Description
Grill delicate fish, vegetables and more without worry. This flexible wire design adjusts to hold a variety of food sizes and shapes. Holds securely in place while staying elevated off the grates, protecting the food from burning and sticking. Easy to clean being dishwasher-safe. Fits Weber Q 300 and larger gas grills, 18-1/2-inch and larger charcoal grills.
Features
- Flexible wire design
- Ideal for grilling delicate foods
- Elevates food from grates
- Dishwasher-safe
- Fits most sizes of grills
Customer Reviews
Great for Larger Fillets and Small-Medium Whole FishA. Schuler
I bought this about 3 weeks ago and have used it a few times. I'm very happy with the purchase. My high level summary is this is a great, affordable product that will allow you to execute great, chef quality cooking for your favorite grilled fish recipes.Let me get my one negative thing out of the way: the clasp that holds the two side of the metal mesh basket together is a little difficult to open when I'm done grilling. I have a Weber Genesis grill that gets anywhere from 400-550 degrees Fahrenheit on the inside, and fumbling with this hot clasp takes a bit of practice when you want to get the fish out and onto a serving platter easily while it's fresh off the grill. But with a little practice I'm getting better at it. Still, use some sturdy pot holders to protect your fingers and don't let the basket slip and touch tour inner arm or anything. Ouch.Putting that aside, it does a great job with larger fillets and whole fish up to about 2 lbs. I was a little worried when I first opened the box because, unlike other fish baskets, the sides are not really concave when the basket is closed. I was worried the sides would put too much pressure on the fish and squeeze it, especially if I wanted to grill a fillet of something like salmon fillet, swordfish or tuna steak, etc.Not to worry. The tension gives enough to prevent applying too much pressure. Last night I grilled a 1.4 lb.s rockfish (striped bass) fillet to perfection, still moist and fully cooked inside with nice texture and grill browning on the outside. Less meaty fillets I'd probably still use a grill pan instead, like for example, grilling tilapia for fish tacos. (Can you tell I love to grill fish?)For whole fish, you can't go too big.Read more ›
Perfect for those tough grilling jobsNobody special
The curved ends of this basket snugly fit the smaller Weber round grill and would fit the larger round grill easily. Of course it would work on any rectangular grill of sufficient size. It is well made and easy to use. So far I have grilled 3 medium sized trout (the most this item will hold) and a large batch of 1/4" thick carne asada in multiple loads. Honestly, I don't know how I would have managed the carne asada without this reliable snap-lock grilling basket. Next I look forward to trouble-free grilling of a large batch of seasoned prawns.One important rule to successful grilled food is frequent turning on the fire--every couple of minutes or so. So very easy now!Two recommendations:1. As Weber recommends, always spray the basket and the food with oil--I forgot to the first time and the trout stuck and was a bit of a mess.2. Do yourself a favor and get a pair of Aramid or other fire-proof gloves. It makes handling this grilling basket easy and painless.
Great productYonkers Pair
Most grilling accessories are junk, but this one really does what it is supposed to. Putting fish into the basket and removing it is easy and mess-free. The basket is easy to flip and maneuver on the grill. And best of all, the basket cleans easily in the dishwasher.
Great ProductYer man
I bbq a lot, but I've always been a bit nervous about cooking fish. So I decided to do something about that and bought the large Weber fish basket last weekend. Used it for the first time last night - cooked two whole mackerels last night on my Weber Genesis grill.Perfect result, first time. Really easy to use. General tips/comments:1. I absolutely slathered the fish in olive oil immediately before putting in the basket. A few bits of skin still stuck, but very few.2. The basket is most easily manipulated using an oven glove, but if you are moving it around when hot (i.e. turning over, taking off the grill when cooked or unlocking the basket) then you'll need a pretty heat-resistant glove. This is likely to be my next purchase, as my bog-standard oven glove protected my hand for all of half a second.3. The locking mechanism isn't as difficult as some posts here make out. Just make sure to check how it works before you get it hot.4. Fits in the dishwasher. Result.5. Small point, but I did find it useful to have a large wooden chopping board handy for when I took the basket off the grill. You'll need to put the basket onto something, and remember that it is white-hot when it comes off the grill.6. I've seen some comments about how the basket grips the food too tightly and crushes it. Frankly, if you're cooking fish that can be crushed by this basket, then you're cooking fish that's gone off. Fresh fish is very firm and would not be at all affected by this basket. The basket does hold the fish firmly in place - so much so that I'm thinking that I could probably stuff the fish without needing to tie it up to hold in the stuffing.So all in all, I'd strongly recommend this product.
Good BasketK. Parent-Lew
The basket is good. I don't know how they got a chicken in it, it is way tight. We put some large redfish fillets in it and to keep from smooshing (technical word) it my husband put 1 inch thick pieces of wood across the front and back. That worked great.
Good, but a slight design quibbleFillmoe
Bought this for cooking fish on our new Weber E210 gas grill. The plan was to heat up the grill, lower the temp for both burners to medium and begin grilling asparagus in a perforated pan on one side. When that was almost cooked, I put a 1" thick fillet into the fish basket to cook on the other burner. Uh-oh, the fish basket is a little too long to allow the cover of the grill to close all the way when used on one burner only. All cooked fine with the cover propped open by the handles of the fish basket, but making the whole thing an inch shorter would have made the fish basket more versatile.I sprayed the basket before putting in the fish and rubbed the fish with oil, so sticking was minimal. The basket cleaned up nicely in the dishwasher.
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