Has Weber Grills kept up their quality since the family sold and went public?

In My Humble Opinion
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Timely article, right now the E-315 or E-325 are probably the ones I’ll be getting.

Hopefully I’ll get 15+ years out of either one.

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I purchased this some years ago…

… one of my best purchases ever… You can grill, barbecue, make pizza and smoke in the same Appliance. Double walled and insulated… Which makes it extremely fuel efficient

Very well built (made in China)… So if that kind of device works for you I definitely recommend looking into it.

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I’m in the process of ordering a Weber Genesis S-315 Grill.
Stainless with about 513 square inches of cooking surface, so pretty much what I have now. As getting a unit with a burner is an extra $300, I’ll skip.

They’re on sale almost everywhere for $100 off currently. But Lowes is in theory giving me free delivery & a 10% discount as a Veteran. Great program by the way, if you are a vet. Home Depot has one also.

I went to a few stores first to check them out in person. The low end Weber are as flimsy as you would expect. The Genesis line appears to be sturdy and with a lot of small improvements over my 2008 grill.

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I’m still doing just fine with my 25-year-old Weber with just two burners, so you should be fine with 3 burners. I would not have sprung for a fourth burner, either.

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I bought mine in 2018, and it’s still working fine. The only thing that has failed is the pushbutton igniter. I’m sure I can replace it, I just haven’t gotten around to it.

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Actually, I looked it up and there’s a AA battery for the igniter. I replaced that and it’s working again.

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New grill works great but almost got whacked by a Wind Sheer last night as it took down a big chunk of our crab apple tree. At least that’s what I thought when I heard the freight train come through. Thankfully missed the grill by plenty.

It did wipe out my daughter’s avocado plant and ripped the canopy of over part of the deck.

… …

My son and I managed to chop and bundle the downed branch fairly easily in about an hour. So cleanup down. Thankfully, crabapple cuts pretty easy.

Last Friday I filled the grill with 3 pounds of burgers and a dozen brats. It heats fast and cooks evenly. Can’t ask for anything more.

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Interesting trivia about the Weber grill company. It was orginally the Weber Buoy company that made marking buoys for waterways. Mr. Stephens was an executive at the company and got the idea to flip the buoy and cut the curved top off and make it into a grill for outdoor bbq’ing for GI’s returning from WWII and starting homes in suburbia across America, ala the Weber kettle grill. Mr. Weber agreed to let Stephens try it. The rest is history. Stephens bought the company from Weber, but kept the Weber name for branding and marketing purposes. It was the Stephens family that sold the company to private equity in 2010.

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Just bought some new flavorizer bars (one of the worst feature naming ideas) since my 9 year old ones were rotted out. I did a full cleaning yesterday and the grill is open for the season.

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So I did get the Weber Master Touch grill not long after I posted this. It seems to be every bit as durable in build as my ~20 year old Weber kettle grill, which is still operable- I’m planning on taking that one up north.

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I have an older version of that model that’s still going strong. I miss the wooden handles of my previous version; although that was a change before the company was sold.