On 8-Feb-2007, " BOB" > wrote:

> "Cam" wrote
> > https://secure.lodgemfg.com/storefro...idProduct=3975
> >
> > I started surfing the Lodge website mentioned in the Tepanyaki thread
> > and saw this little hibachi style charcoal grill. Has anyone one here
> > seen one in action? I have a serious case of the wants.
> >
> > Cam
>
> Yes. Years ago. Maybe not exactly the same, but very similar and it was
> a
> Lodge.
>
> I really liked it as a small, portable grill, but I left it out in the
> rainy
> weather and it rusted to pieces. I should have taken better care of it,
> especially since it was only about $35 then and it's (WOW!) $115 now.
> Great
> for steaks, chops, burgers, hot dogs, etc.
>
> BOB

I used to have a cheap knockoff hibachi type grill shaped like that. It
worked very well, but was a cheap POS and I let it go to pot. I used
to see cast iron versions in some of the asian stores for very reasonable
prices, like $25 or less, but I never bought one and now they have dis-
appeared. I would really like to have one for grilling single steaks for
myself and SWAMBO. I am faced with making do with second best or
firing up the side firebox of my offset pit and using it as a grill. That
pretty
much uses up a chimney full of fuel wheras the hibachi would get by
with maybe eight briquettes or a similar load of lump.

I know I can improvise ways to do my single steak, but like Cam, I
have a serious case of the 'WANTS'. I'm really ****ed at myself for
not grabbing one when they were still readily available right here in
town.
--
Brick (Youth is wasted on young people)