solid plate for baby Q

Scotty01 · Senior Member

solid plate for baby Q

herbie · Guru

We have just brought the solid plate for our baby Q, what a great addition , now we can cook any thing on baby Q . Found could not cook a lot of things before on it due to the insert not being solid, When useing the solid plate to cook you just leave the hood open and the the solid plate over plate that comes with baby Q. Maybe you all have one already.

KFT · Guru

we have one too and love it for cooking those things you cannot cook on a grill.

I have yet to try cooking scrambled eggs on the plate, fried is ok, use my silicone egg rings great invention.

I always finish the bacon off on the grill area to crisp it a bit, hate soggy bacon.

frank

grill n chill · Senior Member

I bought one and while it did the job but i thought it was way too small. Then i found out that there are two sizes of solid plates for the baby q! One which fits the total length but leaves a small gap along the front, come with two handy lifting tools, the other is to my liking pretty much ok for one person only.

I have been using the baby q quite a lot this week mainly for pizza. When I first started doing that i thought pizza was cooked directly on the stone. Well i was wrong and ruined the stone. Then I tried cooking on an upturned terracotta pot plant dish with the aluminium tray they supply.( although i dont like the idea of cooking on aluminium)....worked well, but now I cook on a thick unglazed paving stone, and that works best for me. I usually heat it up before cooking a little longer than recommended to get it super-hot.

Something i did try a few days ago thats a bit different! I figured that if pizza is so good then why not bread? I gave it a go; its simple enough to make a yeast bread so what I did was half an internet recipe and then made dinner size rolls in little pie baking dishes I have. I made six dishes and decided to cook only two at a time. The first two i cooked at max temp. Awful, uncooked inside, the second two i cooked at three quarter temp. Result? Average to poor. It was the recipe that was wrong, not enough yeast i think. Stopped there and gave up but i am sure bread can be cooked well on the webber, I just havent got it right yet. I will report back one day with a working recipe and method.

herbie · Guru

I posted a recipe for beer bread in the cooking thread on this site. My wife usess this recipe for cooking in the Q.To keep the container off the direct hear we scruch up alfoil and just sit the container on top .Some times we just scrunch up 4 small pieces for each corner of the container we are useing.I guess it trile and error like every thing.I found the booklet that came with it is very basic and does not really cover all the Qs usess.

Delta18 · Guru

Webber recommend cooking with the lid closed ALWAYS.

The small burner which give the economy which is one of the things we love about the Q just don't heat enough to have the lid open. This means you get more of a 'stewing' effect.

I have a cast plate but dont use it now, I prefer the $15 cooking sheets as they are much lighter to carry and cook just as well.

When doing a pizza on a stone I initially have a sheet of baking paper on the stone but after a few minutes when the base has set a bit I remove the paper so the pizza is directly on the stone. I pre-heat the stone for 20 - 30 minutes first.

Cheers Neil

grill n chill · Senior Member

Hi ya.

Neil i tried all sorts of things when i first got the Webber as i am sure everyone does. I suspect, although i am not sure, that Webber themselves have changed the little instruction book supplied with the baby Q, there is much confusion about the method of cooking pizza that would explain things. The right way is always going to be the way thatâs works best for you.

I tried exactly what you suggest but what happened to me is the pizza stone was eventually ruined. Itâs not recommended by Webber that you ever wash the stone or get it wet. Being porous it accepts even tiny amounts of any contaminant. Once soiled its shot as i found out. In the bin it went.

This video from Webber details the exact way to cook pizza, good blog also. I find it the best way for me BUT like i said, the right way is what works for you.

http://simplyjoolz.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/pizzas-in-weber-babyq.htmlÂ

herbie · Guru

We tryed out the solid plate last night on Q to cook eggs, onions and tomatoes ( with lid up of course ) was really happy with the end resault, but would never use this method to cook any type of meat,as yes it would stew.

ParamountCruiser · Senior Member

When cooking pizza follow these instructions from Weber :

The main one is that you can't put the stone directly on the grill, you need to use the Weber Q Trivet, with a couple of layers of foil underneath, and the stone on top. This circulates the air around the stone, heating it up evenly. Then when the pizzas are put on the stone, the bottoms brown up nicely, and the toppings will cook evenly.

grill n chill · Senior Member

Good post ParamountCruiser ! Its interesting for sure and demonstrates what i said i suspected. . The link i posted was of a video from Webber AU and shows that pizza is cooked on the stone while on the plate they supply. Your post suggest the pizza is cooked without the plate and directly on the stone. It demonstrates Webber instruction at the least are confusing. Which is right who knows whats important whatever way we cook them is it works for us!.

Delta18 · Guru

grill n chill wrote:

I tried exactly what you suggest but what happened to me is the pizza stone was eventually ruined. Itâs not recommended by Webber that you ever wash the stone or get it wet. Being porous it accepts even tiny amounts of any contaminant. Once soiled its shot as i found out. In the bin it went.

I am not so sure about the validity of this, the stone I use, although not a Webber Stone says to not use detergent to clean but rather just use hot (boiling??) water to rub off food remnants for the reason you mention.