I've been experimenting with Pizza using a raised stone to promote even cooking top and bottom and Using a ring of coals around the back of the kettle for indrect cooking.
On my last few cooks i noticed that arranging and refueling coals with a cooking grate is tricky even with flip up sides. My thought was if i could use a raised rack placed directly on the charcoal grate with pizza stone on the raised grate, I would completely skip the normal cooking grate altogether. There would be the raised stone close to the dome, with open access on the permimeter to allow easier refueling and arranging of charcoal around the perimeter of the kettle.
I saw this online I felt this would fit the bill well:
but while cleaning out my home office i came across two of these:
One Black, one Chrome. Im thinking the crome might be safter since lots of grates are nickel or chrome plated too.
According to the manufacturer they are steel wire. They are as thick if not thicker then the wire on most of my grill grates.
Here is my question:
Would this be safe to use to lift and hold a raised grate? It would not touch any food. The rubber feet in the photo have been removed.
If i burned with a hand torch or let it do a burn off in a wood or lump fire would that burn off any paint or unhealty coatings before use would that make it safer? What about a vinegar bath?
Anyone ever use any non food items like this for grill use. I know we use other hardware (nuts bolts expanded metal etc lots of other grill mods.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.