I thought maybe it would be nice to have a thread of mishmash stuff related in some way to Weber gas grills, but not worthy of a dedicated thread. Feel free to post things that you think are interesting and might be of interest to others on the forum.
Here's one, has to do with the 'big weber' at the kids' mom's house, which we got for her b/day 8/19 and resulted in me getting the q1200. The other day, she had grilled some chicken, we were having a glass of wine on the front porch watching the dogs and she said "i've got to scrape the grill, I've had it on high for ten..." I said "stay with the dogs, I'll scrape it."
Went out on the back patio, the grill was smoking like crazy. I thought she probably left a chicken breast on it, opened it, and there was just flames from the basement of hell. Dropped lid, turned of gas, waited a respectable interval.
Turns out it was the drip pan (which came with the aluminum Weber OEM insert) that was flaming up!
As other posts have noted, the aluminum inserts leak or fatigue or whatever, and this one had. It was half full of gunk, and underneath the insert the drip pan still had a lot of really low-viscosity oil. So it was kind of a stereo can! I showed her how to pull the pan and put in a new insert, and she said: "well, I kind of count on you to do that kind of thing." I said I'd bear that in mind for the future.
A good divorce is better than a bad marriage and the kids' mom and I have a good divorce!