burned bottom when baking and cooking

Unknown

I have had a medium egg for about a year and a half now. I love it and use it year round. But i have a problem. When using the plate setter and putting something on top of the plate setter, ie a pan for baking or for slow cooking, the bottom of the meat or cookies or crescent for pigs in a blanket gets burned before the tops are cooked. I keep the grill at the desired temp but the heat from the plate setter I guess burns the bottoms. Any suggestions? i really enjoy using it for all my cooking but I did a brisket last weekend and though the taste was great, the bottom was tough and hard and burned. Help

Semolina Pilchard

If I understand correctly you are placing the pan directly onto the plate setter. The setter is way too hot for that, you need to have space between the pan and the setter. You may want to put the food grid on top of the plate setter and then the pan on the food grid.

Unknown

would that distance be enough to keep the burning from happening? It would only be the width of the food grate but you think that would be enough? If so I will give it a try. Thanks

SSN686

Morning Bob:

Another option would be to put the platesetter with the feet up and the grid on the feet. This will allow a larger space between the PS and the pan/dish. Or use a few 1/2" copper elbows as spacers on the platesetter between pan/dish and PS. Hope this helps!

mad max beyond eggdome

you should be putting the plate setter in feet up with the grid on the plate setter feet and your baking surface (pan, etc) on top of the grid so there is air flow between your pan and your plate setter. ...think of your egg like you would your oven. ...you would never put your cake pan on the floor of your oven would you?? no!, you put you cake pans on the oven rack in the center of the oven. . ..same goes when baking in the egg.. ..you want your food in the center of the egg, and the plate setter is simply like that plate in the bottom of your oven that diffuses the heat....

Semolina Pilchard

I am not familiar with the plate setter for a medium. The legs on the large plate setter are at least a couple of inches. If the medium setter will only move the pan about a half inch away I would try something else. Maybe use some aluminum foil and make a few big balls that will give you the distance you need. Hopefully some medium owners will chime in.

Unknown

Thanks for all the great suggestions. It makes total sense what you folks are saying. This weekend i will use your suggestions and probably never burn anything on the bottom again. Thanks again. This forum is really helpful.

Semolina Pilchard

OOPS!!! Boy is my face red. I thought maybe the medium plate setters were like the orignal plate setters for the XL and had very short legs. Yes, do like they said, put the setter in legs up and food grid on top.

mad max beyond eggdome

i don't think he understood that you meant feet up. . ..i think bob has his plate setter in feet down and he's butting his baking pan right on the plate setter. ..thats where his problem lies. . ..he needs to have his grid on the platesetter feet up .. . medium plate setter has legs about the lame length as a large plate setter

Semolina Pilchard

I am sure you're correct. I should not have assumed anything.

mad max beyond eggdome

no problem

skihorn

For most baking I do as suggested here - plate setter feet up, grid on top of feet, and pan on grid.

However, sometimes (mostly for pizzas, cookies, breads) I have the feet down, pizza stone, directly on the plate setter and the food on top.

Freddie
League City, TX

Eggerman1

I put my plate setter on with legs up and then the grate and then the pizza stone or pan on the grate, never had a problem with burnt bottoms.

Unknown

Hey Rock Chalk. I wondered why you would put that Outlaw Josey Wales quote, "Nothing good ever came from Missouri" until I saw your Rock Chalk comment. Funny. I work for a tech company in St. Louis and the owner is a true blue Kansas fan alum. I have 2 college age kids that go to Mizzou so we have a good old time dissing each other's teams and schools. I appreciate the egg comment and I understand that you, being a KU fan, don't appreciate the Show Me state. It's probably the Cardinals 10 world championships that fuels those feelings.