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|    Snidely to All    |
|    Re: A question about outdoor cooking gri    |
|    15 Dec 21 18:17:05    |
      From: snidely.too@gmail.com              Just this Wednesday, Roger House puzzled about:       > On Wednesday, December 15, 2021 at 4:16:43 AM UTC-5, Snidely wrote:       >>       >> After serious thinking Roger House wrote :       >>> Does anybody know if there are currently any companies that make and sell       >>> any multiple individual burner free standing outdoor grills, but ones that       >>> are electric? When I say that, I do NOT mean an electric powered pellet       >>> grill. No propane, no gas, no wood, no wood pellets, no wood chips, no       >>> wood sawdust, and no charcoal. In other words, imagine an electric coil       >>> VERSION OF a, let's say, 6 burner free standing propane grill, but one       >>> that has ONLY one power cord. If not, does anybody know if it would be       >>> possible to design and build such a thing? Thank you.       >       >>       >> Consider that a 4 burner electric kitchen stove requires heavy duty       >> wiring.       >>       >       > Yes...... ?              Now make that 6 burners.              >> ISTR some electric hibachis in days past, probably in the 8x16 (inches)       >> range, with most of the grill surface heated by the single element.       >>       >       > But that isn't/wouldn't be what I would want. Using my example that is in my       > OP, I would want 6 individual, "each one works independently of all the       > others", (so to speak, for lack of a better way of saying it), burners, but       > with ONLY ONE power/plug in cord. The kind of set up/design, that, like you       > can with a 6/multiple burner propane grill, at first, you can turn all of the       > burners on to get the whole thing hot, and then, once it IS hot, you can turn       > SOME of the burners off so that you can cook with indirect heat. As I said       > in my OP, just an electric coil burner version of a multi burner propane       > grill.              That power cord is going to be heavy duty. Why not just turn on a       single burner a little earlier and give it time to warm the device up?                     >> City regulations mean that the apartment I'm in isn't allowed to have       >> gas (any flavor) or charcoal barbecues.       >>       >       > Same, or at least similar, thing where I live. I live in a condo complex       > that was built in I *THINK* 1970 that started out as apartments. For a long       > time, we could not have *ANY* grills of ANY kind or any other type of outdoor       > cooking device. Now, we can have ONLY electric grills. BECAUSE OF       > situations/laws like this, I would think, (but of course I could be wrong),       > that there would be a great market for something(s) like I describe.       > Snidely, are you allowed to have those upright, electric outdoor smokers       > where you live?              I don't know definitively about the smokers but I believe they qualify.        I haven't looked up the city ordinance, just the summary note about it       that's in my lease.              /dps                     --       You could try being nicer and politer       > instead, and see how that works out.        -- Katy Jennison              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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