The Char-Broil Performance XL has a classic look with its stainless steel design and black detail. Grill grates above the five stainless steel burners are made of a rust-resistant porcelain-coated cast iron. A temperature gauge on the lid displays the grill’s interior temperature. A cabinet beneath the grill with double doors houses the liquid propane tank and grease collection tray. This grill uses a standard, 20-pound liquid propane tank, and it cannot be converted to use natural gas. The Char-Broil Performance TRU-Infrared 500 is a 3-burner gas grill featuring Char-Broil’s TRU-Infrared cooking system.
It’s easy to assemble and equipped with electronic ignition to ensure reliable starts and a sleek upgraded design for classic good looks. The warming rack and main grates are also rust-resistant porcelain coated cast iron for better durability and easy cleanup. Blackstone Adventure The burners disperse heat across 475 square inches of primary cooking space, and there is an additional 10,000 BTU lidded side burner tucked away in the left side table. The lid folds down over this burner to provide extra workspace for food preparation.
If you’re having issues with your grill, start at the support section of the Char-Broil website. There’s a Q&A section for each product where other owners may have asked the same questions you have in mind. Start-up requires just the turn of a valve and the push of a button. From there, the twin knobs allow precise control over flame height for anything from slow roasting to high-temperature searing. There’s ample workspace and convenient enclosed storage with a 2 door cabinet.
The burgers finished within an average of 2 minutes, 49 seconds of one another. On the lid you get a thermometer meaning you can only judge temperature when the lid is closed, but this is usually the case on most grills anyway. The warranty, as mentioned before, is a decent five years for those burners. But it falls down where, on all other parts, you only get a one year warranty. Since warranty length is often a good indicator of longevity for a product, this is something to keep in mind.
The Char-Broil also features an instant-on propane tank, so your preheat time is only about minutes. Luckily, this grill from Char-Broil comes with 500 square inches of space, which is more than enough to cater for most of your grilling. When Blackstone Adventure combined its neighboring side burner and drying rack, the total cooking area of it comes to 660 square inches. This generally means that the grill comes with a dedicated rotisserie burner; the motor and spit are usually purchased separately.
As we stated earlier, you’ll need to assemble this grill when you get it out of its box. However, several users report that they needed a hand to put everything together. On the flip side, we were hoping to have more than one color to choose from. We also would have liked the unit more if it had stainless steel grates.
More convenient is a battery-operated electronic igniter, which usually ignites the gas on the first try. Some grills also have lighting holes, on the side of or beneath the grill, that can be used with a match should the igniter fail. The main cooking area of the grill rounded to the nearest 5 sq. Located on the propane tank or the grill itself, this reveals at a glance how much propane remains in the tank.