Slate Plancha

[ClubChapin]

This looks like a good idea.  A nice alternative to the CI griddle I recently purchased.  I wonder how it compares.  I suppose it must be similar to using a pizza stone, although I wouldn't oil my pizza stones.

4" of lump kicked off by a chimney seems like an awful lot of coal to use.

http://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/cooking-tips/article/how-to-use-the-plancha-method-to-grill-with-slate

[austin87]

It sounds cool, but man, with that much fuel it better be in a beater kettle!

[chefn58]

@austin87

Couldn't agree more.  The kettle pizza oven weber offers in Europe calls for 100 briquettes.  That is a ton of charcoal!

[ClubChapin]

Apart from their error on coal, the idea of using a slate tile from HD I think is worth trying.

[addicted-to-smoke]

Interesting. Plancha refers to a metal, not stone surface. But I'm not sure all of the subtleties matter. For instance, Wikipedia says a plancha is a flattop grill, that being different from a griddle by being heated radially and not with a heat source lined up straight (such as a gasser's tube would do.)

That said, none of our regular griddles heated on a gas stove would be termed flattop grills ...