Alfresco ALXE 36-Inch Built-In Propane Gas Grill With Rotisserie - ALXE-36-LP

Excellent grill, we upgraded from an outdated grill model, and couldn't be happier. We LOVE it!

I bought this grill at the end of last season. I'm an experienced cook/griller and I noticed this grill runs way too hot. With the burners set to low, your pushing 550 degrees which was the max on my old weber. Flare ups are insane on this grill. My friends have alternative brands that are professional grade and that problem doesn't exist. It's been well over a month or more with 2 trips from an outsourced appliance repair company. The kid was taking things apart and I asked him to look into the regulator and boom, the regulator says Liquid propane (LP) and I ordered a NG grill. This is what's been causing this. So basically for close to a year, my grill has taken a beating running excessively hot. What I'm more concerned about is there's other orafaces I believe and I worry that this is in total a LP grill, not a NG. I feel the company should send their local rep out. This is a HUGE investment and unacceptable from a supposed American company. In addition, I NEVER GOT MY REBATE CHECK. I believe from the amount I purchased I was due $400. It's been so long I don't even remember, but I filled out the proper forms.......I'm extremely disappointed and considering calling my cc company. My advice is BUY ANOTHER BRAND

Things I love: - Extremely well built - Heats up fast - Externally accessible smoker tray with dedicated smoker burner - Strong hidden-chain rotisserie - Electropolished grill grates (including the warming rack and the rotisserie spit, I believe) make it really easy to keep clean - Extra-large warming rack holds full-sized platters, full racks of ribs, and is truly usable as additional cooking surface - Even when cooking on lower settings, drippings never sem to make it down to the drip tray so that stays clean Things that took some getting used to: - The back of the grill is significantly hotter because the burners are U-shaped. No big deal now that I know consistency of temperature is left to right not front to back. - The grill gets much hotter than any other grill I've used. My old Weber was operated on High most of the time but this is only on High when I'm heating it up. - Can be prone to flareups when too hot. This took the most to get used to. When set just right, the drippings smoke nicely infusing taste into the food. Let it get too hot and the drippings will flare up. The downside to the lower setting though is that drippings seem to accumulate on the ceramic briquetes so you have burn it off after you are done cooking or during warm up next time.

I've used the grill a handful of times to cook chicken and shrimp. It is extremely smoky and when you open the cover to turn meat, etc I'm in a cloud of smoke. Checked burns good, cleaned grill ceramics, still smoke. Don't know what to do next but disappointed with this purchase.

Grill heats up fast, is easy to control and built heavy duty. Have used it a couple times a week since we got it. Everything we cook on it turns out great! I would recommend this grill to anyone!