Morning all,
My first post here, and looking for a little advice if anyone can help!
I'm a charcoal supplier up in Lancashire, and I've been approached by a customer who is in the process of converting an old mill building into a charcoal grill restaurant. This is all fairly new to him by all accounts, and he is building three cooking grill things - sorry there's probably a technical term for them - into the place. They are being built up using reclaimed bricks from the mill, but then he's thinking about lining the cooking pit - or whetever it's called - with something, and he's after advice about what he should use.
His thinking was that steel may end up burning through with almost constant use? I know that there are a hundred and one different grades of steel - though whether any are suitable for this application I honestly have no idea.
A thought that sprang to my mind was having an iron bed cast for him? One of my stove installer contacts has a relationship with a bespoke foundry near Leeds and they could probably knock something up.
Another idea was some sort of firebrick or other ceramic - a bit like the linings in a woodstove I guess.
If anyone has any ideas or knowledge of this sort of thing, and would be willing to share - I'd be very happy to listen!
Thanks everyone,
All the best for now,
Andy