Weber #3200 Kettle Warming Rack

[MrHoss]

That's a fine write-up. Used elevated cooking racks before and found food cooked faster on them and had to conclude that significantly higher temps were the reason. Your scientific data backs me up. When I have a whack of the same or similar food to cook and the space afforded by 1 Kettle is not enough I do not reach for a elevated grate but rather another Kettle. Any excuse at all is good for me.

[Matt_T]

I knew it!! Well kinda, I assumed it...

Thank you for putting in the effort it took to get all of the exact temp readings. I just have one question - did you cook anything while you were at it or was this done in an empty kettle? My thought is that if you had slabs of meat over the coals at the grate level that they would draw in more of the direct heat and 'cool' off the lid and WR readings but I could be wrong here.

Grate work @addicted-to-smoke and @chuck s

[addicted-to-smoke]

Hi Matt_T,

No, I don't recall us cooking anything during the temp testing but you're right, food is a major factor in machine temp ... for a while at least.

For this, we wanted a baseline scenario so that we'd know what to expect overall. Thanks for the kind words.

[joness105639]

these are availible separately at the weber factory parts store in palatine btw.

[bama bbq]

I'll never understand why Weber markets some items and decides not to market others.  It's bizarre.

[Swamp Yankee]

Great write up! I ordered one of these before I'd even assembled my grill - they are still available on Amazon.

[MikeRocksTheRed]

I might have just ordered the last of them!   I had no clue they were still available anywhere.

[addicted-to-smoke]

I don't suspect they'll completely go away for a while yet, since they'd have to have them available for the current MasterTouch. IMO Weber kinda shoots themselves in the foot by not making things like widely available when it's already in production for one of their kettles. Maybe 2016 will end the MasterTouch's "exclusive" of it? I haven't checked ereplacements.com for example.

[Swamp Yankee]

I used mine today to cook some yams in foil. It's a handy gadget, well made and it worked like a charm -

and I learned an important lesson when using a rack AND charcoal side baskets arranged at 6 and 12 o'clock: before you put your meat on  the grill, make sure to rotate the grate so the feet on the warming rack don't fall down between the grate bars. I had the grate arranged so the flaps could open over the coal baskets...and the rack tipped when I put the lid on. 

I'm such a newb 

[MikeRocksTheRed]

I used mine today to cook some yams in foil. It's a handy gadget, well made and it worked like a charm -

and I learned an important lesson when using a rack AND charcoal side baskets arranged at 6 and 12 o'clock: before you put your meat on  the grill, make sure to rotate the grate so the feet on the warming rack don't fall down between the grate bars. I had the grate arranged so the flaps could open over the coal baskets...and the rack tipped when I put the lid on. 

I'm such a newb 

Yam down!!!!!  LOL

[Darko]

These racks are available in Canada still.

[MikeRocksTheRed]

There are three of them left on Amazon at the moment.   I thought I had ordered the last 2 last month, but I guess they found some more!