Baking With The Q

Nomad

I guess I could have just thrown the meatloaf slices on the raw grill but it was dark out so did everything indoors.

cbarnhill

This looks wonderful. Weber owes you one. I hope you make it to tabazona. 

Nomad

Cookies...




Now the challange - Trying not to eat them all in one sitting.
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Since I had the grill preheated, baked a couple potatoes also.

Photomom

Everything looks great. We have an older portable grill and I may have to try out your technique.

Nomad

The other nifty thing is both cookie sheet, a large and small muffin pan fit inside while traveling...

Traildale

Christmas quiche and cinnamon raisin scones in a solar oven in the valley of the sun. Mmmmmmmm. 

Nomad

Honey-Glazed, Stuffed Chicken Breast...




Me now stuffed - Must be nap time.

Photomom

Oh, now you're just showing off! :-)

Nomad

I'm just so tickled it works - Camping food is for weekenders, gets old if you're out on an extended basis. I want to eat what I always did. Smores and weenies around a campfire just don't cut it :-)

Normfun

Agree completely. Looks mighty good and I just ate. 

Mercator

PXLated said:

Didn't know there were two sizes - Evidently I'd just seen the bigger ones in campgrounds & that's what the stores I visited had.

There seems to be many different sizes (8,500; 12,000; 21,700 BTUs) available.  Can you tell me what size is your Q grille?

Nomad

Mine's the WeberQ-2000

jcfaber1

I was never one to eat marginally tasting food while camping unless backpacking and the weight restrictions.  We want to eat well when we are enjoying one's self while camping.  I am following this thread, but feel a little bit conflicted since I have a bit of charcoal snobbery and have avoided gas grills.  The simplicity of the gas grill for baking is obvious.  What to do....

John

jkjenn

I am a little confused. Do you always bake on top of both cookie sheets as opposed to putting food in between them? I am assuming no space for food in between them.

Nomad

jcfaber1 - I'm a charcoal guy too. Prefer it. Found it to be somewhat of a hassle carrying charcoal/fluid/chips so ditched it in favor of this. Now when I want that flavor I stop at a good charbroil burger joint.

Nomad

Jenn - Yep, on top. It's all about deflecting the heat around. Found with just one tray it still gets too hot and burns the bottom of whatever you're baking.

Photomom

The (ingenious) tray arrangement uses indirect heat (baking/roasting) instead of direct heat (grilling.)

Ratkity

Photomom said:

The (ingenious) tray arrangement uses indirect heat (baking/roasting) instead of direct heat (grilling.)

I don't care what you call it! Every time I open this thread and see that yummy stuff bird, I start drooling. LOL. 

ScottG

jcfaber1 said:

I was never one to eat marginally tasting food while camping unless backpacking and the weight restrictions.  We want to eat well when we are enjoying one's self while camping.  I am following this thread, but feel a little bit conflicted since I have a bit of charcoal snobbery and have avoided gas grills.  The simplicity of the gas grill for baking is obvious.  What to do....

John

I've got five outdoor cookers, including charcoal, gas, and electric. They all do certain things well, but I can't say the food is better just because it was cooked by one fuel vs. another. The Q is a quality unit, and using gas is clean, compact, and convenient--high priorities for me when camping. YMMV! 

ChanW

PXLated, this research you're doing is greatly appreciated! Wow, looks delicious!

We, also, like to eat well when camping - what's the point otherwise, if we're towing a kitchen?

But of course storage seems to be the stumbling point for us. Our cooler and fridge end up a chaotic mess by the end of a trip. What do you use for refrigeration?

Nomad

ChanW - Just using the 3-way fridge. I always stay within a reasonable distance of a decent grocery store. Drove 35 miles yesterday and restocked the fresh stuff. I usually tie my grocery run to some kind of adventure. Yesterday it was an old, abandoned copper mining town.

ChanW

Sounds like a good plan!

Nomad

ChanW - I do carry some prepared food, canned soup, pastas, etc. so I can go for a week or so on that but prefer being able to get fresh meat/poultry, etc. so kind of plan where I'll be in relation to a decent grocery store. Was in NE New Mexico last year where the closest grocery store was 75 miles (and not really a great store) and the next closest was 125. After that, I paid closer attention :-)

libertyo

And here ya go, for a mere pittance ($499) you can bake a cake while boondocking
http://techcrunch.com/2016/01/07/the-gosun-stove-cooks-with-just-the-power-of-the-sun/

Nomad

$199 + acouple cookie sheets and you can do it all :-)

Mercator

PXLated said:

Mine's the WeberQ-2000

It is time to get a Weber for the summer.  I was looking on-line and the Q-2000 doesn't have a temperature gauge, but I see that yours does, so I just wanted to do a double check.  Could it be the Q-2200 that you have.

Thanks.

Nomad

Could be - Doesn't say on it and I threw the manual ... Got it at either Home Depot or Lowes.

Nomad

FYI - When I bought mine I wasn't thinking of baking - My objective was to get a grill that would stay lighted in wind - Had wind for three weeks and no matter how I tried to shield either the grill or campstove they'd blow out. Got the WeberQ and just lucked out getting one with the temp prob/gauge. Gave both the old grill and campstove way. After that experience I don't know how people with the outside kitchen manage.
One of the best investments I've made - Meatloaf going on here in a minute followed by lemon cookies.

DeeDee

Mercator said:

PXLated said:

Mine's the WeberQ-2000

It is time to get a Weber for the summer.  I was looking on-line and the Q-2000 doesn't have a temperature gauge, but I see that yours does, so I just wanted to do a double check.  Could it be the Q-2200 that you have.

Thanks.

Maybe even the 1200, which comes in T@B colors? 1200 is about $199 and 8,500btu. The 2200 runs about $249 and 12,000btu. I'm guessing btu is important when you are trying to bake. So tough trying to keep up with @PXLated ;-)

Nomad

Paid ight around $200 for mine in Nov. at either Lowes or Home Depot in Lake Havasu City