Yes. I bought another grill, a Weber Performer.
I believe this is the premium, not the deluxe.
I did not get the one with the gas assist because I did not want that
for lighting the charcoal.
Now, there are some specific reasons why I purchased this exact kettle.
I'll get to that in a minute.
But just to cover a couple of features, I mean, the first most obvious feature is
it's on a cart, has a big old table here, which is really nice to have.
I learned that when I got the SnS Grills kettle, and that has that flip up
table on the side, which is much smaller than this, but which is incredibly useful.
I honestly didn't believe I would think it was that useful, but it is.
This also has a little built
in timer that you can remove from there and keep track of things.
It has hooks to hang your tongs, your spatula on,
and it has a charcoal bin which tilts out.
It also has a built in lid holder.
In many ways, this is
just like the Weber Kettle master touch, except it's on a cart.
Now, I made a few modifications to this already to bring it up
to the standards, which honestly I think Weber should do on their own.
Two of the modifications I actually purchased from SnS grills.
They'rer standard on the SnS Grills kettle, which I've done a video on before.
I added a sensor port and what's generally known as the smoke hole.
Now, by drilling through the kettle body, I'm sure I voided the warranty, but
sometimes that's the risk and the price you pay in order to do modifications.
And I'm very happy I did it.
The top hole is a half inch hole.
The bottom one is a one inch hole.
The screw holes to mount the cover plates, I believe, are three sixteenths.
I didn't do a video on doing those modifications,
but they're fairly simple if you know how to use a drill.
I simply drilled everything out, cleaned it up,
hit it with some high temp barbecue paint.
The final modification I did was this.
I added a thermometer on the same side as the vent lower down
closer to grate level, just like on the SnS Grills kettle.
And this should work really well to give more accurate temperatures
closer to what's actually at grate level.
But now let me talk a little bit about the specific reason I purchased this kettle.
And to do that, we need to look inside.
Now, inside the performer is my Malory M1 Cast Iron Grate.
This used to live on my copper kettle, and that's
one of the reasons I purchased this, the Performer.
The Weber Kettle, just like the Weber Kettle Master Touch, has a front leg
and two back wheels.
Even the SnS Grill's kettle has two wheels in the back, two legs in the front,
and those two legs in front are an amazing addition to a kettle.
Weber should just go ahead and do that.
But when you have something like a cast iron grate in there,
it makes that top heavy.
And in order to move the kettle,
you have to lift it up so that front leg isn't dragging and move it.
And there have been a number of times when I've lifted that handle
on the kettle to move it.
And that extra weight of the cast
iron grate making it top heavy has made the kettle tip backwards on those wheels.
The lid is flipped off, falling the ground, dented itself.
But I've learned to be more careful with that.
Except now I've added something else to my kettle cooking arsenal. I'll show you.
I added another big hunk of metal to this cooking setup.
That's the Malory Firewall.
Now I'm gonna be doing a separate video on this,
but it adds a significant amount of weight to the kettle.
And when I combine that with the cast iron grate, in my opinion, it's
just almost too much weight for the kettle to handle when you're moving it.
It really wants to tip over.
So I went with something with four wheels.
I don't have to tip it to move it. I just roll it around.
Don't have to worry about knocking the lid off or anything tipping over.
Now I have a stable, safe platform
for using my favorite cooking grate and some new accessories.
Think I'm really going to enjoy this performer.