Weber Spirit II S-310 45000001 Grill Review

Serious, dedicated hobbyists might find it a little lacking, but for almost everyone else, this grill is the benchmark. The sleek open-cart design provides additional room and accessibility of your grilling tools. All orders under $99.00 are subject to our flat rate $9.95 shipping fee, regardless of quantity or size. Flat Rate shipping applies to standard locations within the contiguous 48 states. Spotix Inc. reserves the right to choose the delivery type, carrier, and service level of each shipment when standard shipping is selected.

Better burners are covered for 10 years or more. An indication of the sturdiness of the gas grill, based on our rigidity test and judgments of our expert testers. Factors include grate material, wheels or casters for moving Blackstone Adventure the grill, and useful features such as electronic ignitor. Evaluates the temperature after a 10 minute preheat using thermocouples. It also gives an indication how quickly the grill reaches its maximum temperature.

All in all, you can say that the results of our Weber Spirit II E-310 review indicate that this model is as good as people say it is. Effective as they’ve been praised for being, the burner weber spirit 2 tubes have a 10-year warranty on them. But, besides all this generosity from Weber, what else does the grill have to offer? Or is it just another regular grill with a lot of good marketing?

And it outdid or equaled the competition in grilling barbecue chicken and whole roasted chickens with crispy golden skin. The aim of this test is to assess how the grill handles thicker cuts of meat and slower, more subtle cooking. We used a spatchcock chicken slathered in BBQ sauce, another test of whether food sticks to the grill. We cooked it for 40 minutes, using the two side burners on a low heat, with the middle burner off to create indirect heat. I speculated it may be a cost cutting measure, but Weber responded, “the tank was moved to the side of the grill for easy access. The open cart was designed to have easy access to tools in the rack below”.

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And in 2022 we surveyed over a thousand Wirecutter readers about their grill use. It’s easier to build and more reliable, igniting without fuss every time. The food it makes is better, and depending on sales, it costs $200 less. The Spirit II is the successor to the original Spirit E-310.

The original Weber Spirit grill range was launched back in the 1990s and quickly became a firm favorite in the compact grill arena. Many successful models were released, each one providing more features and greater quality than the last. Starting a charcoal grill is significantly different from a gas grill. Here, we’ll teach you how to start a charcoal grill & light the coal. To begin with, there are so many physical and performance attributes that stand this grill out among the rest.

Consider getting an inexpensive infrared thermometer to gauge the temperature of your cooking surface. We didn’t obsess over British thermal units, or Btu. The total count on three-burner grills tends to vary between 30,000 Btu and 40,000 Btu. Our research, however, convinced us that whether those British thermal units are applied efficiently, steadily, and evenly across the grates is just as important, if not more so. This grill’s overall compact size suits almost any patio or deck, yet its three-burner grilling surface is big enough to cook a complete meal for a family or a dozen burgers for a party. This was the best chicken of the two days of testing.