Grilling Tools: Tongs, Skewers, Chimney Starter and Meat Thermometer

What you need for a barbecue: a chimney starter to light the charcoal, a brush to clean the grate, tongs and a spatula to turn the food, a fork, skewers for kebabs, a grill basket for vegetables and fish, heat-proof gloves, and a meat thermometer to know when everything is safely cooked.

Thermometer, at 11 letters, crosses the grid from corner to corner on a backwards diagonal. Four words are diagonal in all.

Grilling Tools Vocabulary: 10 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 6 of the 10 read backwards. The longest word is Thermometer, with 11 letters.

Basket: A woven or wire container: a bread basket at the table, or a grill basket for vegetables and fish.
Brush: A small brush for spreading egg wash, butter or sauce on food.
Chimney: A chimney starter, a metal cylinder that lights charcoal quickly without lighter fluid.
Fork: A long, two-pronged grill fork for lifting and turning large cuts of meat.
Gloves: Heat-proof grill gloves that protect your hands from the fire.
Grate: The metal grill grate the food sits on over the fire.
Skewers: Long, thin metal or wooden sticks for threading food to make kebabs.
Spatula: A wide, sturdy grill spatula for flipping burgers.
Thermometer: A food thermometer, used to check that meat has reached a safe internal temperature.
Tongs: Long grill tongs that keep your hands away from the heat.

How to Solve the Grilling Tools Word Search

"Thermometer" runs corner to corner, from the bottom right of the grid to the top left. "Chimney" has the only C and Y, and "skewers" the only W; both are diagonal too. "Gloves" has the only V and runs upward.

Barbecue Party Activities

Hand out copies while the grill heats up.
Talk about grill safety: gloves, long tongs and keeping children back from the fire.
Use a meat thermometer and check the safe temperatures for chicken, burgers and steak.