Manufacturers of charcoal barbecues, along with many metalworking specialists, offer a wide range of accessories for these devices.

It’s not just about replacement parts; accessories that improve the overall cooking process are now abundant.

We carry several of these accessories, designed for kettle-style barbecues or those with ceramic chambers. Here are some of our favorites.

Kettle-Style Charcoal Barbecues

Three-in-One Cooking Rack – Home Refinements

With this cooking rack, a kettle-style charcoal barbecue becomes a versatile cooking appliance, capable of both grilling and smoking food.

It features a large door that conceals an opening big enough to insert a pizza peel or a large cut of meat.

The rack also serves as an extension. The cooking chamber’s volume is significantly increased when the rack is placed on the barbecue’s bowl.

A second grate can be set inside the appliance, on the upper screws of the rack, effectively doubling the cooking surface. A rotisserie can also be attached to the top.

Charcoal Divider – Mallory

Like charcoal baskets, the charcoal divider must be installed beneath the cooking grate of a kettle-style barbecue.

Once the grate is in place, and before adding charcoal chunks or briquettes to the bowl, the central panel should be inserted into one of the grate’s slots.

The owner positions the panel based on their preferred cooking technique or the effect they want to achieve during the cooking process.

The fuel can be placed at one end of the grate if the panel is positioned at either extremity, making it easy to control the food’s exposure to direct heat.

Hinged Cooking Grate – Weber

The cooking grate on Weber’s kettle-style barbecues features a removable central piece, which is essentially a smaller cooking grate.

This grate can be removed during cooking—though not without some effort—allowing the user to add charcoal, wood chunks, or briquettes.

Anyone planning to add fuel or wood to the bowl during cooking would find the task much easier with a hinged cooking grate.

Once all the food is moved to the center of the grate, the ends can be lifted to allow additional materials to be placed underneath.

Egg-Style Charcoal Barbecues

Cooking Grate Rack – Kamado Joe

Forget the single, standard grate that came with your Kamado Joe charcoal barbecue; opt instead for a multi-grate system.

To create such a system, owners of these barbecues need to get a cooking grate rack, which is indispensable.

These grates—or any stones or plates of various materials shaped like half-moons—can be placed on the large ring or vertical rods.

A round pizza stone can be installed on the smaller ring. If you tally it up, the rack can hold four half-plates or grates plus one stone.

Multi-Level Cooking System – Big Green Egg

The Big Green Egg’s multi-level cooking system, called the EGGspander, is very similar to the cooking rack designed by Kamado Joe for its barbecues.

It comes equipped with stainless steel cooking grates. Other accessories, such as aluminum or cast iron plates and grates, can also be used with this system.

The five pieces in the set can be configured in various ways, with the setup depending on the type and quantity of food being cooked.

Owners of a Big Green Egg charcoal barbecue looking to optimize their device and experiment with it will appreciate this system.

Pizza Cooking Rack – Kamado Joe

Dreaming of owning a pizza oven? Have a charcoal barbecue? You’ll be thrilled to learn you can turn your barbecue into one!

Kamado Joe barbecue owners can do this easily with the DoJoe pizza cooking rack, designed to be attached above the bowl.

It features a small but long opening through which a peel and pizza—even a large-diameter one—can be inserted.

Heat is concentrated in the barbecue despite the uncovered opening, with the ceramic plate attached to the rack helping retain that heat.

Upgrade or Add to Improve

Charcoal barbecues are highly customizable cooking appliances that can be modified to enhance their performance significantly.

Whether it’s swapping out parts for others or acquiring new ones, the changes made are likely to prove beneficial to the cooking process.

Charcoal barbecue owners will undoubtedly see these upgrades as an opportunity to refine their techniques and fuel their passion for barbecuing.