I did wonder, plaquė bois?
I don’t think the stone is ‘singed’. It’s simply been coated or infused with a partially combusted fatty/carbon compound. Get the stone hot enough and the residues will burn off.
Umm! Why don’t they just supply a stone that’s only a stone… No need for any decorations? And possible health hasards?
Cost…
That is not the stone. Those are the wooden paddles to place the pizza in the oven to cook. JaneJones obviously left her paddles and instructions inside the oven whilst heating it.
On YouTube and Amazon there are many comments to say the stone will discolour, but it doesn’t affect performance. The bits of cheese and topping which spill all burn off at high temperature.
@JaneJones. I bought some 3mm plywood to make a second set of paddles so I could prepare 2 pizzas at once. You can use your burnt paddles as a template for the new ones.
At 1min10 in this video you can see how to use the paddles and the slight dicolouration of the stone after use.
Indeed. I was referring to what has happened to the stone…
I think they just get very grubby, I have a rectangular stone and oh dear it looks awful.
But on it’s first outing is a bit shameful!
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Looks clean compared with our pizza stone
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Its about how good the pizza is not about the stone. 
Flashback time… to our favourite Italien Restaurant… he cooked pizza in an open. domed wood stove. It was clean but certainly not the same colour as when it was first put into action…
I think your “gadget” looks great and so long as the pizza tastes good, who cares about the rest…
Looks like a work of art, from my not so artistic eyes I see various feminine traits thighs dress a face and a ducks head and neck. I wonder what our resident art specialist thinks @DrMarkH
Maybe worth a bit if exposed in a New York gallery.
But the pizza looks a delight 
Yum! I’m curious as we’ve been talking about possibly getting one. We love very loaded pizzas, do they cook in these machines or a disaster?
A guy was at St Astier market last week with this one. Wood pellet or charcoal fired. What does yours run on?
Electricity! Those posh things look great but all the ones I’ve seen cost a fortune,
If you are not as clumsy as I am then will probably do well. Even with my mini-mess my first experience of the Ariete was great. Even better we reheated the left overs for lunch the next day, and they didn’t get dry and nasty as they do in the oven.
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It is electric. 1200W. Less than 100 euros too. See the discussion on the 25 Jul on this thread. And the link to Amazon and the YouTube videos if you need convincing. I think it is brilliant as do the other 5000+ reviews on Amazon
As for loaded toppings, I am sure it will cope, and the crust will definitely be firm and crispy. There is a limit to the height. If you make pita breads they puff up you have to pop the bread after about 2min to stop it hitting the heating element
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