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I purchased this item because of its light weight. I own and love my Weber Q 100, but it weights around 35 pounds. I'm getting a little older, and have very limited use of my left arm anymore. This grill is only 11 pounds which is so much easier for me to handle tailgating. I love the Griddle on top. I can toast my hamburger buns, while cooking my hamburger, make pancakes, or do eggs in the morning for breakfast, and not have to bring a skillet. Clean up on the griddle is super easy. I use Pam spray for grills on the grill its self which helps with clean up there. The heat guard or plate that sets between the burners, and the grill is a different story. It sucks to clean up. Don't melt your cheese on your burgers on the grill. Maybe the griddle, but not the grill, you don't want your cheese melting down to the heat shield. This shield also holds the grease from your burgers which causes flare ups, then lots of smoke. I also don't like the screw in valve on the side. Once you get it on you really never have to take it off. I take it off because of travel, don't want it to break, and find out to late in my parking spot trying to tailgate. Getting it on stinks. You assemble this whole grill to begin with. As you put the burner in, you put it in tail first, so that way it hangs outside of the grill, to accept valve and gas. The tail has slots in it, why I don't understand. To correct this they give you a little silver cup, to put over the tail, which gets secured as you put in the valve. This makes it hard to thread the valve properly. To me what this cup does is it covers the slots so wind does not blow out the gas, also so it can allow the gas to get into the burner, other than that you would have a nice fire next to your gas canister.
It is a nice product, with good concepts. To me tho this needs to be tweaked on a little bit more before I would recommend it to anyone.
Pros. Light weight, takes up less room, and griddle means I also don't have to bring a skillet. Pretty good tailgater all in all.
Cons. Flare ups, slots in burner tail intake.
I would also like to add that you have to put the handles on yourself, which is easy, but they give you flat washers to put on between the nut and top. You should really take these washers down to your local hardware store and match them up to lock washers, or your handles will keep coming loose. It's a pain in the butt that their engineers missed this, which is something so simple.
***** PART B ........ Last Year at Chicagoland Speedway during NASCAR race weekend I witnessed one of these grills burn. One of the families there had this grill on a waist high table. I smelled something horrible turned around and watched the green paint bubble, and black smoke rising from this grill. I yelled at them, and they got it off the table, and turned off in time to save their canopy from also going up in flames. No I don't remember what he was cooking. But like I said that heat shield holds grease, and flares up. I do apologize for not updating this after it happened. I completely forgot until I saw that someone had sent me a question on this grill. Give them all the credit for jogging my memory. Thank You R. Yu
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I was intrigued by this grill and its grill surface and griddle surface. I thought this would be great for camping and tailgating. I was right. It is easy to assemble, only takes about 15 minutes. It uses the propane canisters and heats up very quickly. I tried sausage on the grill surface and pancakes on the griddle. They cooked very evenly. It is great that I now have a grill that can do both grilling and griddling. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all covered! The only small issue that I have is that the griddle is not super secure on the top of the grill, so you have to be careful if you lift the lid. Other than that, I am very happy with this purchase.Best Deals for Cuisinart CGG-080 Griddl'n Grill Portable Gas Grill
Purchased grill for family camping vacation. Only one side of the burner works well enough to cook hotdogs. Had to put the cover on in order to get enough heat to cook the hotdogs. Had problems with flare-ups. Didn't try the griddle since we barely got adequate heat to cook the hotdogs. We used the grill only the one time on the camping trip because we were so frustrated with it and have used the grill one time since cooking on only the one side of the burner. Poor design for transporting. You feel you need to carry this thing with two hands so it doesn't come apart when moving it. Since we purchased this while at camp the box and paperwork went into the camp fire. Hoping we can return the darn thing. The reason we purchased THIS grill is because we have always trusted the Cuisinart name.Honest reviews on Cuisinart CGG-080 Griddl'n Grill Portable Gas Grill
At $55, this is a great buy. If you're looking for an affordable propane grill to take camping or tailgating, this will definitely get the job done. It's light, portable and easy to assemble. The regulator works nicely, and the griddle obviates the need for a pan.Where the lid lacks a hinge, you will need some room to set the lid and griddle aside. I recommend not attaching the chains included to connect the lid and griddle to the base.
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Bought this grill for use at football tailgates this year. I liked the small size and the portability of the unit but most of all, the integrated griddle in the cover. The combo griddle and grill feature allows us to leave the electric griddle at home and carry only one cook surface to the lot.The grill and griddle surfaces cook well, although the small size makes it difficult to cook for more than 8 people at a time. The griddle surface cooks evenly, but there is no place for the grease from bacon or sausage to run. The griddle needs to be drained manually which makes cooking larger amounts of food tedious. The grill works as expected. Burgers and brats cook easily.
The compact packaging makes transport and storage easy and convenient. The cover and griddle is supposed to have a retention chain according to the assembly instructions, but I really don't understand the purpose. Assembly is easy, although the handles should really be attached with lock washers instead of the flat washers provided.
In all, this grill is a good value and performs as expected. It is not the perfect grill for all situations, but it excels in being a portable cooking surface for small/medium groups. The grill AND griddle feature means you don't need to buy/bring additional cookware...saving money and space (the reason I bought the grill).
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