So, instead of using a stainless steel brush, grab for a different one. A great alternative would be a regular brush with soft thistles. There are flavorizer bars that catch drippings while you’re grilling to add the all-too-good smoky flavor to your food. However, if the flavorizer bars aren’t able to get them all, for some reason, the grease management system on the grill comes into play. Located under the cookbox, the grease management system ensures proper cleanliness on this grill. Evenness of heating over the grill’s surface at the highest and lowest setting using all main burners plus the evenness after a 10 minute preheat, using thermocouples.
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In that case, you should get a stainless steel brush. This test helps us to find out what the least temperature is for this grill. It does so by calculating the difference between all the average heating temperatures on the burners when they’re high or low. In this regard, the grill performed very well again. We conducted this test to see how well the grill can slow-cook meals even when the meals aren’t directly on the flame. This model demonstrated excellent indirect cooking capacity and aced our test pretty well yet again.
We also like that the base sits on four casters—as opposed to the Spirit II models’ two fixed wheels—making it easier for folks of varying abilities to maneuver the cart around their patio. The Weber Spirit II E-310 provides an unrivaled combination of top-notch grilling performance, a versatile three-burner char broil performance design, durability, and a relatively affordable price. During the first 45 minutes, with each grill’s lid down, we occasionally checked for charring and redistributed pieces as needed. Then we flipped the chicken parts, slathered on a coating of barbecue sauce, and closed the lid for another 15 minutes.
Although this grill can still accommodate a cut-up whole chicken or six to eight burger patties at a time, cooking for a large crowd means standing at the grill for a few hours. If you have limited outdoor space or don’t want to commit to a larger grill, the Weber Spirit II E-210 is a smaller, two-burner version of our pick, and it’s a great choice. We checked each grill’s ability to maintain a uniform, gentle cook by grilling a cut-up whole chicken over medium heat. The Weber Spirit II E-210 is a smaller, two-burner version of our top pick; the materials and build are identical. The E-210 is 4 inches narrower, and its cooking area is 15% smaller, but it still provides enough space to snugly fit a cut-up whole chicken or six to eight burger patties.
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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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.
The advantage of stainless steel over the porcelainized cast-iron grates on the Spirit II E-310 is its resistance to rust and corrosion. The E-210 is a great first gas grill purchase, and it’s a good option for folks who have limited outdoor space. Porcelain-enameled, cast-iron cooking grates retain even heat for the best tasting food. The porcelain-enamel coating is easy to clean and built to last. This gas grill is built to fit small spaces and features a powerful GS4 grilling system, iGrill capability, and convenient side tables for placing serving trays.
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.