Texas Turtle
Take a breath!
- Joined
- May 26, 2009
- Location
- Fulshear, Texas
The fire grates on my Silver Smoker keep getting trashed by the heat of the charcoal/wood fires I use to smoke butts and briskets. I was in my local Lowes yesterday and they are clearing out all their BBQ accessories now that summer's over. I found a couple of Char-Broil adjustable lava rock grates normally $29.99 on sale for $7.65 each. These are very heavy duty metal with 3 different legth sets of legs for varying heights. I checked the measurements and they will fit in my firebox perfectly. Question is, since they are intended for ceramic/lava briquettes that probably don't get as hot as direct contact with RO lump and mesquite coals, are they going to hold up? As a bonus, if I use the longest set of legs, I will get an additional couple of inches clearance under the coals so I won't have to clean out ashes so often over a 12-16 hour cook. Any opinions?