Volcano Outdoors 30-700 Lid for Grilling

I am a dutch oven cook fanatic. I use them in fishing and hunting camps as well as on a regular basis for home cooking. The limits on dutch ovens is they don't work well in high wind and don't work at all in rain. Wind and rain are regular contitions in my Alaskan hunting and fishing camps. I first found this product at a sporstman show. It is make for use In a volcano cooking "system" which I do not use, but the Lid looked just like what I needed to use my 3 legged Dutch ovens in the rain. I bought one. I immediately found the cover protected the oven from wind and rain but the charcoal would not burn under the tent Lid cover for lack of air. This is because I place the 3 legged Dutch oven on a steel plate or big pizza pan for cooking. The bottom rim of the Lid is sealed around the bottom by resting on the steel/aluminum plate. I simply put a series of 1/2" brass grommets around the sides and top to let some air in. This easy modification worked absolutely perfect (photo attached). Heavy rain, wind, and bitter cold (below zero) present no restrictions for use of the oven. Charcoal lasts about 30-40% longer under the Lid and provides a long steady heat. The lid will only fit over ovens 12" or smaller in diameter and after about 50 or so uses they are pretty much heat damaged to the point they must be replaced. If you use dutch ovens in the camp conditions, this cover (with gromments added) will remove all weather restrictions for cooking.

Great product and great customer service.I had recently written a bad review as I had not heard from the company. Turns out they did reply but it was in my JUNK folder, and I did not see it until this company reached out to me again.I have tried several times to delete my past review but continue to have a difficult time do so.We have been using this product since 2019 and it has made the best pizzas, nachos and baked cookies!And we will continue to use this product!

Contains asbestos fibers.It is such a brilliant design concept: a lightweight and pack-able grill lid that's also well made. The big bad PROBLEM (unbeknownst to me, though perhaps I should have surmised) occurred in my (over-) handling of it as I folded it up after my first use in order to put it back into its original wrapper the next day. Multiple asbestos "slivers."I rechecked the lid's "hang-tag," the product description here, and the Q & A here before contacting Volcano Grills. The only answer here in Q & A as to "What's it made of?" came from a consumer, not "The Seller," so I called them to formally inquire about its "content" and to explain I'd gotten tiny shards in my fingertips from the handling of it. The agent said he'd never heard of that happening before, but said wearing gloves might be a good solution for my situation.I urged him to pass on to Volcano-Grills' marketing/packaging people the need for a fiber-content Warning-Sticker to be slapped onto the lids' packages ASAP. It's bad enough for an adult to need to use a 10X magnifier and tweezers on their fingers, but oh, I pity the parent of a child that gets a hold of the grilling-lid and ends up with those slivers in them!

If you have a Volcano stove this works

It's true, it comes with tiny shards of what looks like fiberglass. These got in my Tshirt and stuck in my hand. We're back to that minimum cost manufacturing. This is negligent packaging. They should have cleaned the product. I recommend you take it right outside before you even open the package, and hose it off real good before you use it or let anyone else touch it. They're really doing this on the cheap!

I have been trying to bake 10 inch pizzas in my 12 inch dutch oven for several months now. Even with 48 charcoal briquettes, I have been unable to get the exterior temperature of the dutch oven over 320 degrees F. This means that pizzas take up to 15 minutes to cook.A month ago, a local paper carried an article on the Volcano grill and it mentioned this lid, so I ordered it. I just finished a river trip with pizzas for one meal. Using this lid, the exterior temperature was 440 degrees F (same amount charcoal) and the pizzas baked in 10 minutes. By the way, there was a 2 inch gap underneath the lid, which may not be optimum. Too much of a gap and the heating would be less and too little means that the charcoal will not get enough oxygen to burn well.

This is very heavy - heavier than the other one for sale. It folds up flat and tucks away in a drawer until needed again. Handy loop near the top. I bought this for a different purpose though...I LOVE to cook on the wood stove in my enamel cast iron dutch ovens. I often will use this over the dutch oven to bake. You can do cakes, pies, bread, etc. on top of the wood stove (with stove top hotter than 350*, set DO on a trivet) with this over the pot. Chicken 'n Dumplings, Chili, Baked Potatoes. Tonight, meat loaf in a ring with baked beans inside the ring. Cover dutch oven with lid. Cover with this Volcano top and leave for an hour. Sigh...smells SO GOOD!!

Yes, it is fireproof, and also turns the grill into a fantastic smoker.I use it mainly with hardwood for cooking. I let the flames die down a bit, put the flame diffuser ( the middle plate ) on and warm up the top grill and I'm ready to cook. With the lid on the flames almost totally disappear resulting in a meal that is pretty much baked. I still turn whatever I'm grilling over, but I'm not really sure I need to. If you use it with some nice maple, hickory or other hardwood, you can get a great smokey flavor to your chicken, chops or whatever. Meat comes out very moist. You'll love it.