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A Low-Tech Design for a Barbecue Grill with Height-Adjustable Cooking Surfaces
The Bola Grill Master
A Gaucho Grill is an Argentinian style of barbecue grill with a height-adjustable cooking surface. It allows the cook to, relatively quickly, move the food closer to or further from the heat source as desired. Such grills typically look like this:
A company called Bola Grills has developed a low-tech take on the Gaucho Grill. Rather than getting gears or cables involved, their Bola Grill Master simply use two stainless steel rods, gravity, and friction:
The rods have rough temperature demarcations on them:
There's a thermometer in the lid:
The rods can be used to get the lid out of the way:
It comes with two included cooking rings. You'll note that their rims are undulating. This is to give skewers a place to register:
You can fit the rods with an optional tool holder:
You can also connect them with a hanging rod, to be used with a Dutch oven or hanging hooks:
The downside of the system is that you have to put on the included silicon mitts to make the height adjustments (which the company says can be made "effortlessly with a slight tilt"), and that might interrupt your cooking flow.
The upside is the cost. A proper Gaucho Grill can cost in the thousands. The Bola Grill Master runs $350. Even if you add the additional accessories like the Dutch oven/hanging rod ($100), the tool holder and tools ($70), the skewers ($40) and the hanging hooks ($5), you're still not close to breaking four figures.
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The concept is feasible, but the difficulty of adjusting the plates when they're low could be a deal breaker. I don't think it would be safe to put your hands so close to coals like in the last picture without a more serious protective mitt than silicon rubber; something more like aluminized fabric worn when working with castings would be suitable.
If the plates had extended handles, or something you could slot a handle into, it would fix that.