Contest looking for grilling ideas

I receive dozens of e-mails about contests each week, and most are fairly mundane. But this one caught my eye.

If you do a lot of grilling, this may be the contest for you. It’s not looking for recipes but product ideas.

Lifetime Brands, a national developer of kitchenware and home decor products, is looking for new ideas in outdoor cooking and grilling gear. Wouldn’t you love to have been the one to have come up with the idea for one of those beer-can chicken holders or the chimney stove? What about the long-handled lighter long enough to reach the coals?

Anyone with a barbecue product concept that can enhance or change barbecuing and associated outdoor entertaining may submit it to the search hosted on Edison Nation. Lifetime Brands products are nationally branded under recognizable labels such as KitchenAid and Farberware, among others.

If your idea is selected, you’ll receive a $2,500 cash advance and a percentage of sales for up to 20 years. Enter by July 28 at www.EdisonNation.com. Keep this in mind when you’re out grilling over the Fourth of July. Surely you’ll think at some point, “If only they made a (fill in the blank), grilling would be so much simpler.” There’s your entry.