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Brand: Weber
Category: Lawn & Patio

List Price: ~~$2,049.00~~
Buy New: $1,715.98
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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 3961

Shipping Weight (lbs): 260
Dimensions (in): 37.8 x 29 x 52.8

MPN: 2740001
Model: 2740001
UPC: 077924075308
EAN: 0077924075308
ASIN: B000WEPF4K

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Features:

•	4-burner gas grill; 48,000 Btu's; 580 inches total cooking area
•	468-square-inch primary cooking area; 112-square-inch warming rack
•	4 stainless steel burners with individual ignition; 12,000-Btu flush-mount side burner
•	10,600-Btu dedicated sear burner; 10,600-Btu infrared rotisserie burner
•	2 heavy-duty front locking casters and 2 heavy-duty back swivel casters

Similar Items:

•	Weber 7554 Premium Cover
•	Weber Style 6445 Professional-Grade 3-Piece Stainless-Steel Tool Set
•	Weber 9988 Premium Cover
•	Weber 6433 Saucing System
•	Weber 6401 Barbecue Mitt, Black

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Best Grill !!!! September 19, 2008
This is an awesome grill. Very high quality. Looks great.
Easy to unpack and hook up. The burners are really hot.
Great sear marks, with or without the sear burner on.
I would buy this grill again and would recommend it to a friend.

5 out of 5 stars

Higher End Grill, at a Mid-Range Price August 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

I started off looking at the TEC Infrared grills at around the $4k price range, after a while, I found I could get a similar grill from Fire Magic, for less money, so was about to go that route. I sent an e-mail to the people at Shopper's Choice, and asked some questions about Infrared grills in general. What I found out was very interesting, and kept me from buying the wrong grill.

It turns out, almost all infrared grills are only good for one thing, cooking steaks, and usually rare to medium rare in taste. I do not like my meat still mooing, so that was out of the question. About the only infrared grill that would allow you to cook other foods, and use other doneness levels, would be the TEC. This is because the TEC version can get down to around 300 degrees, where most other infrared grills have a low temp of only about 500-600 degrees. So, if you only like cooking steaks, then an infrared grill is for you. Otherwise, one of the Fire Magic grills would be a good choice, as you can get both infrared and conventional gas burners, but there is still one drawback to that, over this Weber model. That is, that if you need conventional burners for whatever you are cooking, the grill space over the infrared burner is wasted, and cannot be used for anything else.

After much looking around, and reading reviews of Weber grills (including the one already here on this grill), I decided I wanted one of the Summit grills. I decided on the 470 model, because 4 main burners was more than enough for what I wanted to do, and our family isn't huge, so the added space probably wouldn't get used. The reason I picked the higher end 4 burner model, was because I wanted the sear station, to get the effect of the infrared burner, without having to devote an entire burner to it. In my opinion, the lighted knobs are kind of a waste, however, I haven't needed to use them. The grill out light is kind of cool, and I've actually used it a few times now with good results.

I ordered this grill online (not through Amazon), and it arrived on a pallet, within a heavy cardboard box. Almost all of the main unit was already assembled, leaving the wings, and a few other things to install. I think it took me less than an hour to assemble the entire unit, once I got it off the pallet. This grill is heavy, around 300-350lbs, so it is a lot easier if you have a couple people to get it out of the packaging.

I was really impressed with the quality of the parts. All of the burners, flame tamers, and grates are made out of stainless steel, so they should last the life of the grill (which I expect to be 20 years or more). One of the more cool features of this grill, is the smoker box. This is something that did not even come with the higher-end grills, until you stepped up to the $6k or more grills. The smoker box is all stainless steel, and has its own burner on the very right side of the grill. It takes up little grilling space, which is nice. I've used it several times, and it seems to work pretty well. Controlling the amount of smoke is as easy as turning a knob.

On to the cooking. This grill is fantastic at cooking. You get those perfect sear marks on everything you cook, and the flavor is outstanding. One thing I would point out here, is if you think you really know how to grill, get the cook book by Jamie Purviance, called Weber's Real Grilling (bought here on Amazon for less than $17, 75 reviews at 5 stars), and you will really learn how to grill. It is amazing some of the things I used to do to try and make things taste better, only to learn it was the wrong thing to do. A lot of people I have seen grilling, do it the WRONG way, so I'd highly recommend this book, not only does it teach you the proper technique, it has some fantastic recipes in it (not just meat, either--my wife and I are fans of the Barbecue Chicken Pizzas--yes, on the grill pizza, and the Apple Cake).

The grill is fantastic at everything so far. I have not tried the rotisserie yet, but everything else works really well. The burner lighting system is great, basically like using a flame thrower to light the burner, so you don't have to sit there and keep sparking the igniter all the time (oh, and the igniter is nice, it's built-in to the knob, you don't push another button or anything, just turn the knob to light, and hold it for a second or two, and you're good to go. This grill is capable of getting very HOT. The first time I used it to make a couple steaks, with the sear burner on, I burned all the hair off of my right hand, just opening the grill cover! I did the same thing a few weeks later, until I learned my lesson--get longer grilling tools! The knobs regulate well, and the burners seem to cook evenly.

Overall, I'm really impressed with this grill. I would buy it again, without a second thought. It sure beats the Patio Caddy I had, up until I got this one. This grill does seem to go through the gas a little faster, but then again, it has more than one burner... I ordered the Weber grill cover that goes with this grill last week, because I noticed that even under a covered porch, the grill does get pretty dirty.

5 out of 5 stars

Great Grill May 5, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful

I recently purchased this grill and had a huge cookout last weekend (18 people in all). I loved that it maintained the heat well enough for me to plan ahead and properly slow-cook and smoke the ribs at 225 and chicken at 350 and sirloin at 375 and sear the ribs when done. I would have never even considered trying that with my old $200 CharBroil grill (everything had a tendency to be burnt on the outside as the open flames in one big U were very hard to control).

With the Weber, as long as you properly pre-heat to get the flavorizer bars hot enough before grilling so that the drippings vaporize on contact (adding flavor to your meat) and the thick grill hot enough to singe the meat, it becomes a simple matter to cook your food to perfection. Everyone raved at how moist and tender the ribs and chicken where.

I was tempted to get the $999 Kirkland grill at Costco, however the searer took up too much precious grilling space and I had trouble seeing how the infrared gizmo was going to stay clean. Weber just adds a high-heat burner in the middle and thus it consumes no grill space. I have already made burgers dozens of times without once over-cooking them.

There are two covers available and both leak thru the vents. I chose the 9988 and put black duct tape over the vent in the back. Putting duct tape over the 7554's side vents would have looked tacky. The picture on the box for the 7554 does NOT show the vents.

Cleaning was much easier than my last grill... Just removed the 2 grates and the 10 flavorizer bars and the slide out drip tray and scrubbed them down in our concrete basement sink with a stainless steel scrubber and the grates are like new again (the flavorizer bars are a bit discolored due to the heat, but that is fine).

I wish the burners we more easily removed so I can more easily clean the area below the burners that direct the drippings into the removable drip pan.

It was a lot more expensive than I would have liked, but I could not find an alternative that I felt comfortable buying. I was so tired of making due with a cheap grill that I figure that on a per-use basis (since I will likely use it a lot more) weighted for properly cooked meat, that this grill, over the long term, will be cheaper than several cheaper grills being replaced every 5 years.

I just wish my back-yard was bigger so a bigger grill would fit as I had trouble finding room for all that meat.

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