While the Weber Spirit II E-310 is Weber’s entry-level gas grill, it packs a lot of punch performance-wise and was our best-reviewed gas grill for putting gorgeous sear marks on burgers. It’ll also thoroughly cook your chicken and create picture-perfect asparagus spears. This is a grill that will stand the test of time to give you enjoyable BBQs for years to come. With only two burners on this model, cooking with indirect heat means the food gets heat from only one side while it sits over the other, inactive burner. So you have to maneuver and rotate your chicken or roast to make sure it cooks evenly throughout.
This feature allows you to roast meat (a whole chicken, for example) very evenly, yielding a flavor that some people prefer to that of grilled food. Aside from its superior cooking power, this grill has some wonderful features, which include a Bluetooth-enabled thermometer that will send alerts directly to your smartphone. The lid is also specially designed to keep smoke away from your face while you grill. The side-mounted propane tank, gas meter, sturdy side tables, and cooking grates are also a perfect fit and very aesthetically pleasing, as well as being easy to put together. It offers the same quality as our top pick, but it’s more compact. The E-210 has a cast-aluminum firebox, an enameled steel lid and open cart, and two side tables.
A red hot bed of fire on a charcoal grill creates a blend of radiant, convection and conduction heat that can out-sear most gas burners, particularly in this price range. Gas grill manufacturers often rely on cast iron conduction to amplify the gas burner heat and at least add some brown sear weber spirit 2 marks to food surfaces. Some grillers have discovered a cast iron pan or griddle on their gasser works even better and effectively sears the entire meat surface. Below is an older set of Weber cast iron grates. Note that the cast iron grates are not as wide as the opening between them.
You can’t move for the stuff in the UK and Europe. Not only does it taste good (I just caught myself daydreaming about it as I write), but because it’s cheese, it’s a really easy way to test any non-stick claims on a grill. If a random person walked into our offices off the street and demanded the best grill they could get, I’d point them to this.
To get the longest life out of your grill, be sure to clean and care for it properly. Click here for more info on conduction, convection and radiant cooking. Additionally, the relatively small openings between the grates prevent items like shrimp from falling into the fire. Cooking temp on the Spirit II is pretty even, with the back of the grill running slightly hotter than the front. On a cold day with ambient temperatures in the upper 30°F range and all three burners on the low setting, Spirit II registered temps of about 410°F in front and 440°F in back. With all burners on High, temps were about 600°F front and 680°F back.