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Default Lodge cast iron grill


"Brick" > wrote in message
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>
> 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.


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