Ok what am i missing here, your using wood to make a fire and your using wood to make the fire grate to put the meat on to cook, even green wood is still going to dry out over a fire and burn . if the fire is hot enough to cook the meat its hot enough to cook ,burn, the fire grate thats holding the meat over the fire ???? last year i used a cast iron grate to cook the jerk pork and it didn't burn up and fall in the fire , except for the two pieces that i droped , OOOPS WW