Each grill had an igniter button, and following their manual’s lighting instructions, we preheated the grills to 500°F, which took between minutes. We then cooked hamburgers, steak and chicken on each grill in the same way. The next spot on the list of best gas grills goes to the Char-Broil Gas2Coal Hybrid char broil performance Grill. With the Char-Broil Gas2Coal Hybrid grill, you can switch seamlessly between gas and coal for your fuel source – extremely rare in the grilling world. The Cuisinart CCG-100 GrateLifter Charcoal Grill has a convertible cooking grate that lifts when you open the lid for easier access to the coal bed.
One-pound canisters are lightweight, inexpensive, and available at most hardware stores. Lugging around a 20-pound propane cylinder isn’t our idea of portability. If you wind up wanting to use a larger tank, you can purchase an adapter with a Type 1 connector for a 20-pound refillable propane tank. Char-Broil Blackstone Adventure also recommends that you routinely check the propane tank’s connector, tubes, and regulators for leaks. The manufacturer also states that every cleaning and maintenance step be carried out when the grill is cool. On the flip side, we were hoping to have more than one color to choose from.
Levers on the sides of the grill adjust to keep the grate in the up or down position. During our tests, one side of the grate would get stuck in a different position than the other about a third of the time, forcing us to wrestle with hot metal. Despite its 12,000 Btu output, it ran the coldest of all the propane portables we tested, yielding pallid burgers and flabby, undercooked chicken. The 240-square-inch grilling grate can accommodate up to seven 6-ounce burger patties at a time.
Even though the Jumbo Joe isn’t the smallest or most compact charcoal grill we tested, it is lightweight and easy to carry. The lid-locking metal handle tightly holds the grill together for transport and pulls double duty as a convenient lid holder. And since the spacious firebox fits a full chimney starter’s worth of coals, you can get two or three rounds of grilling per load.
Every grill lover has been involved in or heard about lump charcoal vs briquettes arguments before. We think this grill provides users with an exciting grilling experience from our Char-Broil Performance Burner Cabinet Gas Grill review. The Performance Burner grill’s fire can cross over to the second burner. This means you only have to turn the knob of the other burner after lighting the first. The non-stick porcelain-coated grates, for instance, wipe down very quickly and need minimal scrubbing.
If durability, design and performance are what you expect from a grill, then the Weber Spirit II is for you. We selected the moderately expensive Weber Spirit II – E-310 to test, and its performance was excellent, but it did not surpass the Char-Broil. On grill forums, diehard Weber fans state that any Weber — charcoal or gas — is the best grill money can buy. Other people, however, question why Webers are much more expensive than other grills. Next, we heated the grills back up to 500°F and seared one-inch-thick New York strip steaks on both sides for three minutes.