Getting a new gas grill today.

[MarkC]

We had a big green egg back in 1980. My dad still has it but it has plants growing in it. I remember getting it started with a shop vac set on exhaust to blow on the coals. It looked like a kiln in there.

[cleancloths]

If you have not done it yet, buy a TEC grill. No brickettes or anything like that, it uses either propane or natural gas and has a two ceramin blocks each one with 15,000 holes. It creates infrared heat, not flame. It cooks hotter than anything on the market. To cook a chicken breast you cook it 2 minutes on each side on high, turn it to medium and finish cooking. The outside is brown and black while the inside is juicey and barely cooked. Be forewarned they are not cheap.

[gwrace1]

I'm also a charcoal guy but like the convenience of gas. So I compromised with this Weber. The great taste of charcoal with the convenience of a gas lighter.

http://www.weber.com/bbq/pub/grill/2...coal/cg_p.aspx

[Sherra]

They've "tweeked" the eggs a little since then. No shop vac required! It takes about 5 minutes to get the coals going (we've got an electric starter for ours) and about another 5 minutes after that to get up to steak cooking temps. We got ours in March...so far we've made a whole chicken, ribs, grilled pineapple, steaks, fish, shrimp, burgers, and this weekend I'm probably going to make some cookies on it so I don't have to heat up our kitchen. We'll probably end up doing our turkey on it this year in November too.