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 [1] 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?