Thank you for your thoughts. I had shiny granite in my last home, and I found it hard to keep clean unless I used window cleaner all the time on it. I drove myself a bit crazy with constantly doing that, and I really wasn't fond of the shiny look. If I get soapstone, I really hadn't planned to oil it, but would let it age and mellow however it wanted to age.
"My 2 cents is honing a stone makes it less of all the things you want the stone for."
This statement doesn't make sense -- in what way does honing make a stone "less of a stone"? Stone is still stone -- and granite is hard, durable, and heat-proof. Honing doesn't make it any less so. My understanding is honed stone may need to be sealed more often, but accounts on this vary -- some people have never sealed their honed stone after the installer's sealing, others do it regularly. Not everyone wants a shiny surface in their kitchen
Thank you for your thoughts. I had shiny granite in my last home, and I found it hard to keep clean unless I used window cleaner all the time on it. I drove myself a bit crazy with constantly doing that, and I really wasn't fond of the shiny look. If I get soapstone, I really hadn't planned to oil it, but would let it age and mellow however it wanted to age.
"My 2 cents is honing a stone makes it less of all the things you want the stone for."
This statement doesn't make sense -- in what way does honing make a stone "less of a stone"? Stone is still stone -- and granite is hard, durable, and heat-proof. Honing doesn't make it any less so. My understanding is honed stone may need to be sealed more often, but accounts on this vary -- some people have never sealed their honed stone after the installer's sealing, others do it regularly. Not everyone wants a shiny surface in their kitchen