Weber 70915 Replacement Hinged Cooking Grate

you don't need this for grilling
If you're are cooking mainly burgers, steaks, and chicken you will not need this. However, for low and slow briskets and pork butts it is a must. Just put the meat on one side and leave the access hatch open on the other side. You will be able to quickly add fuel without losing a lot of heat. You can bbq a mean brisket in a weber if that is what you have to work with. This grate makes life so much easier for those long cook times.
Solidly built. Cheap, Functional. Needs some packaging!
Well, not much to say about this item. It's obviously very functional and I'm left wondering why Weber doesn't just make this the defacto grate for all of it's kettles.

It's rock solid steel, quite hefty for it's size I'd say. The hinges are well made and it's quite useful for long-term indirect cooking. Good for party BBQs as well, since you often run low on fuel cooking a lot of meat.

I only have one complaint and since it's not really a product failure, I'm giving 5 stars: The thing needs it's own box to ship in. Mine came in a 4'x3'x2' (1.3m x 1m x .7m) cardboard box with enough airbags to choke a dozen donkeys. Get a grip Weber and give this to your suppliers in a form fitted box so the environment doesn't have to suffer!
You will buy this sooner or later... make it sooner!
It's very hard to deny how useful this hinged cooking grate is, especially for those of us that do a lot of indirect grilling and/or smoking with our Weber kettles.

I have the One-Touch Silver, so I didn't get mine out of the box. I didn't even know this clever grate existed until right after my purchase. If you have the One-Touch Silver (or thinkin' about gettin one) then it's way worth your investment to grab one of these.

Here is how indirect cooking worked for me before this:

Do the usual, start the fire, coals ash over and then pile em up on the sides for indirect cooking. Well, i'm cookin' some ribs so this will take awhile... 45 mins to an hour pass by... crap it's time to replenish the coals. Now I have to take this burning hot grate off, hope my food doesn't fall off in the process, hope I don't accidently burn the dog, set this hellfire piece of metal in a safe place, once it's in that safe place (usually on the concrete slab I call a patio)...
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