The indirect heat of an oven set for a fairly high temperature (425 to 450 degrees) produces the best results.

What is the difference between direct and indirect heat?

You can create indirect heat with wood, charcoal, briquettes or gas.

The combination of smoke and slow indirect heat makes for good eating.

Thus the indirect heat has the desired effect of browning and cooking the ingredients.

The trick to good baked beans is cooking them very slowly with indirect heat.

ON a grill, the difference between direct and indirect heat is an important one.

If you're using indirect heat, though, the source matters less.

Ribs, grilled slowly for a couple of hours over indirect heat, are amazing, but you lose the time advantage that way.

Continue cooking ribs over indirect heat until they are done, about 45 minutes.