gas grill

[Koffer]

about 5 years ago I bought a SS gas grill with 4 burners and a side burner . It was OK but never seemed to get really hot enough (275 deg on the hood gauge on a good day after running awhile) for my liking but I used it and figured thats the way it would be .
fast forward to last weekend when my wife asked to cook some chicken at 10PM for her so she could take it to work for lunch during the week . I start up the grill go in the house and get the goods to cook . when I come back out I see light coming from the bottle area . Well the "light' turns out to be nice yellow flame coming from the cap on the regulator

So like any good I just blow it out and finish cooking up the chicken .

Today I went to Lowes and bought a new regulator and hose . Put it on and fired it up.
Holy s*** ,it shot up to 450 way under 10 mins burned off all the s*** thats been dripping into it for 5 years and then it shot past 600 deg with the good old grease fire going and thats when I turned off the burners and let it do its thing

If I known it was a bad regulator for all this time I would have changed it years ago.

It was the best 10 mins and $20 I spent in a long time

 

[john_eckels]

I would make sure you didn't get a high pressure regulator, which could be dangerous. It sounds like it is heating up a bit quicker than I would expect.

 

[-Spike-]

I also have a disappointingly slow gas (propane) grill. What's the part number for the 'high pressure regulator'?

 

[e9999]

both of my old Webers will get to above 550F in around 5 mins.
My Costco Sureheat (what a crappy company Sure heat is to deal with) struggles to get to 500F but then it has a huge open area in the back that I may partially cover someday.

I think a lot of grilling recipe books call high heat over 500

 

[-Spike-]

Mine is a BBG Galore gargantuan model with a total of 9 burners- 6 under the grill, a rotisserie burner and two cooktop burners. It has ceramic plates. It does a decent steak or chicken, but the hood temp is rarely over 250*, and it takes quite a while to get there. I'm gonna convert it to NG eventually so I haven't been motivated to mess with it, although the conversion may be years out. Something as easy as changing out the regulator appeals to me.

 

[Koffer]

I would make sure you didn't get a high pressure regulator, which could be dangerous. It sounds like it is heating up a bit quicker than I would expect.

No Its a regular low pressure unit ,(11 inches of water ) I have a dual pressure unit for my trailer project low for the inside stuff and the outside cook stove is a high pressure unit

The old unit always sounded like the tank valve wasn't turned on enough even when it was all the way open plus the flame was blue but was lazy like it was set on low.

Im just glad I can sear things now , not just cook them by drying the meat out which always made for a nice piece of meat to come out like shoe leather