Benefits of Infrared Grills
Benefits of Infrared Grills
Quick Preheat
An infrared grill can preheat on high in as little as 3-5 minutes, allowing you to start grilling in no time!
Even Heat
Infrared grills provide even heat across the grilling surface, reducing hot and cold spots often found on other grills.
Faster Cooking
Sometimes we don't have time to grill after a long day at work. A faster cook time allows you to grill more often.
Food Tastes Better
Infrared grilling means your food will retain up to 35% more of its natural juices, producing tender and juicy results.
Steakhouse Quality Searing
Infrared grills reach incredibly high searing temperatures that produce mouthwatering, restaurant quality steaks.
Minimal Flare-ups
Infrared grills drastically reduce or even eliminate flare ups from grease and food particles catching fire.
Customizable
Choose from different styles, configurations, burners, and a wide variety of accessories that makes gas grills easy to personalize.
Easy To Clean
After cooking, setting an infrared grill to high will turn any food particles left behind into ash for easy cleaning.
Types of Infrared Burner Systems
There are several infrared brands out there, but they don't all utilize the same infrared cooking system. This is important to understand to ensure you are getting the perfect infrared grill to fit your cooking needs. Furthermore, it's important to consider the quality of the infrared grill you are buying. Some infrared grills are built with more economical, lower quality components, which might cause you to have to constantly replace parts, or the whole grill, much quicker than you might think. We've had several customers share their stories with us about this very fact. Contrast that with the commercial quality construction of the higher end brands, where you may pay more up front but enjoy better performance and longevity in the long run.
Ceramic Infrared Burner System (Most Common)
Ceramic infrared burner systems feature a stainless steel burner topped with a ceramic surface, with the cooking grid sitting a few inches above the burner surface. This ceramic surface produces many tiny flames that get extremely hot, quickly and and evenly. On the cooking surface, you can expect a temperature range of roughly 600-1000 degrees. The direct flame access of the food drippings to these burners may cause some quick flare ups, which some folks prefer for the flame-kiss charring. This burner system is found on brands like Solaire, and is great for searing meats hot and fast, but will not reach lower temperatures.
TEC's Radiant Glass Panel System
TEC, the founder of infrared grills, reinvented the infrared burner system again when they introduced their radiant glass panel infrared system. This system features the cooking grid sitting directly atop a radiant glass panel, over a durable stainless steel burner. This system provides incredibly even heat distribution and virtually no flare ups. The temperature range of the TEC Patio FR offers an amazing 200-900 degree range, and can reach even lower temperatures using its smoker/roaster accessory. The TEC G-Sport FR also offers an incredible cooking surface temperature range of 250-850 degrees. While these grills don't quite reach the highest temperatures of a ceramic infrared burners, they do produce plenty enough high heat to reach steakhouse quality searing, while also offering the capability to cook at low temperatures.
Heat Emitter System
This infrared system is found on brands like Saber, and features a stainless steel tube burner, with a metal heat emitter panel sitting over the burner and the cooking grid sitting directly atop the emitter panel. This system provides good even heat distribution and virtually no flare ups with a temperature range of 300-650 degrees. For example: instead of a pricier radiant glass panel, Saber’s proprietary infrared heat emitter system uses a "peaks and valleys" design of open grates; this funnels away airflow while keeping those tender meats moist and juicy. However, the pipe burners on these systems produce less heat than the other infrared systems, which will not reach the maximum searing temperatures of higher-end infrared grills.
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Hybrid Infrared Gas Grills: Get the Best of Both Worlds
In the past few years many advances have been made in the infrared gas grill industry. One of the most interesting has been the creation of hybrid infrared gas grills. hese gas grills offer a combination of traditional convection burners and an infrared burner zone, which allows you to grill all of your favorite foods that require lower temperatures over the convection burners while searing steaks over intense infrared heat from your sear zone. This also allows for the quick transition of your food after searing to a lower temperature to continue grilling. Shop the three most common types of hybrid gas grill configurations below.
Sear Station Side Burner
Some grills include an infrared sear station mounted on the side shelf, giving you the searing capability of an infrared burner without taking up any grilling space inside your grill. For those looking for this functionality in their outdoor kitchen, be sure to check out out our built-in infrared searing stations.
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