New Product: Salamangrill
"As part of my attempt to get some feedback from you on new products I'd like to introduce the Twin Eagles Salamangrill: http://www.twineaglesinc.com/salamangrill.shtml
This is the first residential salamander on the market. Twin Eagles is a maker of high end stainless steel gas grills and outdoor cooking appliances. This year they have introduced this little unit, available in May. If you are not familiar with a salamander, it is a piece of restaurant equipment used to cook things like steaks that you what seared hot and fast. A top mounted infrared burner focuses more than 1000 degrees F down on foods giving you intense heat for quick cooking. You have four positions for the adjustable cooking surface that lets you pull away on items like vegetables, but get right up under the heat on red meats. This is the unit that makes professional steaks.
The Twin Eagles unit was demonstrated to me by Chef John Pivar (James Beard winner). He cooked three ribeyes, an inch thick in about 8 minutes with this unit. He also made a pizza in about 2 minutes (after preheating a pizza stone first). t looks impressive, but is small. You'd have trouble fitting 4 good sized steaks in the thing. It will take a ten inch pizza stone. I'm told it will retail around $1,600. It is not a mounted unit, though at around 85 pounds it isn't portable either.
So? What do you think? Would you buy one?"
Comments
OK, so I love my steak and I bought this unit. It does a good job, but doesn’t rock my world. For $1,500, I’d expect it to be outstanding. It just doesn’t seem to put out that scorching heat that you need and there is not that much room. Other foods cook well with it, but you can use the standard gas grill for that. Would I recommend one, No. If you want the sear, load up the weber with mesquite, go for it.
P.S. I’m down to 7 BBQ’s, having sold off 3.