What could I do with this chiminea grate?

DoofusOfTheDay

Our old cast iron chiminea finally rusted out, so scrapped it.  However, there are 2 half-moon grates that I kept for now, thinking I might use it in my Egg for some reason?  What could I do with these?  Clean up one and season it to use for grilling steaks?  I dunno.  Again, have 2 of them.



It's not a perfect fit, but close enough if I had an idea what to do with them.

nolaegghead

sear stuff

Biggreenpharmacist

Whats a chiminea?

DoofusOfTheDay

I present to you, la chiminea.

500

I would make a raised half grate out of it.  Great for holding or delaying the cook timing of steaks and burgers.  When one steak needs to time out of the heat while the others catch up, sort of thing.

DoofusOfTheDay

500 said:

I would make a raised half grate out of it.  Great for holding or delaying the cook timing of steaks and burgers.  When one steak needs to time out of the heat while the others catch up, sort of thing.

Ah that's a pretty good idea in addition to the searing idea.  I wonder how much I need to clean up this thing?

Photo Egg

I say use it as a sear grate. It's to bulky and heavy to mess with as a half raised grate.
Get a heavy duty SS wire wheel brush to mount on one of your hand drills and buff it up.
cool way not to let it go to waste.

DaveRichardson

Wire wheel brush and clean the hell out of it.  Season, season, season, and season again.  With those huge grid bars, that's make an interesting set of sear marks!

Dyal_SC

That will make for some awesome grill marks ... Without even having to rotate the steak 90 deg while grilling.  Perfect and symmetrical.  My OCD likes that.   

theyolksonyou

Dyal_SC said:

That will make for some awesome grill marks ... Without even having to rotate the steak 90 deg while grilling.  Perfect and symmetrical.  My OCD likes that.   

Gotta put the steak at a 45* angle.