I bring the fire up to the cooking grate to not lose cooking area vs a smaller cooking grate down to the original charcoal grate. I can't find a pic but 3 or so inches below the top 21" cooking grate in my
Akorn are three brackets to hold the
Akorn smoking/pizza stone. There's a hack to get a 17" charcoal grate for a 22"
Weber kettle that fits perfectly on it for a 15" pizza stone for indirect cooking. I put the pizza stone on the cooking top grate fot pizzas. This lower 17" grate is also a charcoal grate for steaks/chops etc. You can measure the tapering diameter down to where your original coal grate is and find 9, 11, 13 ,15, and 17" charcoal grates at Home Depot, Menards etc where I got mine that fits where it stops in your lower tapered diameter. I found this pic with the grey ash on the bottom stock grate, then the 17" grate above it, then the cooking grate then the elevated cooking grate.
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