Infra-red Gas Grills
Infra-red Gas Grills
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I'm going to buy a new gas grill in the next few months and as I began the search, I found some that utilize infra-red heating instead of convection. Anyone got experience with these?
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Mike McCann
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I had an older Duquane grill from Canada on natural gas that lasted for years, being close to the beach it was quite impressive, would get nice and hot, and had great even burners. If I wanted charcoal flavor I would add 4-6 briquettes to a cast iron smoke chip pan and it worked quite well, got a mesquite charcoal flavor and didn't have to wait long for the fire.
Good luck! Mike L.
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Has anyone tried pellets with the different wood flavors? Is it any better than using charcoal with wood chips?
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Mike McCann
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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However I need to think about a bear issue before I do any outdoor grilling.
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Charbroil has a new line of grills they are billing as "TRU-Infrared". One of their claims is that they can quickly reach very high temps and really sear a steak. I looked at them and decided to pass. The burners look like they would be hard to clean and need cleaning often.
I went with a tried and true Weber S-330. It has an extra burner on one side to get extra hot for searing. It's being delivered tomorrow. Hopefully get to try it out this weekend if it doesn't rain too much.
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I have a Spirit E-210 in natural gas (just the wife and I, didn't need a bigger one), and its been a champ for the last 4 years. I may be due for a burner replacement, but that's not bad all things considered. The porcelain grates are still holding up great, the only complaint I have is the cheap metal they use for the warming rack rusted out after the first year. I live in the Northeast, and the grill stays outside year round (except for when Sandy came through, I pulled it in the garage for that) with a Weber cover on it. Nothing like grilling up a steak when it's about 10 F outside and I gotta shovel a path to the grill. Oh yeah, and never having to run for a propane bottle half way through dinner is great! I have a local shutoff on the gas line (I installed it) where the flex from the grill hooks up to the line, and there's another shutoff at the tap inside the house just in case I have to replace anything.
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Matt
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I got a Broil King rain cover for my Atlanta Stove Works cast iron BBQ grill I have had for the past 15 years.
Works great!
Mike McCann
MMC Engineering
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The cast aluminium body is largely unaffected by our lousy climate and the cooking grids have enough oily residue baked on for them to resist rust indefinitely. I found my 21kg propane bottle on the roadside on the way home after a night out. My wife thought I was crazy (or maybe confirmed it) when I got her to stop the car to pick up the cylinder. Normally these cylinders are found on the back of LPG-powered forklift trucks.
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I'm not sure how the propane bottle exchange thing works, but I see more of that. I assume it's like the 5 gal. water bottle exchange thing works, but I don't do that either.
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My previous grill was a Kenmore Elite. It was built like a tank with an all welded frame but the cast iron burners burnt them selves up in about 6 years and the porcelain grates were also pretty far gone. I gutted it and replaced everything inside the firebox and it lasted another 6 years. It was time to replace everything again but the parts were no longer available. Plus I wanted something with stainless burners and grates.
The one issue I have experienced with the new Weber is the surge valve in the regulator will trip if I open the gas bottle too quickly. This limits the gas flow and you can only get a tiny flame. The first two times it happened I had no idea what was going on. I had to disconnect the bottle and tap on the regulator to get it to reset. Then everything was fine. Evidently this is a common problem these days. When I mentioned what had happened at a Memorial Day BBQ every guy there had experienced it and it happened when the host lit his grill. Maybe my older grills didn't have one of these valves or it was stuck open because it never happened to me before.
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