Our main complaint for just about every grill is the obligatory bi-metal dial thermometer in the hood that gives you a ballpark reading of what the temperature is high above the meat. Since we cook down on the grates, it’s always better to use your own digital thermometer and place a probe at the cooking surface. With their acquisition of iGrill digital thermometers, Weber is addressing this issue. Spirit II is “iGrill3 Ready” with a mounting place on the right side shelf for an optional iGrill 3 digital thermometer. This Bluetooth device enables you to place one digital probe at the cooking surface to dial up the correct oven temp, and one probe in your food to monitor internal meat temp.
Like our top pick, the two-burner Spirit comes with a cast-aluminum firebox, an enameled steel lid and open cart, two side tables, and a 10-year warranty. When fresh air and the sear on a juicy grilled burger combine, it’s pure warm-weather delight. To help you keep the good vibes going, we’ve hunted for Blackstone Adventure gas grills that are durable, easy to clean, and simple to control. After cooking burgers, barbecue, and chicken on seven top-rated grills—and researching dozens more—we recommend the Weber Spirit II E-310. No grill matches its combination of exceptional performance, usability, durability, and value.
And if you want to easily move your natural-gas grill into and out of storage, you’ll also need to buy a quick-disconnect system, which can add another $150 or so. The benefits of natural gas include not having to wrestle propane tanks on and off your grill, always-available fuel , and lower fuel costs . As the weber spirit 2 family sits down for dinner, or a couple of friends come over for a bite – this three burner grill will do its magic. With the spacious cooking area you can sear steaks on one side while grilling an appetizer on the other, and the convenient open-cart allows you to keep your tools and equipment within reach.
But it is expensive to run a website with more than 2,000 pages and we don’t have a big corporate partner to subsidize us. For the ribs, I put a dry rub on a rack of pork ribs and let them cook on the warming rack on low heat. I used a probe to check the temperature after 3 hours and they were hovering close to 200 degrees Fahrenheit. The USDA suggests pork should be cooked to an internal temperature of at least 145 degrees to be safe to eat.
It didn’t have as much of a char on the outside, but those burgers were closer to the medium doneness we were trying to achieve. My burgers were consistent across those tests and took between 15 and 17 minutes for every burger to reach 145 degrees. Since we measured each burger’s temp, I could also see how long it took each burger to finish to determine if there were any obvious hot or cold spots in the grill. Fortunately, there weren’t; each burger took between 12 and 14 minutes to get to temperature. I especially like the fact that the grill starts up with minimal fuss thanks to the GS4 grilling system.