hello I'm Wanderer001 and this is my review of the weber spirit e310
gas grill so one of the first things that you generally do when you get a new
house aside from stuff that you have to fix
inside well you get a new grill because well we needed a grill
we had a small Coleman which I will link in the upper right hand corner there but
we decided it was time to upgrade to something a little more substantial
since we actually had room for a grill and to that we could actually have a
full propane setup instead of having to use canisters now we have had family
members who use Weber's in the past and they've had them for a year so we
decided hey why not we'll go with the Weber and we'll upgrade from our
little travel Coleman so when we were originally looking for a new Weber we
were debating between this one here and the spirit too similar in every shape
way shape and form except for two major differences there are only two real
differences between the spirit here and the spirit - well three differences if
you want to think about it one being that the lid here is much taller then on
the spirit - so you can do a turkey in this if you wanted to that was what we
were told one of the other things is over here on the spear - the canister
would be on the outside in the original spirit here it's on the inside but
there's one other reason that we got it but that's in there so we'll talk about
that a little later so what you're looking at here and pardon the angle
because this is as far back as I can go because I'm leaning on a table you are
looking at 45.5 by 52 wide and 24 death now this is with the lid closed if you
open the lid obviously you will have more space now let's take a walk over
and see what you got so here you see there is actually a temperature gauge on
the outside of the spirit that's something I actually appreciate Here I
am in in shadow there so this is enamel so rust-resistant you don't have to
worry the thing with the grill small caveats are these wings here this is one
on each side these do not fold down so these are kind of permanently affixed to
this so you have to make sure that you have space for something like this
you also have three utensil hooks on either side so that gives you a total of
six up here in the front you have this plastic and we're trying to get out of
something so plastic plastic handle and it just has a little accent piece there
that's not actually though now this does get a little warm even though it does
have a lot of clearance from the actual cooktop there so we're just gonna open
that up so you get an idea of what we're looking at inside so here you can see
that's me temperature and then enamel inside you've got a top warming rack and
then your actual grill surface so what you're looking at with your primary
cooking area right there is four hundred and twenty four square inches of cooking
space and you're warming rack up there is a hundred and five square inches of
cooking space giving you a total of five hundred and twenty nine square inches of
cooking space now I left it exactly as it was after we did our last grill
session on here only because I wanted you to kind of see that you obviously do
get dirt here but I want you to see like I'm the grease on the bars and how that
looks now you will notice that these are the flat side of the grill so these do
flip over and they have more of a v-shaped grill and they're spread out a
little more but this is nice because you have a nice flat grilling surface if you
wanted to in fact the thing that we grilled yesterday or the other day was
actually pizza we did pizza dough on the grill never thought I'd do that so down
in here you have one two three four five flavor bars is what they're called so
what those actually do is a cover up the actual heating portion the fire that
comes out so this presents any drip edge from getting on to your actual bars when
fires and that's where you get your flare-ups from so that that was kind of
cool they call them flavor bars apparently because what happens is you
know drippings hit at smoke and flavor to me that just makes it easier to clean
and I have to worry about yeah burnt ends on my fire elements now you can see
somewhat of a difference and again the Lighting's really bad and this is really
greasy so I want to touch it and the camera but that has heat under it so
that's where fire comes out and this one does not so you can see there is a color
difference there now the box itself you know again we've been grilling quite
often a heck of a lot more than we have then or in the condo with our small
little grill that's up that is what we're looking at and in fact why don't I
roll in some of the things that we cooked on here because you know you
don't do a review of a grill without actually having like some mmm sizzling
meat so meat montage
away
now we're just gonna come back and close them up a very hefty lid so there's a
lot of weight behind that I do like that and we're gonna come down here only
because one I'm gonna show you this area here lift that up a little bit and I
have added the Sun you can kinda see that it doesn't rip and splatter onto
this front panel here so and that's the other thing why I was mentioning the
sides you can kind of see that's stainless steel and that stainless steel
so even if you keep this covered when you're using it you're gonna get like
some dirt and you're gonna have to keep up with that if you don't want it
looking like I have right now so coming down here we have our electric starter
and then three actual zones of heat so the way this works is you would turn
this after your propane is on which is hidden here so you turn your starter
look you turn your first burner to light position here and then hit start and
then what happens is you just chain each of the burners over now I will say that
despite having this weird picture on the front of it not a fan of that but these
are rather substantial and responsive no so I do like that now coming down to the
cabinet this is again the difference between the spirit to in the spirit here
so again closed cabinet kinda like that it does have these ventilated side on
either side which I do appreciate my one concern is I've seen a lot of reviews
where people said that this area rusts out which is why I got a cover I'll show
you that a little later I'm hoping that that kind of prevents that from
happening I can't guarantee it what I'm hoping because it's all painted so I
don't see why it would rust out unless you just left it out to the elements so
we'll see I guess it also depends on where you live but coming back to the
cabinet we're gonna open this up and here you are going to see your fuel
tank here with a little cutout so you do have a cutout there to prevent it from
sitting up too high because it also come in here and hopefully it's not dark
enough but we have a little gauge that the tank sits on to let you know so
there we go see if I shift it how much is left in the tank so that's kind of
neat that you have that feature again Weber is the first place that I saw this
over here on the left you have your igniter now that is operated by a single
double-a battery is recommended that you change that every year to prevent
oxidation or corrosion of the battery so for me every fourth of July before I'm
gonna change that out and here you've got your matchstick light for those that
wonder what that chain is it also has an integrated drip and shelf here and it
does have the little tin drip pan but we just kind of covered it in tin foil to
kind of extend the life of the drip pan so we don't have to go and buy a bunch
of disposable ones now the big difference between the spirit two and
the og spirit here and the reason we went with it is this here this is
another drip pan so we lined this with tin foil again try and make it easy
cleanup because we did let it drip into here once originally and well it's easy
to take out and clean if we can just get away with that we might as well coming
back up to the top here looking down in there camera doesn't want to really
focus but what you're looking at is down through the bottom
the grill so what it does is scrape out and clean out so they go there so you
don't have to take that out and cleaning that was one of the main reasons that we
went with this instead of the spirit two now the spirit you is $50 cheaper
so the question is are those features worth it for you
taller box removable drip pan and having the tank on the inside not the outside Yeah
right come around to the back here for a moment because I want you to see that
it's not entirely enclosed if you look right here it's actually got an open
back so that's why it is important to have a cover so we did when we went and
picked ours up ended up going with the recommended Weber cover again I'll have
a link for that in the description area because well I thought about getting a
cheap cover but with something like this it just seemed like a smarter idea to
get a good cover to protect your investment because what we're talking
about here is a $500 grill now this is more than I ever thought I would spend
on something like this but again a friend has had it for years and has had
no problem so we want it to go with something that we knew would last and
would be good now there's some things to also consider and that is registering
your grill I know it seems like an odd thing to do but if you don't register it
there's a lot of things that won't be covered in the future so if you do
register your grill which I highly recommend you get a 10 year warranty on
the lid assembly which means no burn through or rust for two years which is
something separate than the lid assembly the cook box is good for 10 years no
burn through or rust for two years porcelain enamel
cast iron cook great so inside there will be good for five years again no
burn through a rust Floris porcelain enamel flavor Iser bars
which I still think is a weird name good for two years
and all remaining parts good for two years so all in all even though it is an
expensive grill compared to again like Coleman which I've used in my condo we
have actually grilled on this in the few months that we have had it here than the
entirety that we grilled on the Coleman that we had in our condo while the grill
is a very large size it is semi mobil with these wheels it's got four of them
one in each corner and the front ones do lock so not only does it give you a
somewhat mobility option you also have stability once you
actually get it where you want and lock into place yeah one other thing I don't
normally do this but when I find a local retailer that I really like and
appreciate I further you know a little little something at the end here so if
you are anywhere near Nanuet in New York I would recommend checking out country
gas Service Inc it looks like a hole in the wall it is hard to find you might
even drive past it but one the grille was the same price as a big-box store so
think of it that way and - this is a place that Hank Hill would love to work
at think of it like that these people before I even told them I was going to
buy a grill you go in there you get an education and that is an important thing
one other thing to consider they do deliver but no extra price they assemble
your grill for you so that was another thing that I was reading one of the
people things have people didn't like about this grill it took about three
hours for somebody who's never done it to assemble and I mean several people
said it took us about three plus hours to assemble so free assembly education
same price as a big box store they also sell you propane so if you need tanks
which I did they sell though you do that too and they'll refill your tanks so
again if you're anywhere near Nanuet New York country gas services inc well worth
checking out the Weber spirit e310 gas grill here again a little pricey of
five hundred dollars but well worth it I've grilled lots of things you saw the
montage it's it's awesome so I have been Wanderer001 if you have any questions or
comments please leave them in the area below and as always thanks for watching