Why pay for sheet metal and cheap burners when you can learn, compare, and get a quality grill in the same price range? For Gas Grills 101 check out "How to Choose", "Major Differences", and "What to Look for" at www.picksinc.com/GasGrills/home.htm For Gas Grills 201 check out the "GrillTalk Message Board" at www.picksinc.com/Grilltalk.htm Don't spend $500 or $1000 for a grill that is poorly constructed, made of sheet metal, and has cheap burners!

The unit seems nice enough, especially for the sale price of $499. But, I look at what the grill has to offer and it's features, and I would be very hard pressed not to spend another $100 and go with the Members Mark from Sam's Club. Both the Kenmore grill that you are looking at and the one at Sam's are made by Grand Hall, so the quality is equal. The one at sears seems to have a few things I would not like. The plastic casters for one, they seem to remind me of cheap office furniture casters. Also, the grates are porcelin coated iron, the Members Mark is three seperate grates made of SS, so nothing to chip. The BTU's seem to be about the same for the side burner and rotisserie, but the entire grill is only 40K BTU's. That seems to me to leave only 18K for the three main burners, only 6K each! That seems alot less than the three 18K burners that the Members Mark offers totaling 54K just for the mains. If you really wanted to sear a steak nicely, I think the Kenmore might not do it very well. The included smoker box is nice, but that is an item you can pick up reasonably anywhere. I see a little SS on the lid, panel, and doors, but that seems to be about it. The Members Mark has SS hood, side shelves, side burner and practically everything you can see. The exceptions are a few items made from steel and the lid has cast alluminum ends similar to the Kenmore except they are not painted like the Kenmore seems to be. I do like the slide out tray for the lp bottle on the Kenmore better than the exposed one on the Members Mark, but that is probably a personal preference. The draw back is that you have less interior space underneath for storage of rotisserie, griddle, smoking chips, etc... In my honest opinion, it seems the Members Mark from Sams club is a much better value for only another $100. Even if you don't have a membership that's another $35. Still worth it! I am not trying to push the Members Mark (actually I own a Virco and love it), but for the difference in features and $$ I think the Members Mark is one hell of a grill for $599 if that is all you can spend. Now, of course, if you've got $799.........Well, the Virco can't be beat! (You Virco guys new that was coming) If you haven't seen the Members Mark from Sam's, I highly suggest you check it out. I have included a link below of Alek's site. A very happy MM owner who has an excellent site on this grill that is very informative. Good luck on your purchase. Oh, by the way, if you haven't seen pictures of the Virco, you can see those at MY web site! http://www.equinoxcs.com/Grillingweb/index.htm Here is a link that might be useful: Members Mark from Sams club

Hello, I have a Kenmore gas grill ( I think it's made by Char Broil) I can't locate the serial number on it. BEWARE, please check your connections at the gas hose to the front dials and burner assembly. Any good conection at this point SHOULD be, a brass coulpler. My grill has a barbed fitting connected to the hose with a crimped band. THAT CONNECTION FAILS...If you left the gas on at the bottle valve you will have propane leaking out of the connection. THIS is VERY BAD. If your cooking something and the connection is leaking .... Take coverrrrrr.................. This also is bad. This unit ... with the crimped connection is nothing short of a fire bomb ... Inspect your connection and if there is any dought call the 800 number on the grill... if you can find it. I was lucky .... the connection failed and my front knobs melted and fire was shooting out of the knob holes. BUT i'm not hurt... PLEASE be safe .. Scott

Wow! The people writing to Amazon seem to be justifiably outraged. Fortunately, my 30-inch (not built-in) Lynx Pro with dual Pro-Fire burners has worked well, once sorted out. This was purchased through an appliance store in 2015. I do not use it often, since I like to thoroughly clean it each time, but it has been reliable when it needs to be. Most of the complaints on Amazon seem to be earlier than this, so maybe Lynx made some needed design or fabrication changes. On initial testing after delivery, one of the two screened burner assemblies on my grill would heat up and then develop a fuel-air leak causing it to pulsate. Lynx promptly replaced this assembly. Once I was satisfied that the burners were both working correctly and had good alignment with the gas jets, I extended the flame range per the directions in the supplied manual. This involves turning a screw in the control shaft for each burner to tune the low end of the gas flow range. Flow should be set to achieve the lowest stable flame. In comparing this to other options, such as its low priced Kenmore predecessor, one should consider that the imputed interest on the cost of the Lynx, using the real CPI (see http://www.shadowstats.com/) would allow purchase and throwout of a minimal Kenmore gas grill every few years. However, the Kenmore is relatively uncleanable, so if one likes cost-effective "crusty" cooking, he should stick with cheap grills. The all stainless steel Lynx is easy to clean (albeit time consuming) and the grill assemblies can be soaked for as long as needed to ease complete cleaning without any fear of rusting. kas