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   Message 144,174 of 144,831   
   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   
      
      
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