2boysmom
North Alabama
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Has anyone tried baking the pre-made biscuits on the grill? I'm thinking putting the biscuits in a covered aluminum pan and cooking them that way. Wondering if anyone has tried something like this.
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johnna
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Only if your grill is capable of maintaining a consistent temp.
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ladymc53
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"Something like this"....yes. In the fireplace or even over the coals in a campfire. Here's how you do it - it will work the same way on the grill:
1. Put 2 bricks on the grill over the coals
2. Place your pan of biscuits, cake, loaf of bread - or whatever, on top of the bricks (elevating keeps them from burning on the bottom.)
3. Place a large metal bowl over the top of the pan with edges resting on the bricks. This traps the heat under the bowl and acts like an oven. voila! You have biscuits.
I've done a cake and loaves of bread in our fireplace back in Arkansas when we lost electrical power (all electric house).
Another thing you can do over a campfire: Go to WalMart camping section and buy a metal rack with legs (about $12), place it in the firepit over the coals. Place the pan of biscuits on the rack and cover with a metal bowl.
How to tell the temperature: use the old Boy Scout method - hold your hand over the coals and count by 1,000's. When you can't stand the heat and have to pull away (around 3,000) it's about 350 degrees. Works everytime! Enjoy and have tons of fun! Impress everyone!
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kihutson
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You can make an "oven" over any heat: Take a large saucepan and place "spacers" (I've used tuna cans with top and bottom removed - whatever you find to use) on the bottom of the saucepan. Place your cake, cookies, etc. in a round cakepan on TOP of the spacer(s) and place a lid on the saucepan. The spacer(s) will keep the bottom of the cakepan from touching the bottom of the saucepan and provides an indirect heat. The bottoms of the biscuits, cake, etc. do not burn when using the spacer(s).
I used this method many times while living in a third-world country where I cooked everything on a one-burner kerosene stove. Works over a regular fire or grill as well.
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Eagle79
Missouri
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We've baked home made pizza in a similar fashion. We line a cardboard box with aluminum foil and turn it upside down over the pizza pan placed on the grill. Just make sure you run the foil up and over the sides of the box. Otherwise you will catch the box on fire.
We get unusual looks from passers by wondering where we got the pizza!
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Hiker3
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Cardboard Oven
Or try this... it works!
Oops...just saw Eagle79's post...yeah, What HE Said 
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CUTLER6
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I have done it using a Camp Chef Grill Box. The burner under the biscuits was off, and the other burner was on high, basically using indirect heat inside the grill box. In the photo, my biscuits were not quite finished, and also I just spun the foil "tray" around to keep the edges of the biscuits that were closest to the heat from browning too quickly. I also have prepared them in one of the Coleman collapsible ovens, you just need to cover the tops of the biscuits with a piece of foil for the first half of your cooking time so the tops don't brown too quickly. The Coleman oven will cook Grands' biscuits quicker than my oven at home. 
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juliev
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kihutson wrote:You can make an "oven" over any heat: Take a large saucepan and place "spacers" (I've used tuna cans with top and bottom removed - whatever you find to use) on the bottom of the saucepan. Place your cake, cookies, etc. in a round cakepan on TOP of the spacer(s) and place a lid on the saucepan. The spacer(s) will keep the bottom of the cakepan from touching the bottom of the saucepan and provides an indirect heat. The bottoms of the biscuits, cake, etc. do not burn when using the spacer(s).
Would this work using a cast iron dutch oven? I would love to give this a try.
Julie
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kihutson
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juliev wrote:kihutson wrote:You can make an "oven" over any heat: Take a large saucepan and place "spacers" (I've used tuna cans with top and bottom removed - whatever you find to use) on the bottom of the saucepan. Place your cake, cookies, etc. in a round cakepan on TOP of the spacer(s) and place a lid on the saucepan. The spacer(s) will keep the bottom of the cakepan from touching the bottom of the saucepan and provides an indirect heat. The bottoms of the biscuits, cake, etc. do not burn when using the spacer(s).
Would this work using a cast iron dutch oven? I would love to give this a try.
I would think it would work as long as you have the spacers at the bottom of the DO - the heat is fairly even on the bottom from the charcoal. If you do give it a try, please report back!
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Hiker3
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Yes, we make homemade biscuits all the time in the Dutch Oven! Yummy.
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