So I finally got to use a one touch kettle. What are my impressions?

[RRRanger99]

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[dbhost]

OK.  I don't care.  Warning, I'm gonna be rude.

Dude you are WAAY over thinking this stuff.
Your skillset makes or breaks the cook.
Not the grill. Rental house grills are the reason
we always BYOG.  A Q220 for the quick stuff
and an 18" or 22" depending on the mood.

Most of the guys here can turn out killer chow on a hot rock
in a campfire if they had to.

A working OT ain't so hard to use.
If it totally sucked customer response would have caused
Weber to abandon it tears ago.

To be fair for low and slow indirect,  I like my 3 wheelers
but a snake works just as well in a OT.

Mild rant over.  Time for a drink.

-Rob

so when are you going to get rude?

I must admit your response actually made me laugh a little bit. My early grilling experiences involved a collapsible cooking grate that you put over a campfire and aluminum foil to create a dome type top sort of like the Weber lid. It's something our scoutmaster showed us when I was a kid. And I cook that way when camping for years.

I think what amazes me more than anything else is how new this one touch based Grill is and how poor it operated. Admittedly my grills at Home are kept in the garage with the exception of the Smokey Joe which is still kept more or less out of the weather.

Overall you are very right that if the majority of customers found a usability problem or an unacceptable reliability issue with the One Touch system Weber would have dropped it like a hot potato long ago.

[YardBurner]

Well, for me , it felt rude as I typed it.
I guess not so much really.
I've always tried to avoid flame wars as much as possible.
We had some real nasty ones when I was a mod
at the old Steven Raichlen Barbecue Bible blog.
The new blog is reddit based and it sucks.
When they switched we lost 10 years of great posts and info.
Such a waste.

A poorly maintained grill is enough to drive
anyone nutz.  You can bet at a rental,
tons of over sauced BBQ chicken, the Sweet Baby Rays
dripped down, caramelized and locked that thing up.
A One Touch or 3 wheeler would have suffered the same fate.

[Filibuster]

   I find your judgement of all OT systems based on one "F"d up OT funny. When you get one clean it and cook on it then give us a real opinion. This is a waste.

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[LightningBoldtz]

Most of my cooks are on OT grills.

[dbhost]

Most of my cooks are on OT grills.

So what are the tips and tricks to make life with the OT system easy? Particularly in keeping the sweeps mooving freely...

[dbhost]

Well, for me , it felt rude as I typed it.
I guess not so much really.
I've always tried to avoid flame wars as much as possible.
We had some real nasty ones when I was a mod
at the old Steven Raichlen Barbecue Bible blog.
The new blog is reddit based and it sucks.
When they switched we lost 10 years of great posts and info.
Such a waste.

A poorly maintained grill is enough to drive
anyone nutz.  You can bet at a rental,
tons of over sauced BBQ chicken, the Sweet Baby Rays
dripped down, caramelized and locked that thing up.
A One Touch or 3 wheeler would have suffered the same fate.

Fair enough.

I hadn't ever considered sauces on BBQ as, well I am Texan, and am trying to do Paleo, so I tend to think, and do dry rubs... Although there are some sauces that are paleo that I have been trying to work with... Not very sweet but more savory...

[kettlebb]

Most of my cooks are on OT grills.

So what are the tips and tricks to make life with the OT system easy? Particularly in keeping the sweeps mooving freely...

Every two hours, go outside and operate the sweeps.

Seriously, I've never had them freeze up on a cooker. I keep my grills covered and always use drip pans or foil under my cook grate.

It seems the ones that are uncovered and not well cared for are the ones that will stick.


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