[HillOBeans]

I do some amateur blacksmithing, and I find the forge to make an excellent steak grill. I live in a wooded area, and use home-made charcoal to forge with instead of coal. With the blower running, the coals can become hot enough to melt steel - then it's simply a matter of turning off the blower (nobody wants ash on their steak), setting the grill grate on the forge, and cooking some meat! I don't generally go for the rare to medium rare, though.

[femto]

A fireman's shovel in the firebox of a steam locomotive also works well.

Don't do it whilst moving though! When a coal fired locomotive is in full flight, the draft though the firebars (the grate at the bottom of the firebox) is strong enough that the entire fire rises up and floats on a bed of air. Stick a steak in that and it will get sucked though the boiler tubes and out the chimney.

[blacksmythe]

  >> use home-made charcoal 

How do you make your charcoal?

The only method I am familiar with is the method used at Plimouth Plantation - a giant pile of wood buried under earth, tended round the clock for two days.

    http://blogs.plimoth.org/pilgrim-blog/?tag=charcoal