Weber gas kettle popped up on CL

[Steve Tr]

I don't see these pop up often so I thought I'd post it for anyone looking for one: A seemingly nice condition Weber Gas Kettle is on Detroit CL :

https://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/for/d/weber-collectors-heres-your/6659440478.html

I'd be curious enough to bite if it were a lower price but I have a feeling I'd be dissapointed i it if I spent 'real' money intending to actually use it. Or would I? Anyone ever used one of these things?

 

[LMichaels]

Don't waste your money. My parents had one and my friend. They're about as awful a "grill" as you can possibly imagine. Don't let the performance of a charcoal kettle fool you into thinking these work........................they don't

 

[Bruce]

I cannot see an advantage to that over a regular gasser if you want a functional grill.

 

[Jon Tofte]

That goes along with everything I have heard. For someone with money and space to spare it would still be a cool collection piece. I only have the desire, not the money or space!

 

[Steve Tr]

It's too bad to hear they don't work well, it'd be a cool mid-week time crunch cooker for a charcoal kettle fan! Is the apparent lack of flavor bars / flareups the issue? If so does that big saucer thing in the middle help at all? Or is that for some other purpose

 

[Rich Dahl]

I've heard that they were pretty bad. My Weber kettle gasser cooks great, it only can be used for indirect cooking but it makes the best whole chickens ever. Did a couple of beef roasts that came out very good also.

 

[Dustin Dorsey]

Definitely too expensive, but it's still cool in a collectible way.

 

[Greg M]

That goes along with everything I have heard. For someone with money and space to spare it would still be a cool collection piece. I only have the desire, not the money or space!

Haha Jon when I saw the title of this I immediately thought of you.

 

[Bruce]

Yah, any time I see something odd or out of the ordinary, I think of Jon as well. LOL

 

[Brian B Atlanta]

Bruce, I thought of Jon also. That maybe to ugly even for him what was Weber thinking with that mess only me its hideous.

 

[Jon Tofte]

Yah, any time I see something odd or out of the ordinary, I think of Jon as well. LOL

Wow! My reputation, I guess, is sealed!

I admit that it caught my attention, and if I had plenty of money and somewhere to put it that I would love to have it as an item in my "Weber Museum". Since I don't, it is just not functional enough and too expensive in my opinion. I would rather have a Genesis I with the wide slats!