Baking on a BBQ

[Teeki]

My oven died. Sad panda

So that means it's now much harder to make a freezer stash of lasagna, pies, and more importantly for DH, cakes etc for his smoko. I'd planned on making healthy snacks for DD too once I was on leave, yummy sweets that are still healthy and less processed, but now I can't.

We can't afford a new oven yet but do have a Baby WeberQ. So I can put something in there with the lid down. The problem when using it as a BBQ is that the flame is a ring around the outside so the cooking is very uneven, so I'm thinking I need to put whatever I'm baking in a tray of water.

Anyone got any tips for me?

[AnyDream]

We use our BBQ like an oven all the time. Keep the gas on lowish, it actually heats up a lot in there. We use a pizza stone sometimes to even out the heat, but we have also cooked on top of our solid grill plate, with a baking rack on top so the tray is held off the hottest part but the heat can still circulate around.

[Rouge]

Is it possible to have what you are baking on indirect heat? As long as the temperature is the same it should work fine.

[Snowy Love]

My DH is a Weber fanatic and we've baked on it - there's a cookbook with instructions that I refer to. Basically you put down a double layer of foil and put a trivet on top and then the lasagne. If you're baking pastry you put foil on the trivet too.
Recipe book is called Australia's own cookbook for the Weber Q.

[Teeki]

Thanks Snowy Love, I'll look that up A raised tray thingy is a good idea, I have one that will fit. The only thing I'm not going to know is temps and times, the WeberQ doesn't have temps like an oven. Going to be a bit of trial and error I think!

[Astrid]

Pick up an oven thermometer. It will need to sit near where you will be cooking, but at least it will give you an idea.

[Teeki]

Lol there's an obvious solution! Thanks Astrid