I'm still not ready to make the leap to a brick oven, but I decided to toy with baking on the barbeque today.
I made up a cinnamon raisin cardamom bread to try out there.
I used one of the 99 cent quarry tiles I picked up at Home Depot a while back.
I should admit that I preheated the tile in the oven in the house. I want to bake one loaf in the normal oven as the control, so I went ahead and got the tile hot in there.
I baked it with the lid on the BBQ, obviously.
The lighter of the two is actually the BBQed one. I think I had my oven a bit too hot.
It was fun to try this and certainly good to keep in mind that I could bake even while camping, but I wasn't overwhelmed with the results. I certainly wouldn't say it came out significantly better enough to justify the additional work.
Anyone else tried something like this? Your impressions?
The look good but, Is this a gas or charcoal barbie?
Everytime I want to make bread on my barbie they get way too smokey
My barbeque is charcoal.
A coworker of mine who does more of this does it on a gas grill.
I was actually suprised how little smoke flavor there was in the bread. I expected more.
I have a friend who bought a square shaped webber grill. He lined the inside with 1/2 thick fire brick (he cut them himself) He also took the lid and sprayed it with some heat resistant stucco style material.
His grill can now maintain a 500°F temp for quite a long time. Thus allowing him to heat his baking stone on the grill and not in his home oven.
Carlton Brooks CEPC, CCE Mesa, Arizona