Keeping it Grilling Simple

A few years ago, I purchased a Char-Broil gas grill to replace my old gas grill that I had since forever.  The old gas grill was one of those cheap ones you could pick up at the grocery store that had some brand name of Sunbeam or something.  It had worked well, but I replaced the burners because they had basically burned out after years of cooking.  The new replacement burners weren’t very good, so I figured it would be a good time to upgrade.  I decided I would upgrade to something a little bit fancy.  At the time, I was still running the singles group and having events at my house which required cooking lots of food.  The grill had four burners with burner covers and four grates, one over each burner.  I’m sure there was some special cleaning instructions for these grills, because whatever I didn’t do, the grates eventually rusted and started to bend.  The burner covers also started to rust as well as the rest of the grill.  I had a cover for the grill, but I guess after a few years of North Carolina weather and cooking, any protective coating was gone and the grill was toast.  I looked into replacing the parts, but they didn’t have any replacement parts and it looks like the model is no longer available.

My parents came down for Easter to see Dean 2.0 and noticed the grill.  After much discussion, I agreed to let them buy me a new grill while we were over at Lowe’s Home Improvement.  An associate asked if I had any questions and I explained my frustration with the Char-Broil.  He began to explain that all of the high end grills, except for Weber suffered the same issue. Apparently Weber doesn’t use really thin aluminum in the body of the grill and they also provide easy removable trays for cleaning out the grill.   After giving us a demo of the tray and stuff, I guessed that was probably the issue with the Char-Broil, that it didn’t have an easy way to clean out the bottom and the juices and such just rusted it out.  The problem with the Weber grills are they are about twice expensive as other grills to start with and go up from there.  So, I decided that I would just go back to the simple type grill I had before.  The Char-Broil had a side burner for cooking something in a pan, but I think I only used it about two times.  The Lowe’s associate said that the Master Forge grill was a good low end grill. It apparently is a Lowe’s brand grill and now that I look them up on the web, they had some issue.  But, simple is as simple does.

My dad and I put the grill together and lit it up.  The grill isn’t as heavy as my old Sunbeam, so I am guessing they aren’t using the same heavy materials.  It doesn’t have a temperature gauge, but I never really paid much attention to that on the Sunbeam and the Char-Broil’s probably led to me cooking food at too high of a temperature.  Hopefully it will last.
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Since the weather finally warmed up a little bit, I cooked up a few hamburgers for Lisa and me.  My dad read the instructions about cooking burgers and it said something about 12 minutes at low.  So, after heating up the grill, I turned it to low and put the burgers on.  After about a minute or so, I flipped them and let them sit for a few more minutes.  Then I added some cheese and put the buns on the top rack to toast.  After about another minute, the cheese was melted, the buns toasted and the burgers were done.  The burgers were cooked completely through and were very tasty.  The new grill works!  Thanks Dad and Mom!

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