Very nice! I have the older e210 at home and love it. I cooked on a 3 burner version of one like yours while on vacation. Used it everyday for a week. It was a grate cooker.
Do your burners run side to side or front to back?
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The burners run back to front. I quess thats good so you can just cook on one side of the grill.
I was thinking of removing the flavorizer bars and getting a rack above the burners to add lava rocks like when I was a kid. Think it might even out the heat.
What do you think?
I'm all for interesting modifications, but replacing the Flavorizers with a rack of lava rocks is attempting to outsmart Weber engineers. How much is nostalgia worth to you?
I'm no gasser expert so I'm sure the burgers would still be fine, but I don't recall too many people considering the types of sophisticated cooks that can be done on a charcoal grill, being done on a gas grill until Weber introduced the Genesis. Flavorizers were the key reason why it was revolutionary.
Lava rocks were the best anyone could do
until Flavorizers (and their myriad copy cats since ...) were invented. Flavorizers of course got their name from the second purpose, i.e. to allow a way for grease to drip down and come back up as smoke and onto the food without constant flare ups.
-- The heat is already "evened out" some by the Flavorizers, since flame can't directly travel to the grate constantly.
-- The cast iron grates (not to mention the addition of your Grill Grates on top?) will help even out hot spots.
-- Using both burners of course helps create even heat.
-- Many things cook best indirect; you would rarely want "even heat" across the grate, regardless . Set up a hot zone on one side, and use the other burner on low or even off.
-- If none of that satisfies, there are always 3-burner models out there. My understanding is that you'd get a larger hot or larger not-as-hot zones, or just more BTUs if everything's a steak?
FYI, The very first Genesis had a deep cook box with Flavorizers positioned both horizontally and vertically (in 2 layers, 13 bars for 3 burner models ...). They for sure had even heat, (and higher parts cost.)
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