Well, he does make a great point about heat, and I hae a rack of trivets I dont think any of them are big enough to take the pizza pan.
My thought about that was this. I have a 4 burner stove. Lets say I was using one pan to make eggs and another to make pancakes, one to make grits, one to make gravy, and i got through making the pancakes, but needed the burner to make something else. You could sit the pan on a trivet to the side, (note to self, duh) but... in my little kitchen, there are often times more things that need to be cooked than there are burners to cook them and I am not ready to go to a 6 burner yet. Counter space can also be at a premium, and I have a fear of taking a scorching hot pan from the kitchen to the dining room to sit it on a trivet on the buffet or the table.... fear of the heat radiating down through the trivet and leaving little black semi circles on what ever is beneath.
Or it could be the wok, that I just remembered I was drying on a burner... as I am writing this, and need to move because I now need to make eggs for wife on a flat skillet. Or the pizza pan and the griddle that I leave in the oven, and my wife never remembers are in the oven when she goes to bake something, and they need to come out and land somewhere. Or finally when you are seasoning your pans and they really need to come out of the oven so some more can go in.
There are work arounds for each situation. But I guess my main goal is have something in a corner in the kitchen that i dont have to bend over and dig through to get my pan of choice. I probably wouldn't leave the pizza pan and griddle in the oven if I had a place to put it, and the griddle would probably come out hot.
It needs to be strong, not too ugly and rather big cause I have about 10 cast iron pieces.
I almost had the idea to get a nice sized tree trunk and carve it out of that... but I dont think it would work with wife. Wife is going to want something that looked like it would be in Martha's kitchen