I like having gas as an option. The quicker start up is appealing to me. I bought a Weber Spirit that had been used exactly 3 times for $100 from craigslist. I didn't think I would use a gas grill that much because I had a Primo XL and multiple kettles so I opted for a 2 burner. I regretted that and ended up buying a blaze 4 burner and taking the Weber here to the cabin where I still like and appreciate it. $100 well spent but 3 burners would still have been the better choice. If you're really not going to use it for much of anything don't buy one but if having a nice gas grill would make you use it more often than your dinosaur don't hesitate to get a quality gas grill to compliment your charcoal options.
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Replace it with a Traeger or a pellet grill of your choice. just my opinion.
But at a friend's house, I cook both ribs and a spatchcocked chicken on the lowest-cost pellet grill available at the time. Both cooks were excellent.
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Skip side burner and go straight to a jet engine like turkey fryer. Nobody puts Baby in the corner!
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I'm late to this discussion, but I bought a brand new Weber Genesis II E-410 4 burner on clearance in January 2019 for $399 at Home Depot. It had been $899 summer of 2018, then dropped to $699 in September, then sat at $599 for a while, and finally, after Christmas I found they had just 2 left - a 6 burner for $599 and the one 4 burner for $399, and took it home, and sent my 2 burner 2002 Genesis to live at my youngest daughter's house.
I think the only reason I got the clearance deal I did was that this was a discontinued model that would not be sold the next year - Weber stopped making the Genesis II 6 burner, and discontinued the colors other than black or stainless - and this one was "Smoke" colored.
So was it a good deal? Sure. Do I use it like I thought I would? Not even close. Ever since I got a griddle in 2020, and a kamado in 2021, those 2 have become my most used grills. Gas cooks are now mostly on the Camp Chef griddle, but I do sometimes use the regular gas grill for bone-in chicken, when I don't want to wait on charcoal, and - as a warming oven, haha, just like you. For those purposes it can't be beat. Sometimes I fire it up if I don't want to wait on charcoal. But if I had to guess, I have been using the gas grill at most 5-6 times a year.
If you want a good outdoor burner, the cheapest way to get one of those is to pickup a new or used turkey fryer setup.
That said, if you don't mind the "camp" look, the most flexible thing you could get would be that Camp Chef 16" stove you were talking about. You can get a griddle top, a grill box, even a pizza oven for it. And of course, use your pots and pans on it. I know folks have been having customer service issues with them lately, but I still think their stoves are a good way to go, and likely someone near you sells them.Comment
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jfmorris You've encapsulated my thinking on this almost exactly.I think I'm leaning toward the CC stove, unless I find a killer deal on something like an E-410 or a Char-Broil Professional when the stores have end of season sales, that's probably how I'm going to go. I can do 90% of anything I'd do on a gasser on GriddleBot, and for the other 10% firing up a load of charcoal isn't really a problem.
As for the turkey burners, I've got two, though both probably need new regulators (they haven't been used in years). The problem there is the ergonomics suck, i mean having your burner 18" off the ground is great if your camping or cooking street food in Bangkok. But otherwise... not so much.
So I'm leaning toward the stove option, but nothing's going to happen for at least 6 weeks, just so I can squirrel away some disposable income. So I've got plenty of time for indecision, overthinking, analysis paralysis, and life to just kick us in the jubbly bits and moot the whole thing anyway.
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Yeah - the ergonomics of a short turkey fryer stand kinda suck. I've got 2 old ones that are also never used since I picked up a dual burner stand locally from a guy for $50, that holds my two 15 gallon brewing pots at a great height, and which is basically a cart design with a jet (105K BTU) and banjo (60K BTU) burner. One of the burners is at "counter height", the other a foot or so lower for big pots.
You got a good plan - now stick to it!
Oh - and "GriddleBot"? How did that sneak in?
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