Since my kettle is outdoors and on the pad full-time now I stopped last night and bought a proper cover for it. In an uncommon flurry of commerce i actually sprang for the 'official' Weber-branded cover.
I'm impressed with the design, the material and the sewing but I was wondering if anyone else had purchased one and questioned the strange storage bag setup?
1) Why do they include a storage bag? Is anyone really going to fold this thing up into 32 perfect rectangles and stuff it in the bag to store it for a few hours or a day while they use their grill? The picture on the packaging shows it hanging on a pegboard on a shop wall? How is it supposed to protect your kettle if it's not over it?
2) why is the bag permanently sewn to the rest of the cover? I look out the back porch at my yard and my grill for hours a day and there's no way I'm going to find that bag dragging on the ground aesthetically acceptable. Maybe there's a valid reason for it but to me it's just weird.
In any case, some careful work with shears solved the issue and I'm certain I'll find use for a good-quality drawstring ditty bag that also happens to be emblazoned with the world's coolest logo