TEC Grills vs Infrared Grills
Infrared grills burn food, have a learning curve, and are unsafe. These are all common things you'd hear when researching infrared grills, but are they true? Well, for current infrared grills on the market, there's only one brand that has beaten all of these hurdles and truly mastered infrared grilling.
How Are TEC Grills Different From Infrared Grills?
Infrared gas grills come in two main burner types, ceramic and TEC grill's unique, radiant glass panel system. So what's the difference?
Two Types Of Infrared Burners
Below we'll explain the two main types of burners.
TEC's Radiant Glass Panel System
TEC's infrared burner is made of 304 stainless steel and not ceramic and protected by radiant glass panels that disperse heat like a ceramic burner would but without the potential of cracking your burner. With a TEC grill, your burner will never come in contact with food, and temperature spikes and flare-ups are eliminated due to the glass panels. So you get the same quality searing as steakhouses but without the worries of damaging your burner or burning your food.
Ceramic Infrared Burner
With ceramic burners, you are prone to flare-ups due to the direct flame access; some prefer this for flame charring, but this burner cannot reach lower temperatures needed for smoking. If you're familiar with ceramic material, you'd know that if cold water hits hot ceramic, it will crack, and if that happens to your ceramic burner, it's unusable. These burners are also prone to temperature spikes, which often burns food due to its high heat if you're not careful.
Do TEC Grills Burn Food?
With ceramic infrared burners, tempature spikes are a common thing due to its open burner and lack of effective temperature control. These types of burners are also prone to flare-ups from food drippings and can crack if they come into cold liquids when the grill is hot.
However, with TEC infrared grills this is not the case, you can pour marinade or even beer right onto your food without damaging your burner due to TEC's radiant glass that keeps heat levels stable and protects the non-ceramic 304 stainless steel infrared burners. TEC gas grills also allow you to reach low temperatures of 200°F which is the ideal temperature for smoking meats. You get all the benefits of infrared grilling without any of ceramic infrared burners drawbacks, TEC has truly mastered infrared grilling and brought steakhouse quality grilling to consumers in a powerhouse grill.
TEC Grill's Core Features
Looking for a char broil infrared grill, or maybe one that can be used as a smoker? Well, TEC infrared grills can do it all, from searing, steaming, to a pizza oven.
Rapid pre-heat
When preheating on high with the hood closed, TEC grills reach temperatures of 850° - 900° F in just 10 minutes.
No Flare Ups
Stainless steel cooking grates sit directly on top of the radiant glass panels, preventing airflow that ignites food drippings and causes flare-ups.
No Hot/Cold Spots
Burners distribute heat evenly across the cooking grates. Every square inch of the cooking surface is available for grilling, and temperatures can be easily controlled by the simple turn of a knob.
Tender, Juciy, Charbroiled Flavor
Radiant glass panels block rising hot air from burners that dry out food, so food retains up to 35% more of its juices. Drippings are incinerated on the heated glass, creating rich, smoky vapor that flavors food.
Self-cleaning Cooking Surface
Clean-up is quick and easy--close the hood and turn your grill on high for 10-15 minutes. Food drippings and debris are incinerated.
Which TEC Grill Is Right For You?
Not sure which TEC infrared grill is right for you? Give us a call and speak with an expert, we will help you pick the perfect grill for your lifestyle.
