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(More customer reviews)The Bottom Line: 3 Stars and Rising.
The Patio Bistro does its intended purpose. I like this grill the more I use it. It gets, hot, is easy to clean, and has a nice large cooking area. With time my rating may improve as the painfull memory of assebly fades into the past. This would be a nice choice for use where charcoal and propane grills are not allowed.As of this writing I have owned the Patio Bistro Grill for a little over 1 month. I own and have used various charcoal and gas grills, smokers, and barbeques over the past 30 years. I consider myself as very experienced in outdoor grilling.
This remainder of this review will be in two parts.
First the Good! The Patio Bistro Grill Does Cook Food quite Nicely: 4 Stars
Once assembled the Patio Bistro is quite a nice little grill. It has a nice large grilling surface, and heats quite adequately for grilling and roasting. Once the lid is closed, the temperatures easily rise to over 400F.
I never let it get much higher than that, though I expect it would get above 500F if left on its own.
Heating time is quite reasonable. When compared with a charcoal grill it is very quick (if you include the time it takes to light the charcoal).
I have roasted chickens, grilled hamburgers and steaks, and, using a non-stick pizza pan as a griddle have cooked bacon, eggs, and toast quite easily.
The grill surface is fairly generous in size for an electric grill; useable for cooking a dozen burgers at a single time. It even comes with a removable warming rack located at the rear of the grill.
The knobbed electric dial used to specify cooking temperature has a nice range, and the included on/off light is usefull for levelling off interior temperatures once they have been reached.
The grill surface is relatively easy to clean off, and cools quickly when unplugged. The greatest virtue of Electric Grills is in not having to buy, carry, store or ignite fuels, and KNOWING that the grill is turned off, simply by ungplugging the unit.
Second the Not So Good: Assembly: 1 star
As other reviewers have stated, this grill is unnecessarily difficult to put together.
In this day and age of premanufactured and buyer assembled products, there should be no need to designe something that requires so many different tools, different fasteners, and lengthy instructions.
It took me the better part of 90 minutes to assemble this correctly. The instructions were only marginal.
Also, Once Assembled the whole product can be a bit wobbly, so you will spend time tightening and retightening nuts and bolts.
The Bottom Line: 3 Stars and Rising.
The Patio Bistro does its intended purpose. I like this grill the more I use it. It gets, hot, is easy to clean, and has a nice large cooking area. With time my rating may improve as the painfull memory of assebly fades into the past. This would be a nice choice for use where charcoal and propane grills are not allowed.
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The Char Broil Patio Bistros represent the next evolution in patio cooking.The Patio Caddies, which were staples for Char Broil over the past decade, have been updated in design as well as cooking performance.The new Patio Bistros, are available in both electric and glass (this one is electric).The compact size, quality design, and solid construction, combined with Char Broil's continued expansion of their award winning infrared technology, yields a sleek grill and easy to use performance based grill.The Electric Patio Bistro looks like a gas grill and features precision dial electric control, a porcelain coated premium cooking grate, and 1750 watts of grilling power.As far as space the 320 square inches of grilling surface can accomodate between 8 and 12 hamburgers.
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