How to use the Napoleon Charcoal Tray

Learn how to turn your Napoleon Gas grill into a Charcoal grill using our exclusive charcoal tray.

[carlwynter]

Excellent video. It was very confusing on how to use or place it, as it came with no instructions. This was very frustrating informative and helpful. Thank you.

[brotherjayblaze]

Suggestion for newer grills in the future to build in a couch or sliding tray underneath for all drippings and for charcoal to protect the burners 👀

[HiVizCamo]

This is actually a nice feature, glad I got one. I have a Prestige P450, and have never removed my heat deflector plates, I've always just laid the tray right on top of them. I can see I could be lighting faster and have more clearance to grill grates, but I've never had a problem. Briquettes are a nightmare in this application, do not use due to insane ash mess afterwards, always use lump. I recently have been using Napoleon Black Stone, and find it quite good.

[wongjefx]

I got one for the Rogue…the charcoal dust drops thru the holes at bottom onto the venti tubes into the gas vent holes.

[TheBarbecueShow]

A awesome feature everyone should add to their Napoleon barbecues.
The added flavor is delicious and it's so easy to use.

[omarmahmood]

Doesnt this clog up the burner holes with ashes from the coal and drippings from food?

[chrismaloney]

Instead of moving the deflector plates, could I get away with laying the charcoal tray directly on top of the deflector plates? I was thinking this would protect my burners from getting debris inside the perforations and clogging up.

[michaelthompson]

Will the burners get clogged with ash???

[brotherjayblaze]

ALSO CAN YOU BUILD A NEW PRO 605 CHARCOAL GRILL……LIKE THE PRO 500 WITH LIGHTS, BELLS AND WHISTLES 👀👀👀👀😃😄

[carstenschenkel]

Hey guys, very smart idea to turn the gas napoleons into a charcoal barbecue. Is want to know if i can use it in my napoleon FREESTYLE 365 SIB ?

[Redridge]

How do you stop the charcoal ash for buidling up on the burners?

[mikecherico]

I have a new Napoleon Prestige and the Charcoal tray appear to be too big to place on the burner, unless I turn it around. I can place it on the deflector notches on the grill but looks wobbly. I followed your youtube instructions..

[HG]

Do Napoleon gas grills have a system that is able to cope with the ashes that fall through the tray?

[CanadaSocial]

Why do we remove the flavour bars, won’t that result in clogging the burners? I don’t want my 825 to get clogged.

[arthurhochstein]

Used it and it worked well. I left it in the grill for a few days, and when I removed it it was rusty. It's probably not necessary to remove rust, but what's the best way to do it?

[cadfaelmonk]

Will you be offering a preseasoned tray as you can now get for cast iron pans?

[alexduque]

I can used that tray for any gas grill

[mikem]

Can we leave the sear plates in place with the charcoal tray? Napoleon, you provided confusing info in your prior comments. In one post someone asked if he could leaves the sear plates in place to protect the burners (to prevent ashes to clog the burners). Your anwer was : yes good idea. But then in another comment you wrote : "The instructions call for the sear plates to be removed because the tray requires the burners to light the charcoal and wood chips." So what is it? We or can we not leave the sear plates in place to protect the bruners?

[sethuramankrishnaswamy]

Is there any option to add a full sized griddle on top?

[abhayshiva]

Hi when we use lump chargoal in a tray would it get the same taste exact like pure charcoal bbq.