You are being overly cautious.

It shouldn't hurt your counters but if you don't want to risk it, put your parchment paper over another pan, cutting board or something like that.

Thank you :). I just have to get the guts to do it! I ended up using cutting boards like you suggested, jdez, but I think I will bite the bullet next time!

Check back with us in a year or two and let us know what outrageous acts have occurred on those counters :) glass blowing, soldering, accidentally lighting them on fire (I have a friend who actually did this, btw. Well, the alcohol on the counter was aflame... Ah, debauchery...). Love your counters, care for them, but USE them, that's what they're there for. And if something unfortunate happens, that's why you bought Caesarstone, and that's why we have Treb. They can be fixed. Enjoy them in the best of health.

I have Caesarstone and bake cookies all the time. I also have a longstanding rule that predates this counter not to put things right off the burner or out of the oven on the counter. It's just second nature to me.

Anyway, that's why I have at least 6 cookie sheets, which I never grease or use parchment paper on. Two sheets are done, put them on top of the stove burners which act like cooling racks. By the time the next batch is done, put the first ones on the Caesarstone and they will cool down super fast. Rinse, repeat.

I don't think anyone would recommend putting hot pans on the CS right out of the oven, but the OP was talking about the cookies and parchment, not the hot pans. There is simply no way they would retain enough heat to damage the counters.

SJ, I agree with you. If a just-out-of-the-oven cookie can damage Caesarstone, there would be a riot.

The thing is, you can't tell people hot cookie sheets are okay, but red hot frying pans aren't, so they (and the stoners) make a one-trivet-fits-all rule.

Agreed, but this is hot cookies, not hot cookie sheets! Common sense LOL.

I have made lots of cookies since my original post, and I have been sliding the parchment paper with cookies directly from the oven onto my caesarstone, and so far no damage :). I came back from a weekend camp with my daughter to find hubby and my son having left all kinds of drips on my counter(coffee, raspberry jam, tomato sauce, mustard, etc). Thankfully nothing has stained. Hubby swears he doesn't see the drips, lol, not sure if he needs his eyes checked?! I was so worried having read so many bad reviews, but these counters are holding up fantastically!

I'm pretty sure hot cookies and hot cookie sheets are the same temperature coming out of the oven. :) But then again we always put things from the oven straight on our corian table growing up and it always looked perfect - the ceasarstone should hold up better!

I think it's more related to how long things keep their temperature once out of the oven? My pans stay hot much longer than the cookies, which is why I remove the cookies from pan to help them cool. I don't think I could put a cookie pan directly on the counter(my mom trained me too well!!), but I'm sure the cookie pan would do less damage than something that retains its temperature longer, like cast iron..

Get a sample to experiment.

"I think it's more related to how long things keep their temperature once out of the oven?"

jcollins84:

You are correct. With solid surfaces, it's the sustained heating of one area and not the other that causes seam failures. If you stuck your solid surface countertop in a giant oven and heated it evenly, it may come out darker, but it would probably be fine. It's asking the top to expand in one area and not another that causes trouble.

It is not coincidence that virtually every heat related seam failure I fix and/or diagnose for a manufacturer is right in front of a duplex receptacle where a heat generating appliance was plugged in.