Need ideas for using my Weber Gourmet Griddle

[Thunder71]

I feel kind of bad, my wife got me this for my birthday and I'm having a hard time coming up with ideas on what to use it with. We're a family of 5 so I'm looking for thoughts on what I could whip up in this bad boy to feed all of us. 

(Grilled cheese is delicious on these by the way, BEST ever as stated by my family.)

I did see the 'loose meat sandwich' thread, and think that would work great in this so I'm going to try that hopefully this weekend.

So what do you say WKC brothers and sisters!?

Here's what I'm talking about:

[LightningBoldtz]

Weber breakfast, bacon, eggs and pancakes........

[Thin Blue Smoke]

Is there enough room to do a sort of Mongolian BBQ? Meat and veggies cooked up together.

Or

It looks like it would work well for fajitas.

[dazzo]

Check out some of the 'paella pan' threads on this site.

You may be able to adapt some?

[Thunder71]

Thanks guys, I'll check into those... I know a wok is on my list for this kit as well, just received the sear grate this week which should be nice.

Oddly enough, the loose meat sandwich thread used a paella pan I believe.

Thinking it might also work well for searing filet mignon then setting them on the grate for indirect cooking to finish. Not that I have ever cooked one before.

[Chasing_smoke]

The loose meat sandwiches are great, I made them again last night. Twice in a week we loved them.

Cornbread would work well in that I bet. Fajitas, pizza and veggie sides as well. Anything that needs a pan will work.


"my kettle is more powerful it will do almost anything."

[HankB]

Grill some veggies on that. Take some zucchini or summer squash or green beans or asparagus or green tomatoes or sweet potatoes or potatoes or ... and grill them on the griddle. It would also be good for fish which tends to fall apart and go through the grates if you aren't very careful.

[Thunder71]

Some good ideas there... some dessert might work as well, I wonder how it would do at caramelizing apple slices?

One way to find out. 

[HankB]

Some good ideas there... some dessert might work as well, I wonder how it would do at caramelizing apple slices?

One way to find out. 

Let us know. I'm not sure apples have enough sugar to caramelize but I bet you could do some awesome Bananas Foster. I made a rotisserie pineapple (following Raichlen's recipe) where you sprinkle sugar (1C sugar, 2 tbsp cinnamon, 1 tsp ground clove IIRC) on the pineapple as it cooks. I bet you could dip pineapple slices in the mix and caramelize them on the griddle. For that matter, the sugar/cinnamon mix would probably work well with apples too.

[Thunder71]

Wow, that sounds delicious! I'm going to have to look that up...

[Peaspurple]

Is it big enough for paella?

[zavod44]

Weber breakfast, bacon, eggs and pancakes........

You better have three of these set ups if you want all that....the thing is like 8 inches across.....maybe fry one tortilla to make a crispy tostada shell?

[Craig]

You could probably rock the loose meat sammys on these I would think. I have the sear grate system and haven't picked up this part yet.

[1buckie]

You can cook stuff most of the way & then set it on the outside ring (in grill safe pots or pans, or on another grill, heated ) to finish up and/or stay warm while other things are cooking.....

Same logic I would use for a multiple piece stir fry on th large wok, so the 1st stuff doesn't get too done & all mushy......
See Here~~~~~>

http://weberkettleclub.com/forums/grilling-bbqing/wok-a-billy/


It mostly shows all the stuff together, but how I was doing it was: cooking meat MOST of the way, then several items at a time, adding in the items that needed the least amount of cooking last......
Over several cooks, I found that sometimes I would take out the first two segments & the meat, while the very last stuff just started cooking, then dump it all back in........

There's no sideboard for warming on these & so it has to get a bit creative.....you have a better setup for a lot of things, 'cause there's a place close to set par-cooked food, in containers or loose !!!!

Have Fun with it !!!!

[Thunder71]

This thing heats up! First go at browning ground beef for loose meat sammishes.

:-)