Gear and Accessories
Ten things worth owning, in rough order of how much difference they make. The first two matter more than any grill upgrade you could buy.
If you buy two things, buy a chimney starter and an instant read thermometer. Together they cost around $130 and they will improve your cooking more than spending $500 more on a grill.
Weber Rapidfire Chimney Starter
A steel cylinder that stacks coals vertically over a paper or wood-wool starter, so each coal lights the one above it. A full chimney is rea...
ThermoWorks Thermapen ONE
Reads a true internal temperature in about one second, accurate to within a degree. Cooking meat is a temperature problem, not a time proble...
Leave-in dual probe thermometer
Two probes: one clipped at grate level, one in the meat. The grate probe is the important one, because dome thermometers on kettles and drum...
Slow 'N Sear insert
A heavy stainless basket with a water reservoir that converts any 22 inch kettle into a controllable two zone cooker. It walls the coals int...
Weber Char-Baskets
Two steel baskets that hold the coals in a defined bank instead of letting them sprawl across the bowl. Twenty dollars, and they make the di...
Cast iron sear grate
Cast iron holds far more heat than thin plated steel, so it does not drop temperature the moment cold meat lands on it. That is what produce...
Heat resistant BBQ gloves
Aramid-fibre gloves let you pick up a hot grate, move a chimney, reposition coals or handle a whole pork shoulder directly. Tongs cannot do ...
Wood wool firelighters
Wax-dipped wood wool burns hot for several minutes, long enough to get charcoal genuinely caught rather than merely scorched. Cleaner and mo...
Bristle-free grill scraper
Wire-bristle brushes shed, and swallowed bristles cause genuine hospital admissions every year. A coiled-steel or scraper-style tool has not...
Charcoal rotisserie ring
A ring that raises the lid and adds a motorised spit. Constant rotation self-bastes the meat and eliminates the hot-side problem entirely, w...
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