Burners: Up Close and Private

There's been a bunch of smoke blown about in the grill industry lately about burners and burner supplies. One particular manufacturer says this, and one more says that, one particular sales rep tells you there is not much difference, the subsequent tells you it really is the heart and soul of your grill.

So much is mentioned, but tiny is shown or demonstrated, and it's challenging to know just what is the finest material for a grill burner. If you pardon our pun right here, it is effortless to get burned.

In another article, we graphically explained what happens to a sheet metal burner immediately after time and use. We explained how burn-by way of happens, and what components are less succeptible.

How do you keep away from burn-via? Effectively, you *could* preserve the burner clean. This is a messy and time-consuming procedure, as you have to get in there with a modest, pointed tool and cautiously poke each tiny hole in the burner. *Some* producers truly demand this, else you void the warranty.

If this sounds like a lot of perform, well, it is. It's a ton of work, and it isn't the cleanest job on the planet.

There's an less difficult way: know what you are obtaining into when you look at a distinct grill. Naturally, there is no way to know the thickness or quality of a burner - that is, unless you really cut a couple of of them in half! Now, no particular person in their right thoughts would even assume about undertaking this, appropriate? Assume of the expense, the mess...

Well, we did. In fact, We cut open the burners from numerous of today's beloved high-finish grills: Alfresco, DCS, Fire Magic and Lynx. Looking for thicknesses, we also examined how these burners are constructed to see if the orifices are drilled, molded or punched. We looked at other functions as well, like nickel content.

(At the time of this article, we had been able to review a Star grill, a relative newcomer to the customer grill market, which has been creating qualified cooking gear for practically 80 years. Their new entries in the consumer market use in essence the identical burner as DCS: a 14-gauge Stainless Steel Sheet Metal burner. The only distinction we noted was the burner's feeder tube: the DCS is ramped up to the burner tube, whilst the Star's feeder tube is level with the burner tube. For this comparison, use the DCS burner as Star's performance. Where there are differences, we will note them.)

Here's what we located:

Fire Magic: american pacific mortgage

* .240"

* 2 guage

* four lbs., four.6 oz.

* 13, 125 Btu, utilised in pairs

Lynx:

* .240"

* 2 guage

* 8 lbs., x.x oz.

* 25,000 Btu

Alfresco:

* .035"

* 20 guage

* two lbs., two oz.

* 27,000 Btu

DCS:

* .75"

* 14 guage

* 3 lbs., 2.24 oz.

* 25,000 Btu