BBQ Gas Grills 101: A Primer
Today’s market is quite saturated with such a wide variety of BBQ gas grills that sorting through them all to find the one that’s right for your backyard can be quite a fuss. To find the best BBQ grill for you, of course, you can always ask your friends and family about the ones that they’re using, or check the Internet for reviews and ratings. But none of that will help you if you don’t already have a good idea of what your goals and what the basic traits of the various outdoor BBQ grills actually are.
The first thing to note is that you should already have made up your mind to go with a gas grill. Charcoal grills, pellet grills, and even wood grills are available and functional, but gas grills — and specifically natural gas grills — are America’s main kind of backyard grill for several good reasons. They’re inexpensive to operate, easy to use, and doesn’t leave the same kind of taste on your food that propane does.
Assuming you’ve already (correctly) chosen a gas grill for your backyard, it’s time to look at the variations within that category. You can get a good grill in stainless steel, copper, cast iron, cast aluminum, and enamel-coated steel — the first three are more expensive, but last longer; the enamel can be easier to clean but also breaks more easily, and the cast aluminum has the advantages of being non-stick without being fragile like the enamel as well as being less expensive overall — it just has the minor setback of being easier to dent than iron or steel.
There’s also a split between traditional fire-based gas grills and the more technologically advanced infrared gas grills. It’s a tough choice — fire-based grills give you that ‘really grilled’ flavor, whereas infrared grills cook much hotter and are easier to get a good sear with, and some who favor them claim that the food’s flavor is ‘purer’ because there’s no flavor from the gas-fed fire left over on the food. Either way, infrared grills are clearly more expensive.
Finally, you have to look at features. There are grills out there with one burner, two, four, or even sixteen. Some have heat reflectors, large counters, pans to capture drippings from the food, built-in spice racks, or wood-smoking equipment already in place and ready to go. These elements are, by and large, less important in the end than the material and type of your grill, but of course, when you’re buying something that’s going to last your family for decades, you’d better get the details right the first time.
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BBQ Grill | patio_sets May 13, 2011
