[Hijack alert] :wink:
I had a little guy like that when I was in college 20 years ago. I took it with me one evening when I was romancing a young lady and was going to grill up dinner when we were out in nature. When we got to our destination, I realized that I had cleaned the grate earlier that day and forgotten to put it back into the grill. And by this point we were good and hungry.
Not to be dissuaded, I cut and peeled some green sticks from a nearby tree and skewered the marinated meat I had brought and suspended it over the charcoal by laying my newly-made skewers across the grill the short way. I was cooking hot and fast, and the meat cooked enough before the sticks burned.
Turns out she was duly impressed.