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Tabletop (Old Version)
Brand Smoke Hollow
Product Dimensions 19"D x 32"W x 33.5"H
Special Feature Portable
Color Tabletop (Old Version)
Fuel Type Gas

About this item

  • 205 sq. in. primary stainless steel cooking area 105 sq. in. chrome-plated warming rack
  • 10,000 BTU stainless steel "U" burner
  • Fold-able stainless steel legs; Uses 16oz. disposable cylinder
  • Stainless steel drip tray; Temperature gauge
  • Assembled Size: 19 L x 32 W x 33.5 H inches

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5.0 5.0
Portability
4.5 4.5
Easy to assemble
4.0 4.0
Quality of material
3.6 3.6

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Smoke Hollow Stainless Steel tabletop Grill

PRODUCT FEATURES

Portability

Smoke hollow large capacity

Sturdy durability

PORTABLE

Great for picnics, camping, boating, tailgating or even in your own backyard. The stainless-steel firebox is perfect for all your grilling needs.

CAPACITY

Even with one burner, the Tabletop Grill can put out 10,000 BTUs and have space for grilling several items at once.

DURABILITY

The compact design, with locking lid, folding legs and large front carry handle make this grill very portable and easy to transport or store.

Easy push button ignition

305 square inches of cooking space on a portable grill

Propane cannister not included

Easy to use push button

Total Cooking Area: 305 square inches

Uses 16oz. disposable cylinder (not included)

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This portable stainless steel table top gas grill is built for the BBQ-grillers on the go. The long-lasting stainless steel construction allows you to enjoy outdoor cooking wherever you enjoy it most - on picnics, camping, boating, tailgating or even in your own backyard. The compact design, with locking lid, folding legs and large front carry handle makes this grill very portable and easy to transport or store. The grill operates on small, disposable one-pound propane cylinders (not included), which are available nationwide as a common camping accessoty item. Grill/Smoker Features - Grease Pan,Heat Thermometer,Warming Rack

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3.4
4.8
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Easy to assemble
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4.8
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4.7
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4.6
3.6
4.3
Portability
4.5
3.6
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10000 btus
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Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
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Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel, Alloy Steel
Stainless Steel
Stainless Steel
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Customer reviews

4.1 out of 5 stars
4.1 out of 5
2,110 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the quality, performance, and portability of the barbecue grill. For example, they mention it's well-engineered, sturdy, and works well. Some appreciate the compact size and ease of portability. That said, some complain about the ignition and disagree on heat and ease.

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636 customers mention453 positive183 negative

Customers like the quality of the barbecue grill. They mention that it's well engineered, well constructed, and sturdy. They also appreciate the well thought out design and the ease of assembly. Overall, customers find it to be a pretty nice grill that serves well and reliably for ten years.

"...almost a copy of my evolved mental design of a perfect outdoor, last a lifetime, super-fast response, efficient, controllable, and I should add:..." Read more

"...Absolutely vouch for this grill it's simply perfect and very affordable from the research I've done...." Read more

"...Grill sets your meat on fire in the lowest setting. Grill goes kapoot in 1 year. Had the old model before this and was a much better design" Read more

"...Overall design: The unit is well thought out for the most part The legs fold under nicely and the lid latches down well...." Read more

269 customers mention237 positive32 negative

Customers like the portability of the barbecue grill. They say it's convenient, compact, and sturdy. Some mention that it does not take up a ton of space and would be great on a small deck, patio, or for a boat. The size is convenient and it'll not be too heavy to carry around. It folds to a nice compact dimension and can easily tuck it into the garage. It fits nicely on s small patio table.

"...and small enough perfectly stow away in a 27 gallon outside storage container..." Read more

"...In this position it is fairly comfortable to carry, to the extend you ever will...." Read more

"...-proof, the stainless looks wonderful, and the handle is large enough to make carrying comfortable. The $10.00 cost difference is money well spent...." Read more

"...The size is perfect. The quality of materials is fantastic!..." Read more

265 customers mention223 positive42 negative

Customers like the performance of the barbecue grill. They say it works well, has no flare ups, and gets the job done. Some mention that the temperature seems to work fine, while the starter not so well. Overall, most are satisfied with the performance and recommend it to others.

"...Anyway, with both of us directing and controlling, the outcome was outstanding, meat wise, and the cooking time was about half.. The placid plow..." Read more

"...easy to put together (SUPER EASY, eyes closed easy) the ignite button works perfectly, looks really nice, cleans extremely easily..." Read more

"...Cook eggs, bacon, etc each morning on this and it works very well.The negatives, if you want to call them that: the heat source is constant...." Read more

"...Works well for burgers, dogs, and even steaks, but chicken legs, thighs, or other cuts of meat might take some experimentation...." Read more

163 customers mention130 positive33 negative

Customers like the value of the barbecue grill. They say it's good for the price, worth their investment, and a good portable grill.

"...Absolutely vouch for this grill it's simply perfect and very affordable from the research I've done...." Read more

"...My take:Build quality: Quite decent for the price range...." Read more

"...This is really a quality unit, I am impressed and pleased with the price and the purchase." Read more

"...Overall great stove for the money, I just wish the temp gauge didn't go out and it would be 5 stars." Read more

90 customers mention90 positive0 negative

Customers like the appearance of the barbecue grill. They say it has a clever design, and the stainless steel looks wonderful. They also say keeping the grill clean and looking good is relatively easy. However, some customers feel the construction and material is flimsy at best. Overall, they recommend this product for its good color and U-shaped burner.

"...It looks professional and... GOOD... as a patio cooker that will do medium rare rib -eyes in half the time it used to take and do as many at once,..." Read more

"...but remains beautiful outside and doesn't leak as theres tray that you can empty out if you need to)..." Read more

"...of the grill is nice, assembly is idiot-proof, the stainless looks wonderful, and the handle is large enough to make carrying comfortable...." Read more

"...They had good color, and were properly heated through...." Read more

293 customers mention116 positive177 negative

Customers are mixed about the heat of the barbecue grill. Some mention that it provides pretty even heat all across the grill, it heats up quickly, and it's easy to control the heat. However, others say that it'll be hotter on the left side and that the temperature range isn't great.

"...I am not overly thrilled with the temperature range...." Read more

"...and reflecting SS shield, and located to provide quick, uniform heating of the cooking area...." Read more

"...The problem I had with this grill is it is HOT! On the LOWEST setting it was over 500* and burned hotdogs in about a minute...." Read more

"...a bit larger, but the single biggest advantage I have seen is the heat output...." Read more

206 customers mention134 positive72 negative

Customers are mixed about the ease of assembly of the barbecue grill. Some mention it's super easy to put together, very easy to use, and convenient. However, others say the assembly was frustrating, difficult to put the handle on, and overly complicated. They also say the handle is almost impossible to attach without dropping the screw.

"...We use it all the time on our little terrace and its super easy to put together (SUPER EASY, eyes closed easy) the ignite button works perfectly,..." Read more

"...To start, as others have said, assembly of the grill can be a challenge, as the the screws are incredibly small...." Read more

"...Construction of the grill is nice, assembly is idiot-proof, the stainless looks wonderful, and the handle is large enough to make carrying..." Read more

"...a little hot on low (around 600 degrees Fahrenheit), but can be controlled fairly easily with an occasional hood lift...." Read more

112 customers mention24 positive88 negative

Customers are dissatisfied with the ignition of the barbecue grill. They mention that the spark sparked but didn't light, the flame wouldn't stay lit, and the igniting control would not work at all. The gas burners are not placed properly inside the grill body. The piezo igniter failed and the grill heating element never worked from the beginning.

"...After about 12-15 meals that I've done to date, the piezo igniter failed, which, in my experience, is what piezo igniters do, which brings me to......." Read more

"...Chicken was a complete disaster, charred on the outside, raw inside, we finished cooking that on the campfire...." Read more

"...the igniter would click and there'd be the spark, but no ignition of the gas. I had to use a portable lighter...." Read more

"...The grill has lighted on the first attempt each time I have used it...." Read more

OUTDOOR COOKING  revisited... efficient, fast and controllable
5 Stars
OUTDOOR COOKING revisited... efficient, fast and controllable
I bought this unit to replace a well-used aged cast aluminum cooker mounted on a nice aluminum cart with wheels and a convenient shelf for the tank and a small table to hold plates, tools and a glass including ice. The cooking innards finally collapsed into a pile of corrosion and rust and so I went shopping at my usual place and saw a cooker that was almost a copy of my evolved mental design of a perfect outdoor, last a lifetime, super-fast response, efficient, controllable, and I should add: handsome, Cooker! The well written sales info was almost a copy of my checklist of desirable features and so I did my usual 1 click thing and a few days later a box arrived concurrent with a visit from my son who sees much better than I and doesn't shake at all.Using my tools, the ones that haven't gravitated to his house, and a little direction, he is teachable. The cast aluminum cooker was removed from the surviving cart and deposited in the recycle bin. After a little clean-up and some stove black spray paint the cart looked youthful and 'smart'!The bits and pieces of the new cooker that they allow you to add were soon assembled, he works faster than I direct, and we both marveled at the workmanship, subtle design features like the U tube 10K burner protected by a deflecting and reflecting SS shield, and located to provide quick, uniform heating of the cooking area. All of those reflecting and directing SS surfaces also provide infra- red energy to increase cooking efficiency.We decided that it was close enough to dinner time to do a 'test flight'! The rib eyes were anxious and dressed and the 'Bakers smelled right and so we launched: WOW! One word: QUICK! ... The olive oil on the new grill was smoking in no time and the thermo, actually readable at my age...thank you...was at 400 deg and moving fast....throttle to low idle and we hustled up the meat and talked about changing our cooking ways.. The low thermal mass of this unit and the big burner, along with all the reflecting inner surfaces, will require some cooking adjustment. We quickly learned that with the lid open, it's a patio heater: with lid closed, a super efficient cooker which you can actually control with the 'throttle’ (more later on the regulator). Anyway, with both of us directing and controlling, the outcome was outstanding, meat wise, and the cooking time was about half.. The placid plow horse has become a KY contender.The functional old/new cart now has a shining SS cooker bolted in place of the aluminum heat sink that took forever to heat and used gas like a school bus (note the cost of propane lately?) and was painted black to increase emissivity and so on. The attachment required drilling 4 new holes and some junk hardware to secure the new to the old with a quick release, if desired.It looks professional and... GOOD... as a patio cooker that will do medium rare rib -eyes in half the time it used to take and do as many at once, as the old unit, because the effective cooking area is about the same! Nearly uniform temp to within an inch of the housing. A little thermal redesign of the grill mounting could improve that. That was last September and a lot of cooking and careless overcooking has occurred since.A month or so ago the nice big thermo went TU (dead, defunct, deceased to the illiterate) and I called the seller phone # from the well written manual that tells how to assemble and use the cooker and has lots of warnings about touching hot surfaces and blowing up your patio. (For fun, the measured warning stuff is about 8% of the linear inch of printing) and talked to a very nice lady in Customer Service who clicked a few keys and identified me as a willing customer and said she would find me a new thermo and mail it to me. This was a new experience for me in dealing with CS! A few days later I got a package with a new thermo, but.... the wrong one, very small. Another phone call to the same nice lady and she apologized and said the larger unit was in short supply and she would find me one somewhere and send it on. (The smaller unit would have worked just fine but I couldn't read it.)The Larger unit came carefully wrapped in a nice box and it is now installed and I don’t have to estimate the temperature now. I made one more call to that number but she was absent and I told her supervisor (?) how much I appreciated the... Customer Service I had received.How would I improve this device:Regulator: These controls always seem backwards to me and the temp stability and quick response of the cooker, with the lid closed, needs more control resolution which you could get by adding a larger diameter back plate to the regulator behind the knob and replace the knob markings with a simple arrowhead. I did this with my unit, a crude mockup that works, and the knob still turns CCW to increase the temperature. The marked lock/unlock area and a graduated width scale or reference numbers on the back plate, like my kitchen stove and oven, simplifies control. There is about 70 deg of Off/Lock on the regulator and almost 180 deg of Temperature Adjustment available. The reference numbers or other markings would improve control and relate temperature gage to favorable cooking conditions for various items like steaks, ‘dogs and other favorites.Grill size: Give me the 2 inches used for the clicker box and another inch in width for increased grill area and it's no longer just a ‘portable’ cooker. It can then do as many ‘T Bones’ as the conventional sized units and do them much quicker and with less lid lifting and if Fat Flares bother you, buy better meat and trim well and Steak burger is better for you too! This cooker is not bothered and cleaning is a minute or so of full throttle!The clicker could be moved, or eliminated, (mine usually last about a season) and combined with the revised gas control panel that would also accommodate a bottle for portability and..………....I got carried away... I really like this unit!
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Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2018
Color: Tabletop (Old Version)Verified Purchase
I bought this unit to replace a well-used aged cast aluminum cooker mounted on a nice aluminum cart with wheels and a convenient shelf for the tank and a small table to hold plates, tools and a glass including ice. The cooking innards finally collapsed into a pile of corrosion and rust and so I went shopping at my usual place and saw a cooker that was almost a copy of my evolved mental design of a perfect outdoor, last a lifetime, super-fast response, efficient, controllable, and I should add: handsome, Cooker! The well written sales info was almost a copy of my checklist of desirable features and so I did my usual 1 click thing and a few days later a box arrived concurrent with a visit from my son who sees much better than I and doesn't shake at all.
Using my tools, the ones that haven't gravitated to his house, and a little direction, he is teachable. The cast aluminum cooker was removed from the surviving cart and deposited in the recycle bin. After a little clean-up and some stove black spray paint the cart looked youthful and 'smart'!
The bits and pieces of the new cooker that they allow you to add were soon assembled, he works faster than I direct, and we both marveled at the workmanship, subtle design features like the U tube 10K burner protected by a deflecting and reflecting SS shield, and located to provide quick, uniform heating of the cooking area. All of those reflecting and directing SS surfaces also provide infra- red energy to increase cooking efficiency.
We decided that it was close enough to dinner time to do a 'test flight'! The rib eyes were anxious and dressed and the 'Bakers smelled right and so we launched: WOW! One word: QUICK! ... The olive oil on the new grill was smoking in no time and the thermo, actually readable at my age...thank you...was at 400 deg and moving fast....throttle to low idle and we hustled up the meat and talked about changing our cooking ways.. The low thermal mass of this unit and the big burner, along with all the reflecting inner surfaces, will require some cooking adjustment. We quickly learned that with the lid open, it's a patio heater: with lid closed, a super efficient cooker which you can actually control with the 'throttle’ (more later on the regulator). Anyway, with both of us directing and controlling, the outcome was outstanding, meat wise, and the cooking time was about half.. The placid plow horse has become a KY contender.
The functional old/new cart now has a shining SS cooker bolted in place of the aluminum heat sink that took forever to heat and used gas like a school bus (note the cost of propane lately?) and was painted black to increase emissivity and so on. The attachment required drilling 4 new holes and some junk hardware to secure the new to the old with a quick release, if desired.
It looks professional and... GOOD... as a patio cooker that will do medium rare rib -eyes in half the time it used to take and do as many at once, as the old unit, because the effective cooking area is about the same! Nearly uniform temp to within an inch of the housing. A little thermal redesign of the grill mounting could improve that. That was last September and a lot of cooking and careless overcooking has occurred since.
A month or so ago the nice big thermo went TU (dead, defunct, deceased to the illiterate) and I called the seller phone # from the well written manual that tells how to assemble and use the cooker and has lots of warnings about touching hot surfaces and blowing up your patio. (For fun, the measured warning stuff is about 8% of the linear inch of printing) and talked to a very nice lady in Customer Service who clicked a few keys and identified me as a willing customer and said she would find me a new thermo and mail it to me. This was a new experience for me in dealing with CS! A few days later I got a package with a new thermo, but.... the wrong one, very small. Another phone call to the same nice lady and she apologized and said the larger unit was in short supply and she would find me one somewhere and send it on. (The smaller unit would have worked just fine but I couldn't read it.)
The Larger unit came carefully wrapped in a nice box and it is now installed and I don’t have to estimate the temperature now. I made one more call to that number but she was absent and I told her supervisor (?) how much I appreciated the... Customer Service I had received.
How would I improve this device:
Regulator: These controls always seem backwards to me and the temp stability and quick response of the cooker, with the lid closed, needs more control resolution which you could get by adding a larger diameter back plate to the regulator behind the knob and replace the knob markings with a simple arrowhead. I did this with my unit, a crude mockup that works, and the knob still turns CCW to increase the temperature. The marked lock/unlock area and a graduated width scale or reference numbers on the back plate, like my kitchen stove and oven, simplifies control. There is about 70 deg of Off/Lock on the regulator and almost 180 deg of Temperature Adjustment available. The reference numbers or other markings would improve control and relate temperature gage to favorable cooking conditions for various items like steaks, ‘dogs and other favorites.
Grill size: Give me the 2 inches used for the clicker box and another inch in width for increased grill area and it's no longer just a ‘portable’ cooker. It can then do as many ‘T Bones’ as the conventional sized units and do them much quicker and with less lid lifting and if Fat Flares bother you, buy better meat and trim well and Steak burger is better for you too! This cooker is not bothered and cleaning is a minute or so of full throttle!
The clicker could be moved, or eliminated, (mine usually last about a season) and combined with the revised gas control panel that would also accommodate a bottle for portability and..……….

...I got carried away... I really like this unit!
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5.0 out of 5 stars OUTDOOR COOKING revisited... efficient, fast and controllable
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2018
I bought this unit to replace a well-used aged cast aluminum cooker mounted on a nice aluminum cart with wheels and a convenient shelf for the tank and a small table to hold plates, tools and a glass including ice. The cooking innards finally collapsed into a pile of corrosion and rust and so I went shopping at my usual place and saw a cooker that was almost a copy of my evolved mental design of a perfect outdoor, last a lifetime, super-fast response, efficient, controllable, and I should add: handsome, Cooker! The well written sales info was almost a copy of my checklist of desirable features and so I did my usual 1 click thing and a few days later a box arrived concurrent with a visit from my son who sees much better than I and doesn't shake at all.
Using my tools, the ones that haven't gravitated to his house, and a little direction, he is teachable. The cast aluminum cooker was removed from the surviving cart and deposited in the recycle bin. After a little clean-up and some stove black spray paint the cart looked youthful and 'smart'!
The bits and pieces of the new cooker that they allow you to add were soon assembled, he works faster than I direct, and we both marveled at the workmanship, subtle design features like the U tube 10K burner protected by a deflecting and reflecting SS shield, and located to provide quick, uniform heating of the cooking area. All of those reflecting and directing SS surfaces also provide infra- red energy to increase cooking efficiency.
We decided that it was close enough to dinner time to do a 'test flight'! The rib eyes were anxious and dressed and the 'Bakers smelled right and so we launched: WOW! One word: QUICK! ... The olive oil on the new grill was smoking in no time and the thermo, actually readable at my age...thank you...was at 400 deg and moving fast....throttle to low idle and we hustled up the meat and talked about changing our cooking ways.. The low thermal mass of this unit and the big burner, along with all the reflecting inner surfaces, will require some cooking adjustment. We quickly learned that with the lid open, it's a patio heater: with lid closed, a super efficient cooker which you can actually control with the 'throttle’ (more later on the regulator). Anyway, with both of us directing and controlling, the outcome was outstanding, meat wise, and the cooking time was about half.. The placid plow horse has become a KY contender.
The functional old/new cart now has a shining SS cooker bolted in place of the aluminum heat sink that took forever to heat and used gas like a school bus (note the cost of propane lately?) and was painted black to increase emissivity and so on. The attachment required drilling 4 new holes and some junk hardware to secure the new to the old with a quick release, if desired.
It looks professional and... GOOD... as a patio cooker that will do medium rare rib -eyes in half the time it used to take and do as many at once, as the old unit, because the effective cooking area is about the same! Nearly uniform temp to within an inch of the housing. A little thermal redesign of the grill mounting could improve that. That was last September and a lot of cooking and careless overcooking has occurred since.
A month or so ago the nice big thermo went TU (dead, defunct, deceased to the illiterate) and I called the seller phone # from the well written manual that tells how to assemble and use the cooker and has lots of warnings about touching hot surfaces and blowing up your patio. (For fun, the measured warning stuff is about 8% of the linear inch of printing) and talked to a very nice lady in Customer Service who clicked a few keys and identified me as a willing customer and said she would find me a new thermo and mail it to me. This was a new experience for me in dealing with CS! A few days later I got a package with a new thermo, but.... the wrong one, very small. Another phone call to the same nice lady and she apologized and said the larger unit was in short supply and she would find me one somewhere and send it on. (The smaller unit would have worked just fine but I couldn't read it.)
The Larger unit came carefully wrapped in a nice box and it is now installed and I don’t have to estimate the temperature now. I made one more call to that number but she was absent and I told her supervisor (?) how much I appreciated the... Customer Service I had received.
How would I improve this device:
Regulator: These controls always seem backwards to me and the temp stability and quick response of the cooker, with the lid closed, needs more control resolution which you could get by adding a larger diameter back plate to the regulator behind the knob and replace the knob markings with a simple arrowhead. I did this with my unit, a crude mockup that works, and the knob still turns CCW to increase the temperature. The marked lock/unlock area and a graduated width scale or reference numbers on the back plate, like my kitchen stove and oven, simplifies control. There is about 70 deg of Off/Lock on the regulator and almost 180 deg of Temperature Adjustment available. The reference numbers or other markings would improve control and relate temperature gage to favorable cooking conditions for various items like steaks, ‘dogs and other favorites.
Grill size: Give me the 2 inches used for the clicker box and another inch in width for increased grill area and it's no longer just a ‘portable’ cooker. It can then do as many ‘T Bones’ as the conventional sized units and do them much quicker and with less lid lifting and if Fat Flares bother you, buy better meat and trim well and Steak burger is better for you too! This cooker is not bothered and cleaning is a minute or so of full throttle!
The clicker could be moved, or eliminated, (mine usually last about a season) and combined with the revised gas control panel that would also accommodate a bottle for portability and..……….

...I got carried away... I really like this unit!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2018
Color: Tabletop (Old Version)Verified Purchase
This thing ROCKS!!! We use it all the time on our little terrace and its super easy to put together (SUPER EASY, eyes closed easy) the ignite button works perfectly, looks really nice, cleans extremely easily (the top grate does - I mean its a grill so its going to get nasty inside with drippings ect. but remains beautiful outside and doesn't leak as theres tray that you can empty out if you need to) and small enough perfectly stow away in a 27 gallon outside storage container (fits nearly perfectly in there with the grill utensils and we place in on top when in use) when not in use. We were sick of the electric grill and craving the charbroiled taste this thing has given us exactly that! We usually cook for two and there's plenty of area to do so. We've even cooked for four and it done the trick! Absolutely vouch for this grill it's simply perfect and very affordable from the research I've done. Also, we just use the 16oz propane tank with it because we don't have the room for a big tank (and its not exactly permitted where we live) but if you decide to just do the 16oz tanks FYI they're only $4.95 at Target. I got ripped off on Amazon and bought 2 for $20 before stumbling across them in Target and we get about 3 cooks maybe 4 with the 16oz disposable tank.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2017
Color: Tabletop (Old Version)Verified Purchase
This will be one of those reviews where I wish I could do a half star. If I could, I would probably put this unit at the 3.5 range in the early going. I bought this about 6 months ago. After a couple "test meals" I have used it on one half-week camping trip and a few more times when too lazy to light the coals on my big grill. When feasible I will always go to charcoal for grilling but I have occasion to try to travel light for camping/fishing trips and a unit like this comes in pretty handy for the portability and convenience, but I digress! My take:

Build quality: Quite decent for the price range. I compared it side to side with a unit my father-in-law paid triple the cost for. The 300 dollar unit had nicer stainless steel and was somewhat beefier but I don't see it lasting NEAR 3 times as long as this unit will.

Overall design: The unit is well thought out for the most part The legs fold under nicely and the lid latches down well. In this position it is fairly comfortable to carry, to the extend you ever will. If I have a gripe here it is that the drip pan doesn't latch closed and it can slid around on you when carrying the unit.

Functionality: I have had some successes and some failures with the unit. I am not overly thrilled with the temperature range. All the way from high to low seems to be about 100 degrees of range, which will naturally be affected by ambient temp. I attempted to do a tri-tip roast on it on the Oregon Coast in rainy weather and I basically ruined a good piece of meat because it got away from me too quickly. However, I've had great success with burgers, pork chops, and chicken breasts, which is more like what you SHOULD be doing on a unit like this anyway. After about 12-15 meals that I've done to date, the piezo igniter failed, which, in my experience, is what piezo igniters do, which brings me to....

Customer service: I called the company on Monday about the failed igniter. A lady who's FIRST language is English answered the telephone in a voice I could understand and without me having to press any additional buttons and listen to any MUZAK. It took me about 5 minutes to explain my problem, give her the purchase date, and have a new igniter on the way. Today is Thursday and I just finished installing the new igniter. Therefore, I put customer service at a FAT A+, hence the half star over rather than under! :)
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