# Infrared Gas Grills

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infrared-gas-grills/312041>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 11, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infrared-gas-grills/312041 "2005-07-11T18:40:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infrared-gas-grills/312041/1 "2005-07-11T18:40:21Z")

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Has anybody ever used, or have any experience, with one of these little portable gas/infrared grills?

[http://www.rasmussen.biz/store/categories.asp?cat=13](http://www.rasmussen.biz/store/categories.asp?cat=13)  
[http://www.tecinfrared.com/Outdoor/Cherokee.aspx?series=Overview](http://www.tecinfrared.com/Outdoor/Cherokee.aspx?series=Overview)

I’m looking for a new gas grill for camping. One that I can make perfect steaks and chops on and still throw in the back of the car. The higher-end steakhouses at which I’ve eaten claim they cook their meats at about 1800 °F; this particular type of grill is supposed to be capable of reaching that temperature.

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**Author:** ![rpinrd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@rpinrd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rpinrd)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/infrared-gas-grills/312041/2 "2005-07-11T20:52:50Z")

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Can’t comment on either of the models you linked to, but my outdoor gas grill uses a vertically mounted (on the back wall) infrared “burner” for rotisserie cooking. We’ve used it twice this year and it produces awesome chicken. It takes about 1 – 1.5 hrs to cook a whole chicken, but the result is very juicy bird with a real nice color on the outside. I will say though that out of the two times, once I ended up having to augment the infrared burner with the traditional burners down below at the very end just to make sure the bird got up to 180F internally. I have a nice digital probe thermometer and Mrs. nrd and I are somewhat fanatical about cooking chicken, so, one way or another that bird was going to get up to 180 before it got off the spit.

However, like I said, this is only a vertical mount rotisserie unit, so I can’t comment on the grills you linked to.