A Great Grate Lifter

LBH

Back in June when I purchased my egg I wanted a grate lifter.  I did not like the price or single use function of anything I saw.  Cost too much to do a simple job 

Then while searching for something else I came across this!   Wow.  Good price. Works great. Dual use.  All the boxes are checked. 

onedbguru

I use a very old hand-held garden hoe for my CI grates or just use gloves for the round ceramic grate. 

OhioEgger

If you're looking for a grate lifter, I can heartily recommend the Third Hand tool. I've been using it almost since I first got my Egg years ago, and it has been wonderful. The beauty of it is that you can hang it (with its load) on the edge of any nearby surface.

Botch

Doubles for home dentistry, too.  

LBH

Sorry for this
post ......but....
TWENTY SEVEN DOLLARS!!! For two eight inch pieces of bent wire.  Third Hand

My my point exactly! Vice grips with 15" long handles that I can use for dozens of other things $20 free shipping and returns.  Those puppies clamp that grill and don't let go.  

LBH

Sorry again.   I can safely lift a 400+ degree grate.  
Kinda painful with bare stainless wire 6" high.  

Ragtop99

Third hand tool is awesome.  Use it every cook.  Simple and functional.  

Toxarch

I used an old garden hand rake for years. Works great and probably cost under $5. Now I use the grate tool that came standard with the Joe Jr.

Mickey

Guys: where you sit your lump is a grate. Where you sit your meat is called a grid.
 

pgprescott

LBH said:

Sorry again.   I can safely lift a 400+ degree grate.  
Kinda painful with bare stainless wire 6" high.  

There are several grid lifters out there such as the Ott grid lifter, third hand, and the KAB one. They allow you to hang the cooking grids from your table or egg mates. They are the bomb. Ott makes one that lifts the PS too. I can tell you that it is not an issue lifting a 400+ grid or plate setter off the egg with these tools. They also require no fiddling such as tightening and loosening, where to land the stuff, unhooking them, etc. I consider them amongst the top 3 tools on the market because they are used every single cook and they are extremely effective. For the record, I have used nearly every single gadget produced for the egg. Not every one, but close. I cannot more strongly disagree with the OP. I believe you have over thought this one my friend, but as long as you are happy. 

Canugghead

I picked up one like this on clearance for under $10 monopoly money, love it...

pgprescott

Canugghead said:

I picked up one like this on clearance for under $10 monopoly money, love it...

That one is particularly nice for heavy cast iron. Forgot about those and I have one of course. 

piney

I have never figured why you have to have all those expensive gadgets when something like a pair if vise grips, heat gun, a few fire brick (that most people have anyway) will do the same trick. Now that being said, I too, am guilty as charged! I will buy sh*t that I know I don't need and at the end of the day go right back to the simple stuff. I did a demo yesterday and they were pushing the Looflighter, I used an 8 buck Harbor Freight heat gun...guess what was more intriguing.

caliking

I use a scrap piece of flat aluminum bar to lift grids. Cheap and effective. Got the idea from lawnranger's grid lifter. 

LBH

Earlier this month I used my grate lifter to replace my kitchen faucet 

Skiddymarker

Great suggestion, cost effective as well. Given the length of those things you could use them to reach the grate, as Mickey says, the grid is what you are talking about lifting, the grate is where charcoal sits.