I have a stainless steel grill that we bought from Sam's Club.
The burners and grills are considered "consumables" and are expected to be replaced as needed.
"RAM³" wrote
The stainless steel burners on my Vermont Castings are as good as new after
12 years. So are the porcelain coated cast iron grates. You need to buy a better grill if you think they are consumables.
Why wouldn't anyone want to sell stainless burners for my grill? These burners seem to fit a lot of grills, and therefore there is enough market to make stainless burners. I would pay the premium.
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unfortunately, it is wrong shape.
I worry about 'burning' chrome and nickel into the flame and thus into the food.
Carbon iron - as it would be are common elements to the body so if you get some extra carbon or iron you get richer blood or cast it off.
Mart> I have a stainless steel grill that we bought from Sam's Club.
I'm trying to figure out why anybody would go to all this trouble for a gas grill... The grill in my new outdoor kitchen is charcoal, as God intended.
You can buy various shaped and sized SS burners at any Walmart:
Eight years on a set of burners is not bad.
I have a SS grill that I bought in 2005. It gets moderate use....maybe a once or twice a week on average.
My grill has three cast brass burners....One is now split along the line of gas flame location holes and needs to be replaced.
I can get brass ones ($150 for a set) or cast iron ones for less than half. I doubt that cast iron will perform that much worse than the brass did.
Cast iron is a pretty decent material for a burner...but there are "good" cast irons and "bad" cast irons.
I'm guessing that your original iron burners were cast iron.
Replacement SS burners can vary widely in performance. Spraying water on the grill to keep the flames down will severely reduce the life of SS burners.
Per the other post.........burners are consumables.
cheers Bob
Wel, I don't know where you're at, but pretty much all the big-box home improvement places here carry replacement grill burners in stainless 12 months of the year and a good number of the regular hardware stores do in season, meaning once they drag the mowers out. A grill cover does wonders for weathering on grill innards, too. Getting one of either off the shelf to fit your existing grill is the trick. Haven't seen cast-iron burners for anything but fish cookers, though. Haven't had rust problems on my example of those, yet, just gets oil on it and in it every once in a while from a boiling pot. I did paint it with high-temp exhaust paint, though. Check Ace, True Value, HD, Lowe's, maybe Sears/K-Mart, WalMart, Menard's, whatever you've got. Somebody's got to have them.
Stan
This is true. In Heaven they use charcoal. They considered using propane, but had a hard time running the supply hose that high.
You can tell when they are grilling because the rain is grey.
And good and bad stainless steel I read in a recent thread in AHR.
Amd any other kind, right? I never understood keeping the flames down. That's the exciting part of grilling.
Because you got 8 years out of much cheaper iron ones in an inexpensive grill from Sams club. That 8 years probably exceeds the life expectation of the whole unit for a low to mid-range priced grill.
I bet that grill was $700-800, far from low priced.
8 years is a long life. You must not cook very often.
The SS burners are about as good as it gets. The cast iron will crack over time. The chrome will go faster. On the average I get about 3 years from a SS burner which is used about 48 weeks per year in all kinds of weather. The cast iron lasted about the same amount of time. I suspect the heat cool cycles in colder weather affected that sine cast burners on stove last for many years.
I had a hard time accepting that they meant to be a consumable product.
I suggest a Google search using both the model name and number and with just one of each. That looks like a proprietary design so you may not have a lot of choices.
There are grill stores n many major citys.
I had a impossible to find burner, in my moms old grill which I keep around because of sentimenta reasons, and beyond that its a very high BTU unit with lava rock which I prefer.
I took the old burner in and they found a replacement in stock.
A burner no one else had.......
Joe Pfeiffer wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily.net:
AMEN!
Charcoal is great if cooking out is an event but there are a lot of people like me who use the gas grill almost every day. I am just not willing to screw with it although I do throw a few briquettes in the grill some times, just for the smoke. I also use a lot of hickory chips.
I have a Sams SS grill too and I have had to replace a couple of the burners along with the grates and the "flavor blocks" or whatever you call those ceramic plates. The good news is they are on the Sams web site
The problem is that many of the burners are not compatible. Different orifice sizes different regulators and air feeds make it hard to make a "universal" burner. However you could easily retrofit a better cast iron burner out of a different make into yours. You may have to change the orifices to compensate for the burner holes though.
As for the grids, Most stove/furnace places that sell wood/coal fired equipment can get you cast iron grates that will outlast stainless steel easily. Stainless doesn't do well in the presence of heat unless it is expensive alloy types.
Take a look at the high end grills and you find cast iron burners and grates. Some have cast iron burners with brass jets for even better heat control.
But not a part that leads to food that tastes good.
But the right way to keep the flames down is to limit airflow. If you're under a smoke hood, the flames can't get high.
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