So I finally broke down and installed one of the High Que grates in the green egg.
I have read everything about them on this forum. So I fired up the electric lighter and waited. At the start, did not seem to make a difference, then .. it started to warm up very quickly. I had to slow things down as I was doing a 250 deg cook. Then trying to speed things up due to lack of time, I opened the vents some more. Then it started to heat up quickly again. The fire becomes quite hot quickly.
So, in summary this thing works great. It does exactly what is advertised. My word of caution is that if you do buy one, keep an eye on your temperatures and the fire. Things change much quicker than you are use to.
Overall an excellent product and wish I had bought this as one of my accessories.
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I have it for my large and I don't get a lot more lump falling through than the original one. BTW, I love my High Que. Great for low and slows or hot and fast cooks.
That's why I made my fire grate out of 9-gauge expanded stainless steel. The crosshatching prevents anything but the ash and fines from falling through.
On my XL, I used two Weber cooking grates sandwiched together, with the rotation 90 degree apart. Tack weld it and you have a crosshatched fire grate for $18. I would have rather made one in expanded stainless steel, but that would have been an expensive cut of metal with a lot of waste on the corners.
What kind of temp controller? Does it have a big enough opening that the egg is just drawing air through it without the help of the fan?
Would you be interested in selling your medium HiQue??
I have High-Que on both my Large and Mini.
Great!
I have the High-Que on my large and medium...they work great. I use the Stoker on my large I can maintain 235 at grate...been using this combination for a couple of years no problem at all. I have not tried the stoker on my medium yet. If you can't maintain low temps with the High-Que I would suspect a leak however I ran mine without a gasket for a year and was able to maintain the low temps...maybe the controller is at fault? Regards, Bill
If they did, it would be very expensive. It's three times the metal of a large grate.
I ran the numbers for my expanded stainless steel ones--I would have to charge close to $100 to cover everything and ship it. There's enough wasted metal to make a Large grate--unfortunately it's in couple dozen pieces.
When customers inquire, I just tell them to go to Home Depot and get an 18" Weber cooking grate for $8.97. Mine has made it two years so far.