by grillrepair on July 17, 2010
portable cart bbq by charbroil
Char-Broil is one of the most well-known and respected names in outdoor cooking equipment and accessories. Char-Broil manufactures grills and a variety of related cooking products. The biggest brand in grilling, it is also the oldest. Since 1948, the company’s products have sold in retail stores throughout the country. Char-Broil products can be found in specialty, discount, mass merchant stores and home centers. Incredibly popular, more then 2 million Char-Broil grills were sold in 2008 alone.
The Char-Broil company is based out of Columbus, Georgia where their headquarters are located. They also have a satellite office in China for their international retail operations. Char-Broil sells a variety of grills and accessories including infrared products, outdoor fireplaces, smokers, fryers, rubs and sauces.
char broil gas bbq grill
Aside from Char-Boil grills, other brands managed by the company include New Braunfels Smoker Company, Famous Oklahoma Joe’s Smoker Company and Thermos.
Individuals looking to find replacement parts for Char-Broil grills will be able to find exactly what they need from a variety of sources, including CharBroil. It’s not always necessary to go out and purchase a new grill when barbeque grill parts go bad. A replacement burner, grate or ignition can have your grill back up and running in no time at all.
Char-Broil grills are available in a wide range of models from top-of the line commercial barbecues to inexpensive small barbecues. Manufacturing grills since 1948, the company knows what they are doing. They craft high-quality grills. However, like any other good, it becomes necessary to either repair (when that’s possible) it or replace them. When the latter is required, it is important to purchase Char-Broil replacement parts from a quality vendor. We at, Grill-Repair.com, are exactly that.
char broil stainless steel commercial bbq grill
Whether, you are looking for a chrome steel cooking grill, cross over tools, burners, rock grates, heat angles or plates, we have them and they are perfectly suited for your Char-Broil grill because they are Char-Broil parts. Our prices are affordable and cheaper then you’ll see at over-priced grill part replacement websites. Our free shipping helps to further cut costs for you, our valued customer.
We offer you the opportunity for you to “save” your Char-Broil grill from the dumpster. Instead of getting rid of it, repair it. We have parts for just about every model, making it easy and much less costly to fix your grill rather then replace it. Why throw away a perfectly good grill when you don’t have to? Well, don’t. Choose the Char-Broil replacement part you need and we’ll ship it to you for free.
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by grillrepair on July 9, 2010
european outdoor kitchen room
indoor - outdoor outdoor kitchen in europe
This article was sent to me from a traveller through Finland.
Why not get innovative with your new outdoor kitchen by looking to other parts of the world for inspiration! Countries, such as Finland, which are accustomed to long and harsh winters but whose people love being in the outdoors and cooking together have gotten pretty creative with the way they set up their outdoor barbecues. Grilling houses, also known as barbeque huts, are small wooden rooms built in one’s yard and characterized by a central grill and benches all around for a group to enjoy a nice dinner together regardless of the weather! This cozy place is great for family time, a get together with friends, or a romantic escape for two. Is it chilly out but you don’t want to be stuck in the house? Well, build a fire and have some s’mores in your relaxing and beautiful little getaway! Or, perhaps you can utilize your own charming cottage when it is just too hot outside for some shade. Either way, this Finnish secret is now yours to build off of!
I thought a few of you may get a kick out of that. As outdoor rooms become more popular here in the states I have more of our custom outdoor kitchen customers asking for some kind of gazebo, pergola, tiki hut, etc.
custom outdoor kitchen and gazebo, granite and dry-stacked ledge stone
In Florida where we build custom outdoor kitchen grill islands and sell built in bbq grills and built in accessories we get some harsh weather. Of course we make the news when a hurricane comes through but we also have calm days that pick up gale force gusts. We lose a few tree limbs and our highways clog up with fear but the weather in Florida is tropical and sometimes unpredictable. For that reason the “simple” outdoor rooms that make the design shows and magazines do not work here in Florida. There are many places where archetectural foam can be used for columns and for cross pieces in gazebos and pergolas but a hurricane or gale force storm will ruin a structure built like that. In florida we have to build a much stronger structure when we build gazebos and pergolas. Tiki huts are built by the seminole indians and are secure. However the hurricane laws that keep us safe in a bad storm also make the Florida outdoor room very expensive as a lot more concrete and steel
outdoor kitchen grill island under construction
has to go into the ground to make the structure secure.
custom outdoor kitchen and tiki hut
Most of the custom outdoor kitchen grill islands we build here in florida are built up against the house so the overhang of the porch allows the home owner to continue grilling on the rain. At my house I just do not grill in the rain. I can see the idea in Finland because if I sit out a day or two for rain I do not go crazy. If I had to sit out for six months of snow, I would have to move to florida.
The outdoor kitchen above was built away from the home on a poured concrete deck that already existed when we were commissioned to build the custom grill island. We had to drill perfect holes in the deck to pour concrete in the ground for the tiki hut supports. Once they were in the ground and perfectly “plum” we could construct the custom outdoor kitchen around the tiki support. This provides a nice effect as the posts come up through the counter top of the grill island. Each side of the outdoor kitchen is approximately sixteen feet long.
custom granite fabrication in outdoor kitchen to wrap the tiki hut support post
This image shows the countertop. The important detail about the counter is that when granite slabs are custom fabricated for an outdoor kitchen there are seams that are mortared with a special grout made for hardening like granite. When posts are coming through the counter it makes these seams difficult to hide because it is obvious that the seam must allow the post to run through the counter. In order to mask the obvious seams we notched the granite from behind so there was no seam in the front of the post where the chef and guests would see it. Instead the notch left a gap behind the post, the width of the post which we fit with a small section of granite. In this image the light makes the area behind the post slightly off color because of the shadow of the post.
complete custom outdoor kitchen design image
The final outdoor kitchen is amazing. The funny thing abut this particular outdoor kitchen job is that the customer came to me becasue of a job we did for her neighbor. The neighbor built a gigantic mansion of a home in a lot that had been empty for many years. There was an outdoor kitchen up against the house with a built in 30″ infrared Solaire gas grill and another outdoor kitchen and bar in the yard built under a gazebo that was a mini replica of the house.
This customer had to look into this amazing backyard every time they were in their own backyard. They came to me to design something large enough to hold the attention of their guests and provide a lot of grilling area and serving area. There is a 42″ built in infrared Solaire gas grill with a combination tank drawer & utility drawers below the grill. There are two refrigerators, a sink, built in insulated ice bin, a lot of counter space and a lot of storage space below.
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by grillrepair on July 8, 2010
The Ducane Products company started out as Ducane Brothers Metal Fabricating in 1946. The company moved three years later to Little Ferry, New Jersey, where they started making and selling warm air furnaces. They changed the name to the Ducane Company in 1968 and moved the base of operations to Barnwell, South Carolina. By 1975, after deciding that grills were starting to go downhill in design and quality, they started making their own line of Ducane Gas Grills.
For thirty years, this company grew to be one of the highest quality and most popular grill brands in the United States. Their facility was state of the art, their grills made from the finest materials and considered superior in weather resistant materials. They only used the highest quality stainless steel, die cast aluminum and had a baked enamel finish. Each and every one of their gas grills were designed to stand up to the harshest weather conditions, and deal with the best barbeque recipes and flavor.
While most companies use stainless steel parts for their gas grills, Ducane used high quality stainless steel made in the U.S. Other countries, such as China, where many manufacturers get their products from, don’t produce the type of quality stainless useful outdoors for many years of grilling. Even though these grills may be cheaper, their low quality makes the grills less durable, won’t last the tests of time and their usefulness with grilling is diminished. Ducane only used only 304 stainless steel in all their stainless steel grill components. They also used a cast aluminum hood and firebox. While this material isn’t as nice looking, it often lasts longer than 304 stainless steel.
Duncane always used a double layer stainless steel tray for the briquettes that not only supported briquettes for conducting more heat at the grilling surface the briquette tray also acted like a heat shield with its offset openings distributing even heat. These were designed to offset the columns that supported the briquettes, and moved heat better through the box for a more even heat distribution. Between the radiant heat and better distribution, an original Ducane gas grill stood out as a better heating and faster cooking grill than products that were on the market at this time.
Ducane briquette tray was double layered and offset for heat distributions and added heat for grilling on the original ducane grill parts
Ducane did make an older line of grills which was improved upon to create the legendary barbecue grills that made Ducane so popular. They were the innovators for many of the parts that you see in other grills today like the warming racks which control the position of the food keeping it away from the actual cooking surface, yet still maintaining your items at hot temperatures. The original Ducane cooking surface was wider than any other barbecue on the market and shaped convex at the surface to maximize searing temperature to seal moisture in grilled food. Flavor is better when grills are designed to use barbecuing heat for searing the food not collecting dry heat trapped in the hood of the unit and overcooking the food with hot air.
Ducane original gas grill cooking grates were made for searing in moisture while distributing heat.
One of the biggest problems that many grills have is that the only way to check the temperature would be to open the hood; any heat that had accumulated would instantly be sucked out and if you were cooking a whole chicken or slow cooking some potatoes this would often mean longer cooking times. In order to solve this problem, Ducane gas grills came with a lid thermometer to keep a constant watch over how hot the inside is. While these may need to be replaced, they are very useful and convenient. Not exactly an amazing development today but barbeque grills dod not always come with thermometers in the hood.
Another ground breaking innovation for the Ducane Gas Grill was the gas rotisserie back burner. These burners created a blue flame just below a series of stainless louvers, forcing the heat directly towards the rotisserie spit rod. While many products today incorporate an infrared burner for the back burner Ducane was the first to come out with this design.
As time wore on, many manufacturers continued making poorer quality products, using materials of poor quality that sold cheaper. Unfortunately for the Ducane family company many Americans were (are) buying cheap barbecues of poor design and inferior quality. Ducane didn’t sell $5000. grills but they were not $100. barbecues either. The Ducane family BBQ grills existed in between the very cheap and the very expensive gas grills. The company went bankrupt several years ago and was bought out by Weber in 2000. While you can still buy the Ducane brand name, the new Ducane gas barbecues are imported from overseas like so many other barbeque grills today and are not as high of quality as the previous models. The Ducane grills owned from the original manufacturing by the Ducane family are still in use and replacement burners, cooking grates, heat shields, ignitors and briquette trays are still available for repairs.
A new ducane barbeque grill made by weber in 2010
While the Ducane gas BBQ grill tagline of “Buy Your Last Grill First” may not mean the barbecues will last forever, they are still grilling having outlived the parent company.
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by grillrepair on July 6, 2010
This solaire infrared gas grill on a cart is SOL-AGBQ-42c
The advent of infrared heating helped businesses everywhere heat their stores and warehouses more efficiently and effectively. The power of infrared heat is now in a grill form that is functional for residential homes thanks to Solaire Infrared Grilling Systems. This company is an offshoot of Rasmussen Gas Logs and Grills. Rasmussen is a family owned manufacturer founded in 1907 making fireplace tools. Four generations later, Rasmussen is still creating fireplace tools, but offer a wide variety of other products. These products include highly crafted gas logs, gas heaters, and of course infrared grills.
Solaire’s unique systems deliver high heat to lock in juices for more flavor in every bite. These grills can preheat in 3 minutes. With the quick and flavorful infrared burner grilling can become an every day event not just for weekends. The secret of these grills lie within the infrared technology. The infrared grill burner provides higher gas efficiency, has fewer flare ups, is more convenient, and can provide the heat of charcoal grilling without the messy cleanup. Infrared technology heats your food directly while other barbecues transfer heat in the air so all of the heat radiates directly to what you are grilling.
These models come from the store with many features. Some of the features include folding side shelves, electronic push button rapid start BBQ ignitors and American made stainless steel construction with no mechanical fasteners. Some models include rear infrared rotisserie kits and burners. Solaire infrared grills can be retrofitted with a natural gas conversion which is included in every grill sold. Additionally, there is a model for every use from several different portable infrared models to many sizes of portable cart grills and built in infrared gas grill heads. The casual griller can opt to have the 27″ grill, the 27″ deluxe grill, the 27″ deluxe infravection grill or the 27″ deluxe infrared grill with rotisserie and the hardcore griller can get the 56″ with built in refrigerated cart.
These grills work so well that the Thanksgiving turkey was rotisserie last year. To do this, turn on the infrared rotisserie back burner if available (if not, off-set the grill burners). Spit the bird and balance the load. Baste with olive oil and heat for 15 minutes to get the juices really flowing. Take the BBQ pan and fill with water, or beer if you prefer. This will act as a convection heat and turns the water into steam, basting the turkey automatically. Refill the tray as needed, the goal is to get the bird to around 165 degrees on the inside. The whole process should take about two hours and thirty minutes for a fifteen pound turkey. This was a succulent turkey that is sure to please any amount of guests.
solaire infrared gas grill built in to an outdoor kitchen in south florida
With a Solaire Infrared grill, the possibilities are endlesss. Infrared burners are the pinnacle of grilling technology and all the major (read: expensive) steakhouses use infrared burner grills to sear steak and fish. However, where the Solaire infrared gas grill is truly versatile is in the control valve/infrared burner design. The design allows an infrared burner to be removed by simply pulling the casing free of a tension bracket. Removed, the infrared burner can be replaced with a more typical barbeque convectional (blue flame) burner. Although the valve design allows a Solaire infrared grill to be turned down to much lower temperatures than any infrared competitors, for really low heat the infrared burners can be removed easily replaced with blue-flame burners that barbeque well for beer-can oultry, smoking ribs or anything else that need 175 – 200 degrees. This low heat is not possible with other infrared grill mnufacturers.
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by grillrepair on July 1, 2010
1.Dynamic Cooking Systems
Dynamic Cooking Systems (DCS) is one the country’s best manufacturers of indoor, outdoor cooking systems and accessories. In particular, their grills and related accessories are amongst the markets best. Established in 1989, DCS has more than 20 years experience crafting fine grills and food preparation products.
DCS has on staff, top-tier designers and engineers, many whom are the best in the industry. Their hardworking and innovative product development department help keep the company atop the outdoor grilling market. Individuals who choose to invest in products manufactured by Dynamic Cooking Systems will find commercial-quality, high end grills and cooking products and accessories.
In 2004, DCS was sold to Fisher & Paykel Appliances. This highly respected and global company has helped take DCS to the next level. Fisher & Paykel are one of the leading brands in New Zealand and Australia. Their product line is available in an impressive number of countries over 40.
Headquartered right here in the United States, Huntington Beach, California, DCS and Fisher & Paykel together have become one of the most respected manufactures of commercial quality, indoor and outdoor cooking systems and accessories. DCS products are available in more than 2500 storefronts in North America, including www.Grill-Repair.com.
Looking To Get The Most Out of Your DCS Grill: Give These Recipes A Try!
Simple Succulent Salmon
Ingredients:
4-6 Salmon Steaks
Sauce
1 TBS Lemon Juice
3 TBS Butter (melted)
1 TBS White Wine Vinegar
¼ Tsp. Garlic Salt
¼ Tsp. Salt
¼ Tsp. Grated Lemon Peel
Grilling Instructions:
Gather all of the sauce ingredients and combine. Stir thoroughly. Brush both sides of the salmon steaks with sauce (generously). Use a barbeque cover or make a foil tent over the salmon. Grill for roughly 6-8 minutes per side. Consider the thickness of the salmon steaks. Thicker steaks will take longer to grill. Baste throughout cooking time. Turn salmon over once during cooking process. Spread additional sauce mixture on the fish after you turn it. Steaks should be done when the fish flakes easily with a fork.
Quick Marinated Chicken
Ingredients:
4 Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breast Halves
Marinade
¼ C Dijon Mustard
2 TBS Lemon Juice
1 ½ Tsp. Worcestershire Sauce
¼ Black Pepper
Grilling Instructions:
Combine the marinade ingredients. Spread on each side of the chicken breasts. Place breasts in dish or on a plate. Marinated for 15 minutes. If you have more time, allow the breasts to sit in the refrigerator for 1-4 hours. When ready to prepare, grill chicken uncovered over medium coals. Turn once. Cooking time should take 10-15 minutes or until juices from the chicken are clear. Add your favorite barbeque sauce and enjoy!
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