rocklobster
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Hi everyone... I just joined looking for someone who knows this type of system:
The house I bought a few years ago had a built-in BBQ in the backyard. It's a "Grilladier" from the 1960s. It's basically an iron frame with two front doors and some kind of level brackets for iron grill racks and one flat grill. It sits in a brick structure with a clay flue that I imagine is supposed to act as a chimney.
On this frame are 3 of these "level brackets": 1 at the very top, one about a quarter way down the frame, then the last about at the middle of the frame.
The problem is I've never had a clue how to use it properly. I've used it a few times by burning coals on a lower "level" and grilling on the 1st or 2nd level. Grilling on the top level doesn't get hot enough and grilling on the 2nd level is ok but a bit too close.
I figure there's got to be another way it's meant to work. Maybe burning wood on the concrete? (Where the leaves are in the top picture.) The flue placement seems odd too since smoke just goes up, not back towards the flue and up the chimney.
Anyway, hope someone has an idea. Google does not help much here except for finding the (late) inventor of the thing.
The house I bought a few years ago had a built-in BBQ in the backyard. It's a "Grilladier" from the 1960s. It's basically an iron frame with two front doors and some kind of level brackets for iron grill racks and one flat grill. It sits in a brick structure with a clay flue that I imagine is supposed to act as a chimney.
On this frame are 3 of these "level brackets": 1 at the very top, one about a quarter way down the frame, then the last about at the middle of the frame.
The problem is I've never had a clue how to use it properly. I've used it a few times by burning coals on a lower "level" and grilling on the 1st or 2nd level. Grilling on the top level doesn't get hot enough and grilling on the 2nd level is ok but a bit too close.
I figure there's got to be another way it's meant to work. Maybe burning wood on the concrete? (Where the leaves are in the top picture.) The flue placement seems odd too since smoke just goes up, not back towards the flue and up the chimney.
Anyway, hope someone has an idea. Google does not help much here except for finding the (late) inventor of the thing.