Lazy Old Weber Guy Here - Thinking of the Searwood: What's all the fuss over Grill Marks?

[DanHoo]

I think this thread like many others highlights we have a wide spectrum of cooking styles and how we use our cooking tools AND we are lucky enough to have many choices to support this hobby; or is it a habit / addiction ?

 

[LMichaels]

I think this thread like many others highlights we have a wide spectrum of cooking styles and how we use our cooking tools AND we are lucky enough to have many choices to support this hobby; or is it a habit / addiction ?

I'm addicted. I mainline Q intravenously

 

[Robby-Ribeye]

OK, while the Ninja FlexFlame can actually do somewhat decent low and slow smoking, my recommendation of it was more that you have an easy way to do high heat (with wood smoke, if you choose) and still also do basic smoking. If your focus is still more on smoking, then maybe the Searwood is still the better choice.

Everything is a trade-off. I would personally still want a basic gas grill - think inexpensive older classic Genesis - to augment the Searwood.

We will wait to see what Larry finds out. He has been an eager user and proponent of the Ninja Woodfire up to now. I am very interested to see what he comes up with. I don't know at all but wonder about the smoke clogging air flow over time.

Full transparency. The grilling/smoking is done on our driveway which we keep very neat. The Weber kettle stays out. So, The WSM is put away after every smoke. My lovely wife of has gone thru many grill configurations over our 45 years together. And now she doesn't want them both out So, I end up grilling all the time and smoking once every couple months. Now she says, see you need them both out because "You hardly ever smoke." HA! I'm clearly that guy that needs one grill to do both. My fear is that the SW is not going to do as good as my trusty kettle .I know this sounds trite and my guess is that

100% agree.

 

[timothy]

I think this thread like many others highlights we have a wide spectrum of cooking styles and how we use our cooking tools AND we are lucky enough to have many choices to support this hobby; or is it a habit / addiction ?

This is like a support group
Like my sig says.

 

[DanHoo]

Full transparency. I feel like I can open up with you guys. The grilling/smoking is done on our driveway which we keep very neat. The Weber kettle stays out. So, The WSM is put away after every smoke. My lovely wife has gone thru many grill dramas and configurations over our 45 years together. Like the used Brinkman that torched the turkey and almost burned our garage down in ’82. And now she doesn't want them both out So, I end up grilling all the time and smoking once every couple months. Now she says, see you don’t need them both out because "You hardly ever smoke." HA! I'm clearly that guy that needs one grill to do both. My fear is that the SW is not going to grill as good as my trusty kettle. I know this sounds so trite. I grew up with charcoal. My dad taught me and my brothers to grill on his original PK. I think it’s gonna end up lonely in the garage like a Pixar character. Thanks for listening.

If I could only own one grill , it would be a WSK.

Here are some threads tagged with wsk that might be interesting to read. https://tvwbb.com/tags/wsk/

fwiw, This was my collection three years ago. I replaced the pit boss pellet smoker and the WSM 22 with the WSK.




I do most of my cooking on the BGE, the WSK then the Genesis E330.

I rarely use the Genesis 1000 (looks like a Silver B ) or the performer.

 

[Steve Garretson]

My patio resembles this to a degree…. I see you’re rocking the older style BGE (very cool!) also. We primarily use that for poultry, salmon, and pizza! We do really, really like our dead reliable Recteq 700 pellet smoker also for beef and pork long and slow (our stimulus purchase). We have a Recteq 870 Wyldside Argentinian style grill (we bought on closeout) which is really fun to cook on if you like entertaining/ cooking over fire.

 

[Steve Garretson]

Just some stuff,
but there’s a recteq Bullseye black edition that’s really popular, and there’s even a forum that does a bottom switch for a Weber 22 if it ever wears out due to high heat, etc….

So it will definitely serve all of those purposes.
Customer service is better than any grill I have, and Weber and Green Egg are outstanding,

Just a thought.