The grill has the dimensions 14.5 x 27 x 16.5 inches with the lid closed and weighs only 30 pounds, making it portable enough to take it with you in your RV. The key to a good barbeque lies in the quality of the meat, the recipe, and of course, the company. How else will you get a perfectly tender yet smoky piece of steak? If you do not own a reliable and trust-worthy grill, your barbeque experience could be quite frustrating.
And for speedy clean up, it has a removable drip pan. You can cook about six burgers at a time on the Q 1000’s 189 square inch grilling surface. 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. weber charcoal grill 1200 Propane BBQ -A gas, portable grill with porcelain-enameled cast iron cooking grate, push button ignition, and infinite control burner valve.
The construction of the grill makes it tough as well as stylish. As with all Weber BBQ grills, intelligent design coupled with quality construction produces an attractive cooker that works great. The heavy cast aluminum housing holds and distributes heat while the cast iron grates can do a decent job of searing. In 2014 Weber split the cooking grate to accomodate an optonal cast iron griddle on one side.
However the Traveler, which is just a little bigger than the Q2200 is absolutely portable and has a much improved cart and side table. My experience with weber genesis 2 grills is that they get hot enough to grill steaks properly, have even heat distribution and are highly reliable. I do not own a Q2200 but do have the Q1200 and Q3200, and I enjoy both of them very much. Design flaw – you can only use smallest propane because frame limits size of cylinder. The Q is much smaller, but not noticeable when it comes to cooking.
Weber says it holds 15 burgers at once but I suspect that would be a tight fit. The enameled cast iron cooking grates are easier to clean and distribute heat more efficiently. The Weber Q 1200 is a unique portable grill option, mainly in terms of design.
The Traveler is large, but highly portable, and packs serious searing power. But even understanding the reasons behind the weight does not benefit this grill’s portability. Again, considering this grill against all other tabletop models in this review, the Q 1200 “packs down” to a less-than-reasonable 3.2 cubic-feet. We put that phrase in quotations because the only thing that packs away are the side tables, which do conveniently fold up securely underneath the lid. Purchased at bjs problem is the 16 oz propane cans do not fit without forcing the regulator to the side because the can is forced sideways by the handle. I have seen this complaint in other reviews WEBER needs to get off their arse and fix this.
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, weber q and likely to last a very long time. The core aspects of these two grills are nearly identical. Both types of grills feature a burner that wraps around the underneath a set of heavy duty cast iron cooking grates.
After about 15 minutes of preheating both the Q grills and Traveler will have grate temperatures approaching 600F. By the way, I realize that everyone has different needs for their grills and that styling preferences are purely subjective. I am simply sharing my opinions on these grills after quite a lot of time cooking on both of them. GearLab is founded on the principle of honest, objective, reviews. Our experts test thousands of products each year using thoughtful test plans that bring out key performance differences between competing products. And, to assure complete independence, we buy all the products we test ourselves.