If your three most important criteria when shopping for a new outdoor gas grill are price, price, and price, you have a friend in the Nexgrill 4-Burner Propane Grill. Nexgrill specializes in low-cost outdoor cooking products. Their vast catalog includes grills, smokers, fryers, griddles, and pizza ovens in all shapes and sizes. You can easily get your hands on many Nexgrill products at any Home Depot across the United States to kick the tires before buying.
Construction
While recently strolling Home Depot’s aisles, the $199 price of this four-burner caught our attention. The grill is lightweight, but big for the price. It weighs only 76.5 pounds while measuring 24″D x 49″W x 46″H. The open-air cart is porcelain coated steel with left and right side shelves, a couple of tool hooks, and two large plastic wheels. A stainless steel lid covers thin, porcelain-coated cooking grates. The four, 10,000 BTU stainless steel burners aren’t superpowered but may be adequate for the 421 square inch primary cook surface.
This results in a heat flux rating of 95.01 (Heat Flux is the BTU per square inch. It is a more useful measure of how much heat a grill delivers than BTU alone). A single, battery-powered ignitor fires up all four burners. Porcelain-coated steel heat tents help sizzle drippings and even out heat. A large, funnel-shaped drip plate slides in from the back, under the burners, and channels grease into a small, slide-out grease cup.
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Our Assessment
Unless you need portability, we advise going big, with a minimum of three burners. This way, you can easily create 2 zone setups with one hot zone and one moderate zone. This four-burner gasser gives you ample cooking capacity whether roasting a chicken over a moderate 2-zone setup or sizzling a bunch of burgers with all burners cranked high. Click here to learn the essential concepts of 2-zone cooking.
Warranty
The limited warranty of 5 years for the burners and 1 year for everything else is weak. Obviously, you get what you pay for. This won’t have the performance or durability of a more expensive grill, however, at the end of the day everyone has a budget. If $200 is your pain threshold the Nexgrill 4-Burner Propane Grill could be for you.
