Like all Weber products we’ve tested, the popularity of the brand is backed by quality service and sales, with replacement parts being widely available. But considering the quality of their products, you can expect a long and happy culinary relationship with this grill. Overall, the construction of the Q1200 grill makes it quite durable yet lightweight, allowing you to take it with you to the beach or even a farmhouse. All the materials used to make and reinforce this grill protect it from rust, allows it to retain heat better and reduces maintenance. Additionally, the removable catch pan collects leftover grease from the angled grease pan at a distance, making clean-up a breeze. The grill gets hot enough to get great sear marks and the heavy cast iron grates are excellent at retaining heat.
The shape of the cookbox and shroud offers better heat circulation for even tenderness in every bite of your meat. But behind that weight, you have a glass-reinforced nylon frame, supporting a cast aluminum body and lid, that cover a porcelain-enameled cast iron cook surface. All of these are heavy-duty, making the Q 1200 sturdy, durable, and likely to last a very long time. Instead of functioning on liquid propane gas cylinders like the first two models, this is an electrically-operated model. It’s heating element uses 1560-watt power to heat the available 189 square inches of cooking space. With the Q1400 model, you get an evenly heated grill to give you evenly tenderized meat every time without dealing with charcoal or propane tanks anymore.
The Q 3200 is the only grill in the Q series that can be run on either propane or natural gas. Make sure you order the right one for your fuel source as you cannot covert fuel sources after purchase. If you choose the propane option then it comes with the regulator and hose that allows you to use a 20 pound propane tank. The body of this grill is cast aluminum and the cart and frame are plastic. These materials of construction make the grill perfect for use by the pool or in coastal regions where the high salt concentration quickly corrodes grills made of steel. As far as heat retention goes, the cast aluminum lid does a pretty good job at keeping the heat trapped inside.
It has one shelf instead of two, but it does come with built-in tool hooks. So, in terms of cooking capacity, if you want to be able to cook more burgers at a time, opt for the Q2200. However, this extra cooking capacity obviously means that the Q2200 is the larger and heavier of the two. Even though these are smaller grills, Weber still made sure that there was some shelf space with two fold-out shelves on both grills. You can have a plate for burgers when they are done sitting on one shelf. You can have a stack of cheese slices on the other shelf too.
Q 2000 and 2200 are Weber’s large portable gas grills with 280 square inches of cook surface and a single 12,000 BTU stainless steel burner. These portables, originally called Baby Q, were a hit coming out of the gate. Like all Q series grills they have coated cast aluminum housing, porcelain-enameled cast iron cooking grates, electric ignition, removable grease pans and glass re-inforced nylon frames. The Weber Q 320 has a very well thought out design, boasting excellent safety features.
The Char Q was built on the 200 frame so it was a large portable charcoal grill and with the price of $150 it proved to be something not worth it for consumers. The Char Q was released in 2008 and Weber ended production in 2011. A privately-owned American brand, Weber-Stephen Products LLC, was founded in 1952 by George A. Stephen when he invented the first kettle grill.
After Weber launched the first Q-series grill in 2004, Weber added different options to suit grill owners everywhere. The Char Q
Yes that’s right Weber briefly made a charcoal version of the weber charcoal grill. The configuration and price of the grill proved to not be very appealing to the customers.