Inexpensive Gas Grill ??

Do any of you have a brand of grill under $350 that you can recommend  ? Our current grill is beyond updating withe burners/grates/valves (it lasted 18 years though ). Thanks  

Whatever you get, don't make any mis-steaks...

Edited by DiyDave - 15 Jun 2022 at 8:19pm

I have a Weber round charcoal grill I like real well. Can't beat meat cooked over a wood fire. Wife likes gas grill. The weber charcoal has outlasted 2 gas grills.

klinemar wrote: I have a Weber round charcoal grill I like real well. Can't beat meat cooked over a wood fire. Wife likes gas grill. The weber charcoal has outlasted 2 gas grills.

I saw a little itty bitty round (like a weber) grill once, thought it was a toy one...but learned it was a real grill and you put one (1) briquete in it and cook one (1) maybe 2 hamburgers (one atta time) on it. i haven't seen one since, but sure would buy one if i could find one. anyone else seen them? 

I saw one at Tractor Supply/ Orscheln's, just under $300. stainless burners, diverters and grill, but must have been a one time deal, haven't seen them since.  I am considering one at Walmart, $297, gas on one side, charcoal on the other, just don't know how much I'd use the charcoal side. 

I just had to junk my old Weber gas grill.  Poor thing only last 24 years!!

I have the ‘Char Grill’ brand, gas on one side, charcoal on the other, with a gas burner top for a single pot on the end. I have used the charcoal side maybe twice the whole time I’ve had it. Although I need to replace the metal guards that sit above the 3 gas burners, for now I keep them wrapped with HD aluminum foil.

That grill I want is the chargriller professional Texas trio

Edited by Thad in AR. - 16 Jun 2022 at 8:28pm

I paid $349. + tax of course for my flat top grill, it's a Camp Chef brand. I chose it over a Blackstone as it is a regular grill (LPG) first then has a flat top that fits over the top of the grill area. it also has the drip channel in front that takes the grease away off to a catch pan to the side. easy clean up. can grill a long time before having to clean out the grease pan. the Blackstone has a similar idea except you shove the grease out the back of the flat top, to clean it's pan you have to pull the grill out each time to clean it. and Blackstone is a flat top only grill, no grill grates like other grills. flat top grills don't smoke like other grills unless you burn what you are cooking! my Camp Chef is inside a 10x18 insulated building on my deck. we use it almost every day all year round. my freezer is also in the same building, and when we wanna cook something up, get it outta the freezer and put it on the flat top. the flat top does real good cooking up anything from its frozen state til done, with out ruining the items. cook time isn't much longer than cooking thawed items. i even do BBQ ribs on the flat top. only thing it won't cook up is smoking your items, i use a regular smoker for that. about everyone has jumped on the band wagon offering flat tops now. look the different brands over and decide what would work best for you. if you have a spot already where your grill sets in a built in area, then the Blackstone wouldn't be very handy having to pull the grill out each time to clean the grease pan. that's why i didn't buy that brand. bought mine at Bomgaars farm store, they have alot of other brands to sell you too, one is a 2 burner table top flat top grill, it's a Pit Boss brand and it looks interesting for about $140. (was out there today and seen it). it to was just the flat top with no grill under it. and really...i've had my flat top for a number of years now and have never used the grill grid part. it's always been the flat top. buy what you like, or experiment with another type. i like cooking and have prolly alot more cooking "things" or different ways of doing different types/ways of cooking than other people. but i've learned alot of different ways to cook things...i'm always experimenting, and some have been flops, and when they are...i learned from it and then i try it a different way.   

Shameless you need to try the grill grid,  I heard those grill marks add taste.  I will be the first to admit my tasters are not the most discerning, so I will leave the testing to others. 

No duck eggs?

Lars(wi) wrote: [QUOTE=FREEDGUY] Thanks for the replies to you gentlemen !! Sadly, I'm too lazy to jack with charcoal !!  There won't be many "steaks " on it, we do brats, burgers, ribs , "occasional chicken" and frozen pizzas

Very seldom do I (we) purchase steaks. Over the decades, with gmo feeds, breeding for leaner beef, etc., beef has become bland, imho. We grill a lot of salmon & catfish, and brats or Italian sausage.
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we have a grocery store here that puts on some pretty good sales sometimes...i was able to get steaks BOGO. made the ribeye steaks about $6+ each. i bought alot of them on that sale, made them cheaper than hamburger. anymore...about anything is cheaper than hamburger. and sometimes the same type sale is on pork...that gets bought up alot too. plus for every $50. I spend i get .05 cents off a gallon of gas at a local station. sometimes if we spend $75. in groceries we get .50 cents off a gallon of gas. and we can put the gas tickets together to make .50 cents off a gallon!

YEP... FreeGas is kind of a CHICKIE kind of guy !!