In addition to its sturdy construction, Weber’s classic kettle grill addresses what can make charcoal grilling such a headache—ash removal and temperature control. The cooking area is 147 square inches — it fits six burgers at a time — and the porcelain-enameled lid and bowl come in six different colors. The air control required for charcoal grills actually makes them dang good smokers, too.
For example; if the temp has been constant at 300 degrees for 30 or more minutes this means the coals are burning constant so the temp is not in the process of climbing or dropping. If the temp is stabile just a slight change to the top vent (open or closed by about 1/8) will change the temp plus or minus degrees. And every time a change is made to the vents it takes about minutes for the kettle to restabilize at the new temp. This is because the coals have to either perk up or cool down. And a dial or lid thermometer will also need to adjust to the change in temp which can take minutes or so.
Other than a couple of convenience features, this is just straight-up grilling. There’s a hook inside the lid for hanging on the bowl which helps prevent damage to it, and a special handle just for rolling the grill around. From an aesthetic standpoint, it’s hard not to like this classic-looking grill. It has changed very little since the actual original Weber… and why should it? Just to look at it is to conjure up memories of family cookouts and good times — even if you’ve never owned one. Down below is the steel charcoal grate upon which you place your fuel.
We set all air vents on each grill to the halfway-open position. Lastly, we place one rack of ribs on each grill for indirect cooking, with the meat not sitting directly above the coals. We measured charcoal in a chimney by grams, weber genesis 2 and in a ratio for that grill’s specific surface area. We lit the charcoal inside the chimney, letting it burn until the smoke dissipated and the coals began to turn grayish-white, then put the charcoal into the grill.
For the high-heat, whole-grate burger test, we lit a chimney’s worth of briquets—the equivalent of six quarts, or about 90 coals of a former runner-up from our extensive briquet tests. We then oiled the grates and distributed 10 to 12 six-ounce patties across the whole cooking surface . While the burgers cooked we kept an eye out for undesirable flare-ups, which can char the meat and create acrid smoke, and examined the evenness of cooking on the different areas of the grates. After about 10 minutes of cooking , we compared how well each grill had seared the burgers, looking for any patties that were charred or unacceptably raw, and took a taste.
It has the same crappy ash catcher design as the Original 18 and Original 22 and is mounted on very short tripod legs. This grill has the same awful ash removal system as the Original 18 inch kettle. The second problem with the Original 18 inch Kettle is the ash removal weber q system. This kettle has the One Touch Cleaning system that helps sweep ashes out of the kettle and it works very well. The problem is that when the ashes leave the kettle they are supposed to fall onto a shallow metal saucer where you can collect and dispose of them.
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