Has anyhone heard a rumor....

[Craig]

@demosthenes9

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[CharliefromLI]

I feel like that lid in video shows thick gasket rim like kamado but Weber won't go ceramic. I see insulated double wall steel grill/smoker Ala Weber broil keg

[captjoe06]

Based on the video it's round.  I don't get the association with the Summit name used in the gas line.  But my guess is that the money people are sick of watching the BGE folks taking stupid money from eager buyers and that they want a piece of that $1000 cooker market and it's ridiculous margins.

Just a guess,  but that's mine.

"Lifetime"- Ceramic as opposed to metal.

Again,  a guess.

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[AZRaptor]

If they want a piece of the high end kamado market it will be ceramic, because a double steel walled kamado, ala Akorn, isn't going to fetch that kind of price. The Summit name would seem to imply the ceramic version to me.

[addicted-to-smoke]

A high end charcoal grill? In the U.S.'s gasser-dominated world? Wow.

I can see it now, endless forum threads abut how folks' $20 craigslist kettle is just as good. No, better actually.

Summit? I'll take a stainless steel kettle if they're offering. That would be badass.

[jamesnomore]

A high end charcoal grill? In the U.S.'s gasser-dominated world? Wow.

I can see it now, endless forum threads abut how folks' $20 craigslist kettle is just as good. No, better actually.

Summit? I'll take a stainless steel kettle if they're offering. That would be badass.

Omg a stainless kettle would be so bad ass!!!

[jkolantern]

Impossible to clean though.

[LaTuFu]

Over in the FB kettle group (which I have learned that while many of you are in there, not everyone over there is on this forum, but I digress) a Weber employee squashed the 26 Performer, iGrill rebranding, and Colored kettle ideas. He did not loop back on the new gas grill or weber kamado suggestions. 

I'm betting some sort of kamado. We have to remember that weber is owned by a venture capital firm now. Those vultures don't care about dink other than profits. If they think that there is money to be made in that segment I can see them going for it.

I just don't think that weber fans are any more inclined to buy a $1k charcoal grill than people who think the BGE is overpriced.

If they come out with one similar to the akorn and price it accordingly, they might have a winner.

If they try to go against the BGE, I predict it goes the way of Trump Vodka.

[CharliefromLI]

If they come out with one similar to the akorn and price it accordingly, they might have a winner.

That's my guess.

[LaTuFu]

Going with a double wall steel cooker and stressing build quality, they will do well against chargrill.

Try to compete with the ceramics, especially at that price level, would be disaster imo.

It would be as bad of an idea as VW thinking they could release a premium auto to compete with Mercedes Benz when they already own Audi. (the terrible Phaeton) .

[mike.stavlund]

Whatever it is, it's making WAY too much white smoke.  ;-)

[Hogsy]

Whatever it is, it's making WAY too much white smoke.  ;-)

Cut the guy in the vid some slack, it's his first time using it😂

[Josh G]

Whatever it is, it's making WAY too much white smoke.  ;-)

Cut the guy in the vid some slack, it's his first time using it😂

Ha!  That's funny. 

[BluesDaddy]

If they come out with one similar to the akorn and price it accordingly, they might have a winner.

If they try to go against the BGE, I predict it goes the way of Trump Vodka.

That is what I think it will be, only better quality - Weber's porcelain coating, maybe with a gas assist starter (there does appear to be a knob of some kind under what looks like a side table to me), double walled, insulated, running around the price that a Big Steel Keg did. I MIGHT buy one of those. Anything in the neighborhood of a BGE and I'll pass as I can't justify spending that kind of money when I can put it as good, or better, food on my 26" kettle and have TONS of money left over for additional toys (and meat).

[ABCbarbecue]

If they come out with one similar to the akorn and price it accordingly, they might have a winner.

If they try to go against the BGE, I predict it goes the way of Trump Vodka.

That is what I think it will be, only better quality - Weber's porcelain coating, maybe with a gas assist starter (there does appear to be a knob of some kind under what looks like a side table to me), double walled, insulated, running around the price that a Big Steel Keg did. I MIGHT buy one of those. Anything in the neighborhood of a BGE and I'll pass as I can't justify spending that kind of money when I can put it as good, or better, food on my 26" kettle and have TONS of money left over for additional toys (and meat).

I truly hope they haven't made a kamado style grill.  They just aren't good smokers.  Ribs cooked on my kettle w/SnS kick my Big Green Egg ribs any day of the week.