"Terry Caton" > wrote in message
...
> Surely I'm not the first person to wonder how sweet it would be to have a
> heavy cast iron grill grate in a standard Weber kettle, instead of the
> stock, light-weight stainless steel grate that has zero heat capacity.
> Unfortunately, I haven't found much information on it other than Weber
> itself doesn't make one. Has anyone found any 3rd party companies that do?
> Can a reasonably decent metal-working shop fabricate one (at a reasonable
> expense)? A Weber kettle with a cast iron grate would truly be the perfect
> grill...
>
> Cheers,
> Terry
>
Weber used to make a cast-iron grate for the kettle. It was a modified
nickel grate that you could drop a cast iron or porcelain-coated cast iron
grate into. It was discontinued about two years ago, but it seems an easy
mod to replicate this by modifying a nickel grate and using a replacement
PCI grate.