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Apple Lady's Cake - quick question

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Smokin' Lady
Smokin' Lady Posts: 158
edited November -1 in EggHead Forum
I'm just about to try the Apple Lady's Apple Cake submitted by Wise One. For the set up, it says to put the pan on firebricks or a stone, doesn't mention indirect, so can the stone sit right on the grill? Seems like 400 might be a little high to do that, but I don't know. Also, I don't have a rectangular cast iron pan, so was going to do it in my rectangular steel pan. Anyone who's done this, please let me know if I can go direct. Thanks.
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  • edbro
    edbro Posts: 300
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    Smokin' Lady,
    I have not made the cake but I can't imagine baking anything direct. The mention of the pizza stone also indicates indirect cooking.
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  • Smokin' Lady
    Smokin' Lady Posts: 158
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    edbro, yes, when I went to put the stone on I noticed that it covers pretty much the whole grill on my medium, so I thought I was safe to go that way. Anyways, I got thinking that I'm sure the Wise One wouldn't forget to put an important detail like that in the recipe, so I should have just trusted it! But since it's my first try and company's coming, I didn't want to ruin it. I'm sure it will be fine. Thanks for confirming my thoughts for me.

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  • edbro
    edbro Posts: 300
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    Smokin' Lady,
    Have you used this stone before? If it cover most of the grill then you will have insufficient airflow and/or run the risk of frying your gasket. Do you have a platsetter? The platsetter will give you indirect. Do you have an elevated grid? Would the stone fit on the elevated grid? That would be better.
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  • Wise One
    Wise One Posts: 2,645
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    Smokin' Lady, it's only going to be indirect if you've got the pan on a stone. But you can do it by just putting the stone directly on the grill or you can use a platesetter underneath. I have done it both ways. It really surprises people when you pull this apple torte off the grill.

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  • Smokin' Lady
    Smokin' Lady Posts: 158
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    edbro, yes, I have used the stone before, but usually on top of the plate setter for pizza. I was told it was the one for the medium egg. It doesn't cover the whole grill, but there is only about a 1/2" or less of space around the fire ring. Next time I will use the plate setter as well, because the bottom of my cake did burn, probably also because of the steel pan I used. Guess I should have tried my round cast iron skillet or round ceramic pan. Live and learn. But the top part of the cake that I scraped off was very tasty.

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