How to care for your
Functional Stoneware
Oven use
  • Never use on a stove-top burner or underneath the broiler. Do not use where there is a direct heat source.

  • In-direct heat is the best, like an oven or a microwave.

  • Increase or decrease the temperatures slowly to avoid breakage.

  • Stoneware vessels get very hot and can take a tremendous amount of time to cool off.  
    Therefore, use a pot holder or oven mitts to remove the piece from the oven or microwave.

  • I recommend using the stoneware on the middle rack in the oven for even heat distribution.

  • After baking a deep-dish pizza in a chip & dip or a frozen pizza on a baking stone, please slice with light pressure if you
    use a pizza wheel cutter.  If you press too hard, you could score the stoneware and cause it to snap like tile.  Kitchen
    scissors are the best option to cut your pizza on stoneware.

  • Do not place heated stoneware on the counter directly. Please use a trivet or thick pot holder.

  • Place piece in oven and let it rise in temperature.  Do not pre-heat the oven first.
    (Note: I have used a chip and dip just about every Friday night for deep dish pizza.  I have just noticed that over three years,
    of pre-heating the oven, 'stress cracks' have developed.)


Refrigeration use

  • Do not freeze the stoneware. Chilling the piece is fine, but do not freeze with contents in the piece.

  • Increase or decrease the temperatures slowly to avoid breakage.


Washing & Storing

  • Do not wash a hot stoneware piece. The temperature change could shock the piece and cause it to break.  
    Wait for the piece to cool completely before washing.

  • Please put the stoneware in the dishwasher or wash by hand.  

  • If washing by hand, try not to bang the pieces together.  

  • Treat stoneware just like glass.  

  • After your piece is washed, let dry throughly, then store in a cupboard.

  • When storing, let the air circulate on the bottom of piece where there is no glaze.
    Use the cupboard liners that have the holes in them to prevent unwanted sliding and to allow the air to flow.

  • If possible, store your stoneware items upside down for best air circulation.  

  • If you have plates that have silverware marks left on them, use 'Soft-Scrub' or baking soda to remove those marks.
From Miry Clay Pottery's stoneware
is lead-free, microwave, oven,
dishwasher, and food safe.       
Stoneware is strong but everything has its limits.
Artist Note: Pottery made before 2010
I suggest using a shelf liner and allowing the pieces to air dry completely because I have had the bottom of one
dinnerware plate (the unglazed part) have some mildew type marks show up.  

We had a bottom plate that rarely was used and was probably put away damp.  This is the only plate that I have
had trouble with, and stoneware is the only thing I've used for tableware the last five years.

I used a 1:3 ratio of 1 part bleach and 3 parts water for the plate.  I let it soak in a pan for 4-7 minutes and then
put the piece in the dishwasher.

A spot of mildew showed up on one of my soup cups, and putting it in the dishwasher took care of it in one wash.

If you see some mildew show up, wash it immediately.  Please contact me if this happens.
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