GrillGrate17.375 Inch Hard Anodized Rectangular Grill Surface Kit - With free Grill Tool

Got these the next day as it is a prime item so once again great service from Amazon.So these grill grates are they worth the hype?In short yes absolutely, they work amazingly well for gas grills. I already have a high end grill but with these grates my grill is a whole different beast. My grill now gets hotter quicker, saves gas and cooks everything evenly with restaurant quality sear marks and results.These grates aren't cheap but they are definitely worth the price.

Reviewed this item before purchase.... believe all the rave reviews people... if you BBQ without a set of these, you are in amateur-ville! It really does improve your BBQ results... Best buy for the barby... seriously!!

Work very well. Comes with a handy book with great recipes. Couldn’t be happier with my purchase

Definetely worth getting for a gas BBQ to avoid those nasty gas burns and flare ups. An absolute must have for the serious BBQer.

For those who love BBQ food this Grillgrate is a must have! I tested with sausages and not even a flare-up and cooked perfect

Great item!

Brilliant

I brought these grates for my barrel bbq and it has improved the cook and finished look of everything i have cooked! from salmon,lamb,ribs,briscket,steaks and chicken!also when you flip these you are left with a flat surface to cook on which i use to cook my asparagas and sweetcorn.couldnt be happier perefct buy!

Produkt ansich dass beste was ich Kenne! Perfektes Grillergebnis! Passt perfekt auf Weber Spirit! Es reicht schon auf kleiner Flamme um auf Temperatur zu kommen! Spart extrem Gas! Ein Stern Abzug weil man nicht richtig über Versand nach Deutschland informiert wird. Hab die Grates 2x bestellt und musste knapp 50 Euro zusätzlich Einfuhrabgaben entrichten! Sonst kahm der Artikel pünktlich. Top!

they feel well made

Produit très bien

Prodotto perfetto come da descrizione e consegna con 2 giorni di anticipo. 👍👍👍

This review for the 17 3/8" GrillGrates + "spatula" toolI put the pair on my Weber Genesis Silver C, and then came back and bought 2 more grates. This is a perfect fit to replace the stock grates on that Silver C. These grates also fit my 27 year old Weber Genesis Junior (3 grates with about a 2" gap).Most of what can be said about these grates has already been said in the many product reviews here. However, I'll add a few comments for things not often discussed...1. Although I've seen "cautions" that these grates get hotter than stock grates, I do not find that to be the case. The cook times and flame settings are about the same as the porcelain coated cast iron grates that I've used for the past 11 years on this grill. Using a thermometer about an inch above the grates, the temps measured are slightly lower (about 10F) than the cast iron grates - those measurements taken with one of the cast iron grates in place, and 2 sections of GrillGrates. It is possible that having 4 Grillgrates in place might change that but as I said I don't need to drastically alter my cook times or flame settings. Not a bad thing at all, just an observation inconsistent with what I generally have read about these grates. YMMV.2. To some extent I was concerned that this was a solution in search of a problem. I've always done well with my cast iron grates, and as long as I did minimal cleanups and kept the drip pan free of old carbonized debris I never had problems with flare ups. However....3. What I have noticed is that the grill catch pan no longer accumulates much if any burnt debris, nor do I get much debris in the channels of the grill grates. Even with bone in chicken, which I always believed was "the worst" in terms of generating burnt debris that needed cleanup.The underside of my chicken breasts are cleaner now, with little or no burning, which I guess came from very momentary flare ups that last only a second or two.4. These grates are truly non-stick, and make grilling fish (as well as everything else!) a pleasure. If you've grilled fish, especially salmon, you know that it is a race against time, waiting for the grates to release the fish for the first turn before the fish is overcooked. I have a Weber cookbook that suggests cooking salmon for 7 minutes or so on the first side (meaty side down, skin up), and then finishing skin down for the remaining 3 minutes or so, but "skinning" the fish off the grill leaving the skin stuck to the grill, as it will be on cast iron after only a 3 minute sit.So I went out and bought a side of salmon at a good price at a local warehouse outlet, not realizing until I got home that the filet was skinned! So I had a problem, or I would have if I had used my cast iron grates. But I did the flip after 5 minutes, with no resistance at all.I later tried cooking very thin Whiting and Swai filets on the grates, partly just to see how they performed with very thin delicate fish. No stick. This alone is worth the price of admission. Cooked some catfish last night, just perfect and again no stick. Same with Red Bell Pepper strips, asparagus, sliced Russet Potatoes, burgers, chicken, ... everything I've thrown at it. If something does stick a bit when lifted shortly after being laid down, the special tonged spatula tool really does work. If you order these grates, then definitely get a kit with the tool.5. Because these grates are only 5.25" wide you can set up many different configurations, even if replacing grates. My Silver C is 24" wide. Four Grillgrates are about 21" wide, leaving a 3" gap. That gap is very useful, especially for making smoke- one of the biggest problems I had with the cast iron grates. That gap lets you drop a wood chunk right on the flavorizer bars, or maybe feed chips into an open topped metal box sitting on the bars. Or replenish a small water pan. I could cook with 3 grates, leaving more space, or I could buy a 5th grate and rip it down to 3" or so for complete coverage.Because the GrillGrates are almost solid it is probably a good idea to maintain a gap when doing indirect grilling, promoting better circulation of heat. But for direct max searing it might be better to fill the gap? That is a future project :-). But more on that later.If you do have to lift a grate to tend to a wood box or water pan, they are much easier to deal with, being narrower and lighter. You could, for example, leave one panel "disconnected" and not locked into the adjacent panel, or you can swing the end panel up enough to get in there. Just generally more options for dealing with smoke and water replenishment, no matter how you go about it.6. I've had very good success flipping the GrillGrates over, with the flat surface facing up. This makes for something like a "perforated griddle", letting fat and grease drip down but not letting food through. You will get a seriously fast sear with the lid down, so don't do that unless you are watching things very carefully! With the lid up I've had good initial success searing most of the surface of various meats. I usually have two grates face up and two face down so I can pick my surface for various foods and cooking stages (indirect phase on the ribs, and final searing on the upside down grates).This would work better with newer grills with front to back burners. My older Weber has side to side burners (controls on the right side). My problem is lack of space when I only have two grates flat side up, and I don't want all the burners on.AmazingRibs dot com, where I learned about these grates, promotes the idea of searing with the lid up to allow time to get a good sear in place without overcooking the inside of the meat. As he discusses, this is problematic with a gas grill but I've had good initial success on these grates. And filling that 3" gap might help here, trapping even more heat below the grates. Something I hope to try down the road. However, it may be a solution in search of a problem because I am generally getting the sears I want, and I'm getting better at it. If you have trouble with this, try a *very short* lid down sear but it is easy to overdo that.7. Because these grates seem to distribute heat more evenly they will probably improve my old two burner Genesis Junior, which has the same 17 3/8" depth, but only two burners tight to the front and back. When cooking direct, that left quite a gap and was the main reason I upgraded to the 3 burner Silver C. I have not had a chance (really a good reason) to fire up the Junior yet with these grates- that is another future project :-). And I may buy another set just for that grill. It would simplify cooking veggies or other things at different temps, when even a 24" wide grill can be too cramped for even a meal for two.8. Cleanup... these are easy as long as you accept that these are grill grates and not your indoor roasting pans. People that complain about cleanup are trying to get them back to the out of the box "silvery" look. I just scrape the rails with either an old grill spatula or the scraper on my stainless brush, and/or a wet scrub pad with leather grill gloves when hot. Debris comes off the rails easy, but I let them stay patina'd. I use the GrillGrate tool to clear the channels of any debris (mostly wood chip residue because food leaves very little debris). Followed by a quick scrape with a stainless paint stripper brush about as wide as the channels.Cleaning the underside that I use for "flipped over" grilling is a little more problematic. Those grates are partly black, and what is on there is not easy to remove in some places. I just use the paint stripper brush to get caked on debris off and leave the black patina in place. AmazingRibs dot com suggests using dedicated grates for flipped over grilling on the bottom. I think there is some wisdom in that, but I am cheap, and sometimes I flip the grates over during a cook. So I will see if modest cleaning works over time. I've thought about using a stainless wire wheel on a hand grill but that could be rather messy.Whatever, for normal rib side up grilling, these grates are easy to clean and maintain. And, since they are not coated with anything, no worries about overly aggressive cleaning. The biggest problem I had with porcelain coated cast iron was chipping off the porcelain and that probably happened while cleaning. So I was always trying to thread the needle with gentle cleaning. I never got more than 3 good years from my cast iron before they started rusting. My last set looked like a 300 year old boat anchor hauled up from the ocean floor. These grates should last more or less forever?And because they are uncoated they can be cut and trimmed as needed without worrying about exposing underlying steel or cast iron, which will lead to rusty ends.9. And finally, GrillGrates is a small company with a very enthusiastic owner/operator (Brad). He was very helpful with my several follow up questions regarding the use and operation. It is always a pleasure to buy products from or made by a company like that.Edit: After 11 months, these are still a 5 star product. I could never go back to stock grates. I grill several times a week during the warm months (sometimes every night), and as often as possible in the bad weather. These GrillGrates are still going strong. And it is just far easier to cook great tasting food on these GrillGrates!I do about 80% of my cooking with the grates flipped upside down (flat bottom side up) because for most things I like a fully seared meat surface, not just pretty sear stripes. CARMELIZE TO EXCESS!!!!After almost a year, the cleaning technique I described above is still working. The grates are very patina'd, on both sides since I cook on both sides. The top rails are still easy to clean, and the bottom side, well, the patina adds to the taste :-). Mainly just keep the excess carbonized gunk scraped off.And over the course of the year I have had zero flare-ups and spend a lot less time cleaning out the flavorizer bars, cook box and catch pan. So it saves a bit of time. You'd have to do nearly zero cleaning under the grates, on a Weber gas grill, to have a flare-up problem.Now I need to get another set of grates for my Genesis Jr, so when I use that grill I don't get a let down having to cook on the enamel coated stock replacement grates. And for me, since both grills take the same 17.375" grates, I can also more or less dedicate one set of grates for "upside down" use and one for normal rails/fins up use. That will save about a 10 minute smoke-off when the grates are flipped. Not a big deal but a great excuse to outfit my Genesis Jr properly!I also want to add that last year I broke down and bought a Thermopen instant read thermometer. That and the GrillGrates are the best accessories I've ever bought for my grills. Using the Thermopen, I am very aware of any differences in doneness as I am cooking multiple pieces of food, such as chicken breasts, burgers, etc. Although I do try to "rotate" things on the grill, just to be sure, I've been very happy with the evenness across the grates. No serious hot spots like with the old enamel coated Weber cast iron grates. It takes a lot of aggravation out of grilling, and why I'll never go back to standard grates. All that GrillGrates marketing mumbo-jumbo is apparently for real :-)