Problem: Most 18″ ceramic cookers are not really 18″! They only allow 15-16″ of cooking area, due to the thickness of the firebox, reducing your direct grilling capacity by 30%!

Solution: Our Goldens’ Cast Iron Grates for 18″ – 18.25″ lift your cooking surface by 3” and expands your grilling area from 16″ to nearly 19″, upsizing your grill to 347 square inches of cooking area, turning your kamado into a larger cooker while direct grilling! That means more room for more Ribeyes!!! Our grates have cast iron supports that raise your cooking level by 3 inches, near the felt line, eliminating the need for those cheap, clumsy stainless steel rack systems! Our quality American made cast iron grates fit your large and classic size ceramic kamados!

Grate Tool Sold Separately

Grate replacements fit 18″ – 18.25″ sizes, such as the Big Green Egg Large, Kamado Joe Classic II, model VGKSS-CC2, and Kamado Joe Classic III, model, KJ15040921, Vision Grill B-11N1A1-Y2A, Vision Grill VGKSS-CC2.

Traditional steel grates that come with ceramic cookers sit flat on the fire ring and this reduces cooking area from 18 inches to 15 inches. This means for direct grilling your cooker loses 30 percent capacity.

Goldens grates have legs and raises the cooking surface 2 inches above the fire ring. This allows a 18 inch cooker to become a 19 inch cooker utilizing the opening of the cooker to full capacity which gives you 20 inches of cooking space or 347 square inches. The Cast Iron Grate change lets your kamado act like a larger cooker when direct grilling. This allows more room for more Ribeye’s!!!

Our grates have feet that raise the surface by 2 inches, returning your cooking surface to you, giving you that extra inch you always wanted!

Cast Iron Grate Specs:

• Width – 18.75”
• Length – 9.25”
• Height – 3.00”
• Weight – 10 lbs.
• Grilling Area – 347 square inches
• Made in the USA. We produce all Goldens’ Cast Iron products at our foundry and machine shops in Columbus and Cordele, Georgia.
• Grate replacements fit 18″ – 18.25″ sizes, such as the Big Green Egg Large, Kamado Joe Classic II, model VGKSS-CC2, and Kamado Joe Classic III, model, KJ15040921, Vision Grill B-11N1A1-Y2A, Vision Grill VGKSS-CC2.

Most 18″ ceramic cookers are not really 18″! They only allow roughly 15-16″ of cooking space, due to the thickness of the firebox.  Goldens’ Cast Iron cast iron grates allows large and classic size ceramic cookers to be a full cooking area by utilizing its full capacity, giving you a full 347 square inches of cooking area! Goldens’ Cast Iron Grates turn your kamado into a larger cooker while direct grilling. That means more room for more Ribeye’s!!!

And you don’t need those cheaply made stainless steel rack systems that raise your grates. Our grates have built in feet that are 3 inches tall, raising your cooking area to the top! So not only do you get wider cooking area, you get a much higher cooker area, all in a single set of grates! Oh and we don’t notch our grates. Ceramic kamados notch their half grates to fit rack system, further losing precious cooking area!

Also, our half grates weight 10 pounds, while our ceramic counterparts offer only 8 pounds. Why does size matter? Given the thermodynamics of cast iron, it needs mass to absorb the heat off of lump charcoal. So the more mass, the better heat absorption and retention, giving you that perfect professional sear that you always wanted!

Goldens’ Cast Iron also produces grates for our cast iron 20.5″ and 14″ kamados too! So if you don’t have our quality cast iron kamado, you can have real cast iron grates for your ceramic kamado! Tired of your ceramic kamado? Join the Iron Age!

Grate Tool Sold Separately

Shipping from our foundry is 10-15 business days from the day of order.

NOTE: when placing your order, be sure to include complete shipping address and phone number to assure accurate and prompt delivery.

All sales subject to appropriate sales tax. Once your accessories have been delivered, inspect them upon receipt. Do not accept delivery if your order is not in a box and/or if you see any damage to your accessories.

RETURNS:

For all cooker and firepit accessories orders, you may return any new, unused and resalable accessories products in their original packaging for a full refund (minus all shipping costs). In the event that  cooker or firepit accessories have a defect, please submit photos of the defect to enable us to determine the extent of the defect and the most efficient means of resolving the problem. Photos should be emailed to info@goldenscastiron.com within 24 hours of delivery of the product. Also, please review our Limited Lifetime Warranty before submitting your request.

DAMAGE:

For all cooker and firepit accessories orders, in the event that a cooker or firepit accessory has been damaged upon delivery, please submit photos so that we can determine the extent of the damage, in addition to filing a claim again the carrier, if they are at fault. Photos should be emailed to info@goldenscastiron.com within 24 hours of delivery of the product. Otherwise, you forfeit a reshipment.

Before all shipments leave the foundry, we take a plethora of images of your shipment in pristine condition. So it is your responsibility to make sure you properly document damage immediately upon delivery. You also have the right to refuse the delivery if damage is immediately noticeable. Contact us immediately. We will have our logistics team handle the carrier issue while we prepare for reshipment.

Also, please review our Limited Lifetime Warranty before submitting your request.

LOST SHIPMENT

If your product(s) have not arrived and there is an error in shipment, we require that you reach out 7 days from shipment notification. If there is an issue, immediately contact info@goldenscastiron.com to report a missed shipment. At that point, we can trace the item(s) and if lost, we reship and file a lost claim. Beyond that window, it is impossible for us to trace and claim, therefor, impossible to guarantee a reshipment. So time is of the essence for you.