Soon thereafter, Stephen changed the company’s name to Weber-Stephen Products Co. The Weber One-Touch Gold 22.5-Inch Charcoal Grill is our favorite kettle grill, but it has a flaw… Gertens has the largest selection of the most-popular Weber Grills available. The lack of a side table on most Weber kettles is incredibly frustrating. You need someplace to put your tray of burgers, digital thermometer and barbecue sauce. Suitable for 22 1/2″ kettle grill such as Weber or other similar brand models. ( NOT FOR Weber Smokey Mountain, if you have this grill, please don’t buy!). In patent application.
Then, I called my friend and resident AoM meat-cooking consultant, Karl Engel, and asked him to show me the ropes on how to cook with it. To get reacquainted with the Weber Kettle Grill as a grown man, I first went down to my local Home Depot and bought the classic model for myself. Once the victuals were hot and sizzling, they were eagerly placed inside soft Wonder Bread buns, slathered with ketchup and all the other fixins, and devoured with gusto. After enjoying the sound of a newly birthed charcoal fire, we’d stand around the grill and watch the flame slowly get smaller and smaller, and the charcoal get whiter and whiter. And, if you already know charcoal, but you’re looking for a better experience than what you’ve got now, you can’t go wrong with a Weber. Overall, it’s well-designed, well-built, and deserving of the Weber name.
The short of it is – the Weber Kettle is what I believe to be one of the best grills and even smokers to exist, especially at a fair price-point. Our rib experience with a few of the other grills was far from ideal. At times, the inside of this grill hit temperatures as high as 400 degrees F. And sadly, the ribs it produced came out burned, charred and overdone. Interior temperatures had a greater swing, jumping up to 300 degrees F during periods of cooking.
The grill was produced using two sheet metal half-spheres normally used as parts of buoys built in his shop. Shortly thereafter he began selling the invention, which he called ‘George’s Barbecue Kettle’, for which there was considerable demand. One downside to this grill is the ash pan, which can only be emptied by reaching into the grill and lifting it up and out of the kettle.
After 45 minutes, we flipped the chicken parts, slathered on a coating of barbecue sauce, and closed the lid for another five minutes. We repeated this step twice more, rounding out the cook time at an hour flat. Then we had a taste, paying special attention to the breast meat—a long cook can dry it out. Over the course of two days, we put three charcoal grills through a battery of tests designed to demonstrate their qualities and highlight their differences. We cooked burgers on high heat to see how well the grills seared meat and how even and intense a heat they could generate across the whole grate surface.
In an effort to revamp the Ducane brand, Weber introduced the “Ducane Stainless” exclusively through Home Depot, the “Ducane Affinity” and the “Ducane Meridian” through multiple channels. “Grilling is all about high heat and using direct heat to cook each side of the meat, so you don’t need to use the lid. If I were grilling portable bbq steaks, I might use the lid to get some oven-like cooking while I’m grilling the meat. In that case, I’d put the lid on and open up its vents,” Karl told me. The vents in the grill’s bowl and lid allow you to control the airflow into your grill. For grilling, you want a hot fire, so you want plenty of air to come in.
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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. The Weber Original Kettle is no more difficult to use than any other charcoal grill.
When it came to assembly, the only direct comparison we could make was between the Weber and the Napoleon. Both models shared a similar overall design, but the Weber model was comprehensively superior. With simple instructions and a minimal need for tools or acrobatics, Weber has clearly refined its engineering to maximize simplicity.
Stay true to the modern version of the kettle that started it all – the Weber Original Kettle. Invented by Weber’s founder, and loved around the world, this is the essence of charcoal grilling. Portable table fits under grill cover – when you’re not using your charcoal grill, this portable table folds up and lies flat so that you can insert it underneath your grill cover for storage. This is the only add-on grill shelf that can be stored inside the grill.