Is it possible that the porcelain coverage issues of the Limited Edition red has been present in previous years of colored kettles? Is it possible that due to social media and this Forum these issues have been thrust to the forefront and buyers have become more critical in inspecting them? Case in point,
@Craig had put his kettle together and only after reading about issues inside the leg sockets did he take it apart and inspect it, finding the black porcelain inside instead of red. Is it also possible that all these years kettles have been produced with occasional bare metal in the leg sockets and grate straps? This could explain why some kettles have leg sockets that fall off due to rust and grate straps that totally rust out on some.
Looking at my kettles today, I found many that had partial colored porcelain coverage on the handles and inside the leg sockets. When not the body color of the kettle, there was still mostly black porcelain, but some had a lot of rust inside the sockets.
Every one of my 18" MBH's have missing color coverage on the bowl handles. As you can see, they are not chipped but have black porcelain covering the inside and edges of the handles.
18" red MBH bowl handle
18" lime MBH bowl handle
18"yellow MBH bowl handle
As you can see below, it appears in both of these 90 era kettles that only the sides of the handle straps are covered with the body color. The top of the straps are black porcelain.
1991 N Code lid handle bowl handle
1995 EO Code lid handle
Also, the majority of my kettles have some interesting beauty marks as I call them, in the porcelain.
I am not downplaying the concerns anyone has in regards to their purchases of these new kettles. You have the right to be discriminate as a consumer. I just feel that Weber is getting beat up over this Limited Edition kettle and these issues may have been around for a very long time. We just may not have noticed them.
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