Best gas grills under $500

YOUR FIRST GAS GRILL UNDER 500 dollars

Someone is cautious at first, takes a cheap, more or less functional grill, tries it, realizes what a pleasure it is, and after a year buys a device from one of the leading manufacturers. Tactics, on the one hand, is justified, but on the other hand, it is more costly in the end, since even a budget stationary gas grill will cost 500 dollars and more. To this amount, you need to add the cost of the next grill from the range of top brands, as a result, the amount increases to at least $1,500. For this money, you can immediately, without a trial period, take a great device with excellent functionality, which will be designed for 4-6 people (this is optimal, but it can feed more people). For 2-4 people, you can take a similar grill for approximately $1000.

Some of our customers, at the first glance at a gas grill, think that this is a complex technique designed exclusively for professional use in a cafe, restaurant, and it takes a long time to learn how to work on it. Not at all, it is enough to cook different dishes on it three or four times, and you will understand how to communicate with the grill. In our work, we see that as soon as a person gets involved, he stops using the barbecue, stoves, smokehouses and other devices that are usually built into brick barbecues. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid to buy a more advanced model right away. On it, you will definitely be able to cook better than even on the best gas grills under 500.

Primo Oval G 420

In the premium segment, there is another very interesting model that is somewhat out of the circle of classic gas grills. This is because its body is not made of metal, but of ceramics. This is the Primo Oval G 420, the world's first ceramic gas grill. It is made in the USA by Primo, a company that specializes in ceramic charcoal grills. You can read about the magical properties of ceramics in our article on ceramic grills. We wrote a separate article about the Primo brand itself and its very interesting grills.

Oval G420 ceramics work in the same way as in coal models, only the heat source in this case is not coal, but four metal gas burners. It is important to heat the ceramic case very well with them so that it is fully involved in the cooking process. This will take 20-25 minutes. Ceramic holds heat very well inside the grill (better than metal) and acts on the ingredients with heat waves that are reflected from it. This gives the dish a special juiciness. And if you bake something for a long time at a low temperature, then you can even periodically turn off the gas burners. The temperature that the ceramic has accumulated in itself will fall very slowly.

Just one of the main strengths of ceramic grills is long recipes. Steaming a large piece of meat at a temperature of 120 ° C for 6-8 hours, roasting a whole piglet is very interesting, especially if you add cherry or mesquite chips to a special container that is in the grill. The functionality, of course, is not limited to this. In Primo, you can cook a wide variety of meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, seafood, pastries, etc., using various techniques. This is facilitated by two low power burners, which are located at the edges (indirect cooking method), and two high power burners for strong direct heat, which are located in the central part of the grill.

The size of the grill Primo Oval G 420 is the same as that of the Primo Oval XL charcoal grill - 64x47 cm. It is optimally designed for 8-10 people. In the basic configuration, steel gratings are installed in the gas version, if desired, you can buy cast-iron grates separately (sold in halves).

The oval, patented shape of the Primo grill allows efficient use of the work surface: every piece of work space is easily accessible during cooking, which is very important for laying out and turning ingredients on the grids. Plus, the oval makes it possible to zone the grill into two temperature zones and cook different dishes at the same time in direct and indirect heat. This is convenient when guests have arrived and you need to surprise them as soon as possible with a variety of dishes from the miracle grill.

For a large feast, all Primo grills, including the Oval G 420, have a functional solution that practically doubles the cooking area. These are gratings that form the second floor for cooking. You can, for example, lay the meat on the first and second levels, put it in the oven for several hours, and when the guests arrive, serve it directly to the table with heat.

The grease collector at the grill is pulled out from the front (this is much more convenient than from the back). At the base there is a locker on wheels with stoppers: on the left there are two spacious drawers, and on the right behind the door a gas cylinder with a volume of 18.2 liters is installed. On the sides - folding side tables - very important helpers in the cooking process.