Gotta buy a BBQ

[Scottmi]

for our yacht club.. $1,500 budget. All stainless steel cabinet, grates, burners, propane, 4 or 5 primary burners, stand-alone (with wheels). No side burner required (is more a hazard than benefit for our purposes). Replacement parts available would be a plus. Is this doable? Not thrilled with options available from the usual sources big box stores. Don't know what brands to seek or avoid or best online sources. I know we have some experts in the space here...I welcome any suggestions! Also, love to know any recommendations for misc parts for grills.
Pics below of our current (aging) grills. third one (not pictured) is the one needing to be replaced outright.



This looks like a fair deal - any reason to avoid it?

 

[daveinlax]

You’re not going to get everything you want on your budget but I’m a Weber fan. You can always upgrade the grates and flavor bars if they ever rust out. Look for them put together and delivered at ACE or Tru-Value stores.

 

[Scottmi]

You’re not going to get everything you want on your budget but I’m a Weber fan. You can always upgrade the grates and flavor bars if they ever rust out. Look for them put together and delivered at ACE or Tru-Value stores.

Weber is my first choice as well, but a Weber comparable to the Kenmore (direct link) is about $3500... Anyone have experience or opinions on Kenmore (sub brand of Permasteel, Pomona CA) ? Kenmore sells replacement grills and some parts at least, too. Pretty compelling price.

 

[BarrelProof]

Check Napoleon.

 

[Briar Lee]

My long experience with propane grills at my farm for deer camp has taught me the thing that wears out, is the bottom of the grill rusts out. Otherwise who cares about the rest of it, or who made it? It’s four or five gas burners, all easily replaced.

Line the bottom of the grill with aluminum foil.

Every other wear part is an eBay replacement.

 

[daveinlax]

I was just looking at Webers at ACE yesterday and I saw a full size Genesis for that would be in budget. My Genesis replaced a SS Kenmore that slowly fell apart years ago.
The black enamel/aluminum Weber hoods lasts and looks better longer than the cheap “stainless” hood. The welds on the cheap rebranded Charbroil grills rust. IMO you want an aluminum box.

 

[Scottmi]

I was just looking at Webers at ACE yesterday and I saw a full size Genesis for that would be in budget. My Genesis replaced a SS Kenmore that slowly fell apart years ago.
The black enamel/aluminum Weber hoods lasts and looks better longer than the cheap “stainless” hood. The welds on the cheap rebranded Charbroil grills rust. IMO you want an aluminum box.

really! do you know what model?

 

[Briar Lee]

really! do you know what model?

I agree with your earlier opinion the side burner(s) on a propane grill are a liability.

My dear friend David was camp cook at our deer camp until he died in 2016, and we still use David’s simple folding two burner cooker (not grill) for boiling lots of stew and beans and such.




As for the actual grill, our current one in service is an old stainless four burner Charbroil somebody gave us with the bottom rusted. A friend made a new bottom out of sheet metal (we keep covered with foil) and if the burner elements need replaced, that’s $40 on eBay.




The propane cooker might be worth stealing, so it’s stored in a shed in the off season.

The worthless old Charbroil stays at camp, in case anybody might need it during the year.



What makes all propane gadgets work is a replaceable regulator, less than $20.



We keep a spare with the cooker.

The igniters are optional. When they quit use your lighter.

What’s important is to keep the cook supplied with propane and whatever he drinks.

If you have a $1,500 grill some %}**# is sure to steal it, so don’t.

 

[FurCoat]

Get a wood or charcoal grill.
Using a gas stove on the porch is not grilling. I'll catch a bunch of shit over this but I don't care.

 

[AcesAndEights]

Get a wood or charcoal grill.
Using a gas stove on the porch is not grilling. I'll catch a bunch of shit over this but I don't care.

I cook a solid 40-50% of our dinners on a Weber kettle. Can’t beat it.

 

[Scottmi]

Went with a Napoleon LEX 605. Will meet our "heated cooking grate" needs and serve our purposes just right. Thanks all who commented--very helpful all the way around!

605 (without 'sizzle zone')

Come visit and we'll grill throw some salmon on the Bar-Bee-Que!

 

[FurCoat]

I cook a solid 40-50% of our dinners on a Weber kettle. Can’t beat it.

That's a good grill. I need to look into getting one. I have a Brinkman Smoke N Pit Professional that I got in 1998. It's a great grill and I love cooking on it. The thing is huge which was great when my five boys were around, but it's just the wife and my daughter now.

 

[georged]

For my yacht (pictured), I settled on four SSJ-AE's (also pictured).

Highly recommended.

Luvs me that BBQ. Mmmmmmmm...

 

[BarrelProof]

Went with a Napoleon LEX 605. Will meet our "heated cooking grate" needs and serve our purposes just right. Thanks all who commented--very helpful all the way around!

605 (without 'sizzle zone')

Come visit and we'll grill throw some salmon on the Bar-Bee-Que!

Well-played.

 

[BarrelProof]

For my yacht (pictured), I settled on four SSJ-AE's (also pictured).

Highly recommended.

Luvs me that BBQ. Mmmmmmmm...


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I actually routinely use something very similar to this.

 

[Briar Lee]

The first propane BBQ grill I ever saw was visiting my Uncle Ben and Aunt Mildred in North Kansas City when I was about ten.

It was about the fanciest way to cook hamburgers and hot dogs I’d ever seen. It was a sheet metal oblong box with a propane bottle attached below.

When we got back to Humansville my Daddy was resolved to buy my Mama one, lest her sister get ahead of her in modern household cooking gadgets.

Like all our people in the Christian Church, my Daddy never bought or washed a stitch he wore his entire life, and men didn’t cook at all, either.

My father did keep back a few hogs a year he had slaughtered at the Humansville Locker Plant, and he always cautioned me what an insult it would have been to share the ribs with the hired help or the neighbors. We kept the ribs, and Mama baked them.


Mama of course had complete say about the particular BBQ grill she got, and she selected one from Sear’s, because the local Western Auto didn’t stock anything that exotic.

We had a 500 gallon propane tank out back of the house, but in 1968 there weren’t 20 pound bottles of propane available in Humansville, but Willy Overshiner said he could get charcoal briquettes at Overshiner’s Grocery, and I can remember helping Daddy assemble the grill.

One evening when a million stars were out and the Milky Way was shining over Bug Tussle, Mama tried out the new charcoal grill and I’d never tasted such delicious hot dogs and hamburgers.

I turn 65 next week, and I can remember when backyard barbecue was a BFD.