Quote Originally Posted by crossxfire2 View Post
wait, what is the point of this process?
To turn your live rock into a clean pallet. Its basically 'curing' live rock to the extreme. It is popular for those who run bare bottom tanks, since the cooking process removes a lot of detritus from the rocks. Plus there will be no more nuscience algea remaining. Although the algea and pests will be removed, the live rock will remain very active with bacteria.

You can always search for 'cooking live rock' on ReefCentral and you will find a lot of threads about it. Here was my learning experience:
http://maast.org/forums/showthread.p...ight=live+rock

**NOTE** This is a great way to remove annoying green star polyps!