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Rating:  - Great little grill
I've owned a Weber Go-Anywhere for a couple of years now and it's been a regular part of my outdoor cooking. Gets up to temperature quickly and is great for grilling simple stuff like salmon, chicken and sausages. The food doesn't taste *quite* as good as my mesquite-fired kettle BBQ but the Go-Anywhere also doesn't take 30 minutes to fire up.The piezzo lighter flaked out on my Weber a couple of months after I bought it but it's pretty easy to light with a match. As another review mentioned, they do rust pretty quickly but they're really sturdy and basic. It grills as well as it did when I first bought it. Strongly recommended for folks looking for a small, no-nonsense (or frills) gas BBQ.
Rating: - I've owned three - while my expensive grill sits un-used
I bought one of these things ten years ago and despite twice replacing it with big, traditional-looking (and very expensive) grills I keep coming back to this one. In fact, when we bought our latest one at a local fireplace/grill store, the owner just couldn't stop talking about this cheap little grill. He confided to me in a low voice that if I were to lift the lid of his own $2500 home gas barbecue, I'd find this little gem sitting inside because it's all he uses too.Why? It's not ease of cleaning or durability or any of that stuff (they rust out after a few years sitting on the porch). And you'd better buy a big propane bottle with an adapter hose if you don't want to those little gas cylinders to suddenly empty out on you mid-meal while you're cooking for guests... No, the reason I adore this is that it just plain grills better than anything else on the market - and we've tried a lot of them. My wife, the culinary school grad, thinks it's the "flavorizer" that does it (the metal pan that replaces those awful lava rocks). When we grill salmon we just cover that metal pan with alderwood chips and let the smoke penetrate the fish while it grills with the lid on tight - flat out beating every restaurant or neighborbood grilled fish ever made. Friends of mine simply won't cook salmon for us. Even though we virtually never clean the thing, it simply does the best job flavor-wise of all our grills. If you crank it up to high for 10 minutes, then grill with the top closed (never open) you get very consistent heat which is the secret to good grilling. Some cookbook author who writes barbecue books constantly repeats the phrase "Know Your Fire" like a mantra. This fire is 100% consistent, heats up in minutes (again, no lava rocks to soak up heat) and produces superb results for us. If you know your fire, this is the fire to know.
Rating:  - Better that cheaper inports!
This little grill is a very nice design. It was very easy to put together and the parts seem to be very high quality with the exception of the regulator valve. The valve seems very loose but works ok. You must be very careful when screwing the propane tank on because the regulator casting threads can strip easily as the metal is soft. That hasn't happened to me, I lubricated them and am very careful when screwing the tank on. The flame did blow out when set to medium or low. It wasn't very windy out at all when this happened. My advice, just use it on high, it doesn't get as hot as a larger grill using coals, but it gets the job done. I looked at many portable grilles before buying this one. Many of them were similar but the overall higher quality of this one was worth the few extra dollars. The BIGGEST advantage of buying the Weber is that if and when you need a replacement part, you will be able to get it from Weber.
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