- I'm delighted to have the grilling experts
Ben and Brent from The Meat Hook.
You might recognize them from our sister show Prime Time,
but this is the Kitchen Gadget Test Show.
- It is?
- Today we're testing three different grills,
the Weber, the KUDU, and the BioLite.
So pricepoint, the Weber goes for about $90 to $110,
the KUDU goes for a whopping $500.
- Whoa!
- And then the BioLite, $200.
- Okay.
- Not bad for a high-tech gadget.
- Yeah. - Let's find out.
- So we are gonna start assembling.
We're just gonna take it out of the box
and see what's the easiest to assemble.
- Okay. - Very, very simple.
Okay, starting with the Weber.
I mean, the Weber is standard, right?
So it's pretty easy to put together.
- We'll say that now before we actually put it together.
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- I'm trying not to hammer your fingers.
- Ah! - (gasps) Oh my God!
And...
- Done!
- So 10 minutes--
- 10 minutes. - Assembling the Weber grill.
- [Ben] Yeah.
- So super easy, pretty cheap, let's move on
to the next one. - Let's go.
- I will be shocked if this thing doesn't fall apart
as I pick it up.
- I put it together!
- So now we're gonna move on to the KUDU.
They claim that we don't need any external tools.
- All right, let's do it.
- It's pretty simple.
You just screw the legs to the body.
We're done.
Guys, last but not least, the BioLite.
- [Ben and Brent] Ooh.
- Which, I don't know about you guys,
I'm very excited for.
There's almost no assembly required.
Wait, why does this look
really confusing right now? - Yeah.
- Does that look confusing to you?
- That just got insanely
confusing. - Yeah.
Wait, did we do this right?
- I don't know, we've never--
- You totally didn't do this right.
This long part is supposed to be on this side.
- Oh! - You know what I mean?
- That makes more sense.
- Okay, we screwed up.
- Screwing in four screws took longer than
assembling an entire Weber grill.
- Yeah, why?
- No idea.
- Okay guys, so we assembled all three grills.
- Mm-hm.
- What are we feeling?
Are we feeling like one's better than another, or what?
- I'm feeling really good about this KUDU.
- Fully confident that both of these are gonna be great.
I don't even wanna use this one already, but--
- Aw. - I know.
I'm sorry, Mr. BioLite.
I know it's a junior version compared to this,
but I'm not sure why you would spend more money
on something that is potentially not as useful as a Weber.
- So guys, to be fair, we're just gonna use lump charcoal
for all three. - Okay.
- And you guys brought some special treats from your shop.
- If you're gonna test a grill, you've gotta make a burger.
We brought in a bone-in rib-eye.
- So we're gonna do it one by one, starting with the Weber,
make it easy, and then we'll move on.
- I love it.
- Let's load it up.
We have some charcoal already in there.
- The good think about, I think, about a Weber,
is because it has such a wide diameter,
you can really move the coals around
so that you have different concentrations of heat.
We can push all these to one side
so we have a really hot surface,
and once we get a good sear
and we wanna cook the steaks all the way through,
we can move 'em over to lesser heat.
Ooh, sizzling.
- Hey, that looks great.
- [Ben] That's what a steak should look like.
- [Esther] Yep, beautiful.
- How are we feeling about our burgs?
- I think they're about ready.
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- [Esther] It's the burger from the grill masters.
- Oh, like medium.
That's a little bit more than I thought it would be.
Here you go, Ben.
- Guys, I still really like burgers.
- Uh-huh.
- Okay, Brent, wanna do the honors?
- I would love to.
Nothing gives me greater joy than judging Ben.
It feels great, man.
- Yes, it's perfect.
- [Brent] Steak on a Weber.
- Yeah, and it took what, eight minutes?
Really high heat, got a nice sear.
Look, you can see the fat-- - Mm-hm.
- [Ben] Really rendered out.
- So obviously it's the standard.
How do you really improve on this?
- I'm not sure.
I think this is a pretty great standard,
so-- - Yeah.
- I'm excited to see what this KUDU is all about.
- [Esther] Yeah, it's gonna be hard to beat.
- [Ben] Yeah.
- [Esther] Right?
- Well, let's try. - Let's do it.
The grill is lit, we're ready to roll.
- I'm hungry again.
Let's do it. - Good.
Am I going for it?
You guys are going...
Okay. - This is all you.
This thing's pretty cool.
We're moving, we're shaking.
- Okay, so we can move it,
so that's cool. - We're gonna move that.
That's hot.
- Guys, we could just take it off if we wanted to.
- Oh my God, there are so many options with KUDU.
Get in there!
- Get in there, all right.
- Start grilling!
- [Esther] I didn't hear a sizzle though, is that weird?
- Yes, should be a sizzle.
Let me, let me...
More charcoal!
- Charcoal!
Give me, give me.
Give me, give me, give me.
Give me another one, give me another one.
- No, no, no, no, 'cause I gotta get your side.
I gotta get your side. - All right, get...
- [Esther] Yeah, we're lowering the grill.
- [Brent] Yeah.
- And obviously, by doing this,
you're getting the grate hotter.
Woo!
This is hot.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Here you go.
- Oh. - Go ahead and flip it.
- [Brent] This is how friends grill.
- [Esther] Do we like the fact that this can be moved?
- Three things I really like.
I love that it goes up and down,
I love that it goes side to side,
and I love that I can make my classic paella.
I really love the versatility of this a lot.
I'm a fan.
I'm a KUDU boy.
- You're a KUDU boy? - Wow, wow.
- I'd say as far as cooking goes,
I think straight grilling,
this is probably the most fun.
I would definitely already never want to clean this thing.
- It's been a whole hour since I had a steak.
Steak's are getting burned, steak's are getting burned.
Gotta flip that, flip that.
KUDU!
Oh, I'll tell you what I'm liking about this grate.
Look at the crosshatching on those burn marks.
That's nice. (Brent whistling)
You don't need to flip it or anything like that.
That's beautiful.
Let's pull it.
- [Esther] Let's pull it.
- [Brent] Esther, I'm about to...
- Oh, cut into the burger?
- Test the burger here. - Did I do a better job
than this guy?
- You did a better job.
Congratulations, you win.
- Perfect burger.
The KUDU can do a burger.
- [Ben] Should we cut into the steak?
- [Esther] Yeah, let's cut into the steak.
- Wow. - Wow.
That actually looks beautiful.
- That looks amazing.
- I'm really impressed.
I mean, I think, obviously this is a nice grill,
but I think you did a great job
and with nice, hot, even charcoal,
you were able to grill a perfect rare steak.
- Yeah. - Thank you very much,
but I do think that being able to sort of move
the heat around really helped
without having to move the charcoal--
- Yeah. - Inside, right?
- Yeah.
- So I really like that.
Love it, a little expensive.
Moving on to the BioLite.
- [Ben] Let's do it.
- Look at this guy.
- It's cute. - It's cute.
- It's adorable. - Sleek design.
- Yeah.
- We dumped two chimneys-worth of charcoal
on the grate on the inside here,
so it's already extremely hot.
- Yep.
- This is exactly why I'm kind of curious
why you would spend a couple hundred dollars on this
is you can fit one more burger on here.
- [Esther] You could put two more burgers on there.
- Okay, you can fit two more burgers on there.
My point remains the same.
- [Brent] You can see the charcoal actually getting hotter--
- [Ben] As the wind is pushing by.
- [Brent] A lot more oxygen hitting it.
- Yeah. - Exactly.
So our charcoal's gonna burn faster,
so everything's gonna be hotter, which is cool.
- So it gets a lot hotter than the other grills
because it has like a 360 air circulation
that's keeping the charcoals burning--
- Right. - At its max.
- It's visibly hotter than the other grills.
- [Brent] These burgers are almost done,
and they've been on for three minutes.
- [Esther] Yeah, exactly.
Kind of a similar time as the other grills,
but a way better sear.
- Yeah.
That was super-easy to grill two burgers.
- Mm-hm.
- If that's where, if we're gonna do that
and a couple of veggies,
I think this is actually a pretty great little grill,
but you wanna see how we do with the steak?
- Yeah, let's do the steak.
I don't know, I think that--
- This might actually work pretty well.
- Yeah, and also, you guys are forgetting the point
of it being portable, right?
It's either take this grill camping, or have no grill.
- You can fit it in your car, you can take it to the park.
That is sizzling.
- Mm-hm, and what, that was like three minutes on there?
- Again, worked really well.
- [Esther] Worked really well.
- Good sear, good char, fair in the middle.
- Thank you.
- That's a great burger.
- I have to say, for my third burger of the day,
it's just as good as the second one and the first one.
- Yeah.
Quickest burger of the day,
just as good as number one and number two.
- [Esther] That's beautiful.
Still very beautiful.
- Looks good, but I think worth mentioning
that the steak from the KUDU looked a little bit nicer.
- [Ben] It's still nice and rare.
- So I think ultimately,
you still wanna be able to control your heat a little bit,
move your proteins around so that they can get a nice,
even cook. - Yeah.
- And this is just a smaller grill,
so maybe buy a smaller steak.
It did a great job with the burgers,
maybe not meant for a larger rib-eye.
For an extra hundred dollars on top of the Weber,
you're not buying any more cooking surface.
- Esther, it's your house, it's your show,
which was your favorite of the three?
- I'm gonna go with the Weber.
- Yeah? - I'm a classic girl, so...
- Where are you going, B?
- Staying classic, going with the Weber.
- I think I'm going Weber too.
We got three for three, Weber.
- I think, just to note, why I chose the Weber
was really the price point.
I think the KUDU is amazing.
It's really awesome. - Yeah.
- But it's just really expensive,
it just doesn't justify that $500 pricepoint.
And that's always ultimately the most important thing.
Is it worth it?
- Totally. - Mm-hm.
- So what is the grill for you?
Obviously, the clear winner here, Weber.
It's the Weber.
- Three out of three numbskulls agree.
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