Just look at those marks along with all that smokey flavor from slowly cooking over those low & slow smoking wood pellets (a mix of Cherry & Hickory). The side burner looks neat, but I don’t really see too much use for it. This is something you’re going to need for sure if you have veggies or meat smoking at low & slow temperatures! In terms of grill testing, I cooked ribs on low heat, whole chickens on medium indirect heat, and a bunch of burgers on high.
This thing gets sticky when you rub sauce & oil onto it like crazy so you can easily get your meat to stick to the grate. Since we had to wait until every burger got to 145 degrees, many of them were more on the well-done char broil performance side by the time each test ended. Even so, they had a nice char on the outside and were pretty tasty. That was generally the case across all of our grills, except for the Char-Broil Commercial Double Header.
While the burgers cooked, we kept an eye out for flare-ups—which can char the meat and create acrid smoke—and looked at the evenness of cooking across the grates. After about 10 minutes of cooking, we compared how well each grill had seared the burgers, and we looked for excessive charring or patties that were still unacceptably raw. For our 2022 update, we relied mostly on research and reporting, as well as our rigorous testing from years prior. We combed big-box home-improvement stores—including Home Depot and Lowe’s—and Big Apple BBQ in New York to view anything new.
After giving the ribs 10 minutes to rest, we gave ’em a try. They were tender and pretty juicy, but not falling off the bone. Next time I’d try cooking them on indirect low heat on the main rack to see if they’d be even more tender. The Spirit II is similar to the $850 Weber Genesis II E-310.
Plastic and stainless steel may prove more durable than paint coatings. Finally, although we looked at grills from high-end makers such as Hestan, Lynx/Sedona, and MHP for comparison (and a sense of what’s possible in a grill, for a price), we did not test them. Most of them cost four or five figures, well above our established price range of $400 to $900.
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