Iowa State University Extension and Outreach

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2026-08-18

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Original document

The same extension service behind BBQHQ's grilled-vegetable timings, on baking over a grill. Gives arrangement rather than numbers: indirect heat, made by turning off some burners or banking the charcoal to one side; a pizza stone or cast-iron skillet as the vessel; preheat before the food goes in; and an unusually honest expectation-setting line — 'Grilled baked goods may not turn out the same as baked in an oven. There may be signs of hot spots or browned more than usual on the bottom.' CORNELL COOPERATIVE EXTENSION PUBLISHES THIS TEXT VERBATIM two weeks later, and BBQHQ counts the two as ONE publisher rather than two. The passages are word-for-word identical, including the sentence about turning off some burners; treating a republication as corroboration is exactly the error counting publishers rather than documents exists to prevent, and it would have been easy to make here because the two mastheads are genuinely independent institutions.

Culinary practice, Technical

• “To create indirect heat, turning off some burners on a gas grill will be necessary to create indirect heat. For charcoal grills, move the charcoal to one side of the grill and bake on the side away from the heat. ... A pizza stone or a cast iron skillet are perfect options. ... Preheat the grill. Heat is lost when placing the unbaked items inside. ... Avoid the temptation to lift the lid. Lifting the lids releases a lot of heat.”

  Iowa State University Extension instructs baking on a grill over INDIRECT heat — created by turning off some burners on a gas grill, or by moving the charcoal to one side and baking away from it — using a pizza stone or cast-iron skillet, preheating the grill first, and keeping the lid down.

  What it covers:

  Setup and arrangement only. The page states no temperature and no time for any baked good.

  Cornell Cooperative Extension republishes this text verbatim two weeks later. The two are one publisher for corroboration purposes; see the source note.

• “Grilled baked goods may not turn out the same as baked in an oven. There may be signs of hot spots or browned more than usual on the bottom. As long as they are not over-baked (burned), they will still be tasty.”

  Iowa State University Extension states that baked goods cooked on a grill may not turn out the same as in an oven, and that there may be signs of hot spots or more browning than usual on the bottom.

  What it covers:

  An expectation rather than a fault, and the distinction matters for troubleshooting: this publisher treats extra browning on the base as the normal outcome of the appliance, and only burning as a failure. A reader told their pizza base is darker than an oven's is being told the equipment did its job.

• Dough cooked over fire receives heat unequally: the base sits against conducting metal or stone while the top is heated only by the air around it, so the base finishes first and will burn while the top is still raw if the fire is too hot. A base browner than an oven would leave it is the normal result of the appliance rather than a fault; a burnt one is the fault.
• A pizza stone used on a grill must be preheated over direct heat for about thirty minutes before the pizza goes on it. Weber calls this the key step and attributes both sticking and a burnt base to skipping it.

If this source changes, these are the claims that need rechecking. That is the point of recording provenance per claim rather than per page.