If so, what happened? What did it look like? Did it actually go up in flames?
The cover? Like the big thing the drapes over it to keep the weather out while you’re not using it? How would you start it like that?
Once.
My eyebrows grew back a month later.
I always leave the grill cover on or any slight breeze will prevent ignition, this may be peculiar to my grill only.
sure, I’ve done it. Nice flames shooting out from the openings, little “whoooomp!” sound, scent of burnt hair. All good.
I’m pretty sure they mean starting a gas grill with the top still down.
I’ve never tried it on mine, but I’m kind of tempted now…
We did an experiment once with a grill by plugging the holes in the lid and underneath but letting the right amount of air in and letting the gas fill up the grill then remotely activating an igniter. Though it was a small grill, the resulting explosion blew the lid off, hinges and all. Not just open, but completely off sending it 10-15 feet away. Awesome. Also deadly.
What with, someone’s little brother?
We almost had the slow kid named Joey talked into it (he later went on to blow up his family’s kitchen in a similar manner using the oven), but we used a model rocket match instead.
is this what you’re talking about? 'Cause I do that all the time. Turn the knob, push the ignition button. The gas is on maybe one second before it I push the button. Never had a problem with it.
Sure, I do it all the time. Like Icerigger, my BBQ seems to be really sensitive to the slightest breeze, so if I open it up like I’m s’posed to, it refuses to light at all.
Despite dire predictions that I’d blow myself to Kingdom Come as a result of this habit, I’m still here. No shooting flames, no explosions, not even the slightest tremor in the closed cover. If you turn on the gas and immediately hit the ignitor, there’s simply not enough gas present inside the grill for any sort of explosion.
I do it that way every time. It works better and is a non-event.
Ditto.
Huh. I thought that was standard. Sure it makes a little ‘whoomp’ sound, but I didn’t know there was any sort of danger. Something new every day.