Yesterday, I broke out the
Cobb grill and with 9 briquettes of charcoal cooked a 2.5 lb chunk of beef and then six pork chops. Then I added 5 more briquettes and baked most of a large loaf of bread and then Nate's tiny loaf. The beef and the tiny loaf of bread came out best, but none of it was actually bad in any way. The bread had an issue - I had started baking it in the Cobb, but then Nate wanted to bake his in there so since I had started the oven for the other loaves of bread I stuck the grilled one in there because it wasn't done. It fell quite a bit :( so if I had just made Nate wait it would have been lighter. As it was, I took it to
nikulai and
lukasbrierley 's party along with one of the oven breads. I've kind of lost my touch for bread, been out of practice for a while, so while they tasted good, they weren't particularly fluffy or soft. Ah well. I'll get that back, I'm sure. I've always tended toward heavier breads, and I've always added too much in the way of 'healthy additives', so that's my main problem.
So while the bread that baked in the grill was heavy, so was the cinnamon bread that was done in the oven, so it had nothing to do with the grill, it was all about the bread itself.
On a totally different note, I finally managed to get my MIT paperwork in to fax to Cuan, and I discovered that Achbar had managed to miss the 'signature' line. :( Not sure what I'm going to do yet about that.