DIY multi-level cook of ribeye steak and couple of veg (with pics and a cat)

Stormbringer

A recent cook bought some multi-level cooking into play. Whilst having a PSWoo or AR would be most convenient, I made do with a more hands-on DIY approach ... couple of extra grids and some SS nuts, bolts and washers.

The aim was to cook mushrooms, sweet potatoes and reverse sear a rib-eye steak all on the LBGE.
The ingredients were separated with sweet potatoes in a lined 15 inch cake tin and the mushrooms in a lined square Weber veg tray.



I then checked that the Weber tray could stack above the sweet potatoes. The Weber tray was held up on a mini BGE grid (10 inches) supported by some bolts:



Experience had shown that sweet potatoes take longer than a 2 inch steak, whereas mushrooms take about the same time. So I cooked the sweet potatoes alone with the top open (grid in place ready for the mushrooms) at 135C/275F for 30 minutes. At this point I added the mushroom tray, wrapped the two layer veg contraption in kitchen foil and placed it underneath a raised grid holding the steaks:



This cooked for around 1h30m, by which time everything was pretty much perfectly ready. Steaks foiled and tented, platesetter removed, veg removed and towelled with the steak tent.

LBGE up to 550F/285C, seared the rib eyes for 30 secs each side including edges.




Above shot is from SWMBO, she takes great steak close-ups. No decent picture of the meal, we were too busy enjoying it:



Even the cat wanted to get some:

Carolina Q

A man after my own heart. Nuts, bolts and misc odd sized grids.  

55Kevy

+1 for cat tax!

pgprescott

Magnificent! 

Ima_good_egg

Beautiful!

bgebrent

Nicely done brother.

Stormbringer

Carolina Q said:

A man after my own heart. Nuts, bolts and misc odd sized grids.  

Cheers! I've been working on getting a sliding arrangement going similar to the CGS setup using drawer slides on their sides, attached to the top grate. If and when it works I'll post it here. One restriction - I'm not allowed to use any welding equipment ... at least according to SWMBO.

chuckytheegghead

That's a feast!