Help in choosing a Charcoal Grill!? ALL comments/opinions ++

Any type of high heat grill.

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Who makes the best Charcoal Grill & Why?

Weber
24
73%
Big Green Egg
3
9%
Blue Rhino
0
No votes
Bodum
0
No votes
Brinkman
0
No votes
Broil King
0
No votes
Bull Outdoor Products
0
No votes
Char-Broil
0
No votes
Char-Griller
1
3%
Cobb
0
No votes
Fire Sense
0
No votes
Hasty-Bake
3
9%
Kingsford
0
No votes
Marsh Allen
0
No votes
Napoleon
1
3%
Viking
1
3%
 
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Postby bsooner75 » Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:35 pm

I would recommend the 22.5 Weber kettle. In addition to all the great points above, it has some really cool accessoriesImage.
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Re: Help in choosing a Charcoal Grill!? ALL comments/opinion

Postby DATsBBQ » Fri Mar 29, 2013 6:58 am

The next piece of yard art I get will be stainless steel or ceramic. Leave a cooker uncovered here and you get rust. If you cover them you get a cooker full of mold.
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Postby k.a.m. » Fri Mar 29, 2013 7:19 am

DATsBBQ wrote:The next piece of yard art I get will be stainless steel or ceramic. Leave a cooker uncovered here and you get rust. If you cover them you get a cooker full of mold.


DATsBBQ, make sure its pure SS bolts included not that cheap stuff. I have seen hot dipped Galvanized rust on the island. :lol:
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Postby Red Farr » Sat Mar 30, 2013 1:15 pm

Go with the Weber kettle savage_007 for all the valid points mentioned above. Weber is the best selling grill/oven in the world today, as bsooner75 posts there are more aftermarket accessories available for the Weber 22.5 than any other. bsooner75 has a pizza oven hooked up to his Weber rig you can swap that out for a rotisserie spit and ring made by Weber for the 22.5 Now you're into a whole new area of outdoor cooking. Butcher up a pork shoulder mount it on that shank and you'll be cooking like they do in Old Mexico, meat cooked with farr.

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Postby Bonkers789 » Sat Mar 30, 2013 9:43 pm

I'm a pellet pooper guy and there awesome and all around great jmo on it
With the yoder 640 you can smoke and even grill it can get up to 650 on the grate and as low as not sure yet on that
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Postby Scott P » Sun Mar 31, 2013 8:28 am

I love my 22.5 in Weber and have gone through many hundreds of pound of charcoal with it. There is no more versatile grill.
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Postby 2BigGreenEggs » Sun Apr 28, 2013 9:23 am

I own and use two Big Green Eggs, a mini and a large. They don't rust out, have a life time warranty and provide very stable temperatures for extended cooks. I do everything from smoking to searing steaks. The grills are cranked up several days a week. I am smoking about 16 lbs of Canadian Bacon and American bacon this morning. Yesterday it was my Chrozio recipe. I don't like cooking on metal grills, maintaining temps is a challenge. I am the previous owner of 3 Webers and 2 gassers. They all went to the recycling yard after a couple of years of hard use or rust. I have never regretted buying the BGE's. To each his own and have fun.
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Postby BluDawg » Sun Apr 28, 2013 11:41 am

I love MY Weber 22 OTS but the day is coming to replace it after 27 yrs. of service. I'm going to go with the 26, "Go big or go home". Get the 26 Size Matters! :texas:
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Postby spacetrucker » Fri Aug 02, 2013 8:02 am

the best all around grill... Like all have said depends on the application, I have cooked on lots and lots of different devices, some even resembled piles of rocks and a steel grate.
The way I make this kind of decision, is if I had to get rid of the electrics, pellet cookers, gasser, and could only have one which one would it be? Say if we were moving to an unfriendly bbq dwelling...
my vote is the Webber 22 I have had one and used it well over 15 years, of coarse it has been kept clean and out of the elements, recently gave my daughter an 18.5 for my birthday.. :shock:
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Postby Backyard Grilling Co » Sun Aug 04, 2013 4:55 pm

Personally, if budget isn't that big of a concern and depending on how much room you have and how many people you are cooking for, I would look at a Big Green Egg. It has a lifetime warranty, doesn't take up that much room and is very efficient. I have a large and have had no problems cooking for 6 - 8 people on it. I also don't have a lot of room for a larger offset smoker/grill.
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Re: Help in choosing a Charcoal Grill!? ALL comments/opinion

Postby CaptJack » Sun Sep 15, 2013 12:29 pm

if I only had one outdoor cooker it would be my 22"OldSmokey

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