*PING* Grandpas Grub/ Plate setter for you mini

bubba tim

Greeting Kent. I was playing around with the mini and after talking with you on Friday, I think I may have come up with a simple plate setter for the mini.
Alton Brown used a terra cotta saucer for a baking stone so why can't we use it for a plate setter?
Start with the fire ring removed..

Add a spare grate..

Replace the fire ring..

place a 8 inch terra cotta saucer (from HD) upside down on the grate

then place the grate on the top of the fire ring.

A different way is the place some fire bricks under the saucer. It raises the "plate" closer to the top grate. This should work great for small pizzas.
I know you had talked about lead, but what do you think?

bubba tim

Forgot one.

BTW, Little chef and I were Trexing a porterhouse tonight, I cooked the gasket. Oh well, time for elmers when it cools.

Grandpas Grub

Looks pretty darn good there Tim I think I will pick some of those up. I think I will bring some kiln stilts up from the basement for a riser.

I got home about 20 minutes ago. From 3:30 on I have been driving around trying to find a packer brisket. The only place I didn't stop was sams clup, which is probably where I should have stoped in the very first place. We did stop for dinner. We went to 8 different walmarts and not one had any packers. When I didn't want them they are always there.

What it looks like to me is the meat markets are bringing in cryovac meat and carving from there.

I did find some kobe and in another cooler wagyu - I thought they were the same thing. Heck it was only $55 per pound!!!! I don't think I would cook it, I would frame it.

Anyway, my weekend brisket cook is off - a real wasted day.

Kent

Wanabe

How is the saucer holding up to the heat? It looks like you could turn it over and put a smaller pie tin in for a drip pan.

bubba tim

That may work also, the saucer was on hand. I did two test firing in the large at 650 degrees. Using the tera cota saucer I think will work for Mini Boboli Pizza on the Mini Egg. The tera cota should give off some radiant heat.