Smoking Z Cornbread, Yes?

The Thassos marble disk survived the heating up of the charcoal without bursting, but I did wear saftey glasses that first try. I oiled and heated the frying pans up in the oven with the other pans. I was making a whole batch of cornbread, but when they went back in the oven the frying pans went on the hot marble of the now hard smoking grill. 

The gap around the edge of the grill was to allow  the smoke up to cook and flavor the corn bread, while the marble was supposed to shield the pans from most of the direct heat. 

The frying pan handle was too long to allow the top to close all the way down, but it balanced well enough to not fall off.

I wrapped the whole grill in foil and let it smoke for about 10 minutes (as long as we'd been giving burgers on one side).

At that point I pried the smallest portion up to check the bottom and found it was already a little too dark. Since the big pan was looking barely brown I moved it to the 425 degree F oven where the other pans had already been cooking for 10 minutes and let them all cook for another 15 minutes. I pulled the mini loaves and sticks then the frying pan. It was all great. The skillet cake wasn't very thick, but it was golden on top, and not too dark on the bottom. The hickory smokey taste was surprisingly subtle and definitely                                                    worth another go.