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A Great Grate Lifter

LBH
LBH Posts: 50
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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. 


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  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    I use a very old hand-held garden hoe for my CI grates or just use gloves for the round ceramic grate. 
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  • OhioEgger
    OhioEgger Posts: 994
    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.
    Cincinnati, Ohio. Large BGE since 2011. Still learning.
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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 17,367
    Doubles for home dentistry, too.   ;)

    “All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.”

                  - Mark Twain 

    Ogden, UT, USA


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  • LBH
    LBH Posts: 50
    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.  
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  • LBH
    LBH Posts: 50
    Sorry again.   I can safely lift a 400+ degree grate.  
    Kinda painful with bare stainless wire 6" high.  

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  • Ragtop99
    Ragtop99 Posts: 1,570
    Third hand tool is awesome.  Use it every cook.  Simple and functional.  
    Cooking on an XL and Medium in Bethesda, MD.
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  • Toxarch
    Toxarch Posts: 1,900
    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.
    Aledo, Texas
    Large BGE
    KJ Jr.

    Exodus 12:9 KJV
    Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

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  • Mickey
    Mickey Posts: 19,768
    Guys: where you sit your lump is a grate. Where you sit your meat is called a grid.
     
    Salado TX & 30A  FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Just given a Mini to add to the herd. 

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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
    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. 
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 13,701
    I picked up one like this on clearance for under $10 monopoly money, love it...

    canuckland
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  • pgprescott
    pgprescott Posts: 14,544
    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. 
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  • piney
    piney Posts: 1,478
    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.
    Lenoir, N.C.
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  • caliking
    caliking Posts: 19,780
    I use a scrap piece of flat aluminum bar to lift grids. Cheap and effective. Got the idea from lawnranger's grid lifter. 

    #1 LBGE December 2012 • #2 SBGE February  2013 • #3 Mini May 2013
    A happy BGE family in Houston, TX.
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  • LBH
    LBH Posts: 50
    Earlier this month I used my grate lifter to replace my kitchen faucet 
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  • Skiddymarker
    Skiddymarker Posts: 8,528
    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. 
    Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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