I am with you sschorr, it is not how I cook. It is not at the temps I cook at (for the most part) and I am cooking big hunks of meat, not small pieces of dough.
Also, the original purpose of the biscuit test was somewhat of a rigged test by Larry. One of the only times I thought he was not being objective in his testing. Fast Eddy asked for the test because the PG cooked from the top down and he knew the bottoms of the biscuits would never get scorched -- just like he knew the bottoms of the biscuits would always get scorched along the edges of all other pellet pits. A marketing ploy that benefited him -- and Larry sold his line of pits, so.....