The way its supposed to work is that these grates have small holes which do allow the smoke to hit the meat, but greatly reduces chances of burning food by grease fire. As the fire spreads beneath the grate due to the holes being too small for large fires. I would like to buy one but this brand Grillgrate is too expensive for me.
by NoRookieMistakes
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grease fires on a weber is a you problem that no kind of grates can fix.
The lid stops fires almost immediately by starving the fire of oxygen. Just pop the lid on if you’re flaring up.
CharBroil calls this “Infrared” cooking. I freaking love it; you can cook anything without flareups but the grates don’t last too long.
I don’t see how
Cleaning your grill stops grease fires. You’re not going to get fires from just grilling one thing, you’re getting them because the bottom of the grill is full of grease from previous use. Clean it once in a while and make sure the grease trap isn’t full or clogged.
While I believe GrillGrates and The Grate Tool are absolutely amazing, no they do not prevent grease fires. Anywhere that grease can accumulate and overheat you can have a grease fire.
It will help for sure if you’re getting lots of grease fires. The grate will deflect some direct heat it seems, reducing the amount of flame licking the food. It will also reduce the amount of hot fats falling into the kettle basin thereby reducing flare-ups starting and the potential for starting.
But as others have said, it’s better to clean the basin from time to time. If you cook the true “Weber way” (lid down indirect) you won’t ever have any problems with flare ups. Both indirect/2 zone cooking and lid down cooking will work to prevent flare ups.
I have a set for my propane grill, they do help with flareups as the flame can only go through those small holes.
No
No and they are overpriced and overrated.
I did a pack of bacon on mine to test them and they did very good at controlling flare ups
They help until the grease decides it wants violence anyway.
Junk
Any time we cook cheaper burgers on our Coleman grill designed like this, the grease burns on top of that grate. Flame broiled suckers though. Not bad if you don’t get burned. lol