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Throw another loaf on the barbie

Floydm's picture
Floydm

Throw another loaf on the barbie

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.

bbq bread
bbq bread

I used one of the 99 cent quarry tiles I picked up at Home Depot a while back.


bbq bread

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.

 

bbq bread

I baked it with the lid on the BBQ, obviously.


bbq bread

bbq bread

The lighter of the two is actually the BBQed one. I think I had my oven a bit too hot.

bbq bread

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?

 

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Ricardo

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

 

 

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Floydm

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. 

 

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carltonb

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