Morning David,
I own two of these wonderful grill/smokers and love them.
This is my Hasty-Bake Model 130 and is about 45 years old and still cooks great. I did purchase this one used. The used ones are hard to find as most folks sure hang on to them and they do last for many years if a fellow takes care of them.
This is my Hasty-Bake Model 257 Gourmet all Stainless Steel grill/smoker and it is about 5 years old. I call it my "lottery" cooker as a fellow needs to win the lottery or at least get a second mortgage on his home to own one. This is my pride and joy!
In my opinion, I think this is the very best charcoal cooker ever made. There are many ways to cook on this cooker and it also is setup for a rotisserie and that is a must for my method of cooking. It will pretty much do it all including great direct grilling, indirect grilling, or even both at the same time. I smoke cheese on the cooker at very low temps. I also do my indirect low and slow cooks at temperatures ranging from about 225 to 325 degrees. Does nice poultry at about 300-350 degrees along with many casseroles and other items like meat loaf. It will also bake at the higher temps but not as well as some other cookers. I say this as I know you want it for this reason.
Ok, I need to splain...while the cooker will do these bakes, it take a ton of charcoal to get the temps up that high and maintain them for the time needed to finish a bake. When you look at that cooker, and see how many cubic inches are there from the ground up to the top of the cooker where you want to place your baking, just too much room to heat easily.
Your Weber Performer can be setup to do all your baking and pizza cooks very easily and in my opinion, would be better at this than a Hasty-Bake.
I have about 15 articles on my blog on this cooker with some good information. You can find it here:
http://olddavespo-farm.blogspot.com/search/label/Hasty%20Bake%20%2F%20Classic%20CookerWhen you get to the end of the page, you need to click on "older posts" to keep reading the articles.
Be more than happy to answer any other questions that you might have on the cooker.
Dave
stam@ccrtc.com765-386-2856