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Disappointing
To be perfectly honest, it's not anything like what I hoped for, especially considering the price. And I paid considerably less than this for mine.From the photos I'd seen online, the Ziggy looked great, and the trolley blends well with the barbecue units itself.The problems are down to how the grillstream cast iron grills fit into the BBQ. It feels rather as though the BBQ was sourced somewhere and then the grillstream grills bodged into it. There are support points cast into the aluminium body that are supposed to hold the grills, but you have to use a piece of folded metal hitched over the front edge of the BBQ which one part of the grills rest on to make them tilt backwards. This is so that the fat and oils from the cooking runs down the the channels in the grillstream grills and doesn't drip and cause flare ups. However because the grils don't therefore sit on the cast support points all the way around, they can be a bit wobbly. Why not just cast the support points properly such that the grills sit on them and are tilted due to varying height of the supports?The other issue I have is that the burners under each half of the grill are in a roughly square shape. To spread the heat out there's a vaguely figure of eight shaped piece of metal on legs that sits above the burners. This also stops any fat dripping into the burner holes. The idea is that the burners heat the piece of metal, and the metal then radiates this heat onto the grills. However what actually seems to happen is that you end up with a very hot spot above the centre of the square of the burner, where there's also a hole on the diffuser metal, and where lots of hot gasses rise up. This gives you a very hot area right in the centre of each grill. The only way I've found to try and work around this is to run the burner on high for five-ten minutes with the lid closed, to really distribute the heat across the entire grill area (the area at the front is particularly difficult to heat up otherwise too). Then when I'm ready to cook, I turn the burners down to try and minimise the amount of heat rising up in the centre of the grill.And the temperature gauge gets moisture in it if you let the BBQ get wet in the rain. And the first time I cleaned the inside of the BBQ after the previous summer a load of the interior coating came off.The Grillstream idea itself is actually rather clever and simple, but a lot of the rest of the product design is sadly below par.So for the money, and we're talking several hundreds of pounds, I really expected much better.
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