Nope stays open all summer. We don't really bbq in the winter, so ill close it when we cover it up for the winter.
Unimportant side story. Last spring I think it was somehow a thunderstorm managed to blow my bbq off the deck. It got all bent and busted up, except for the internals. It pissed me off that, that could actually happen, and I was also annoyed that the cast iron grates on the Broil Mates were really crappy and started to rust within a couple months. I spent all winter trying to decide if I wanted a Weber, traegar or Egg or even a charcoal sidekick to replace that stupid thing. Then covid hit and we lost 75% of our household income so I didn't think dropping 1000$ plus into a bbq was the greatest idea so I spent 50$ on some new porcelain covered stainless steel grates and kept using the thing. Turned out to be a great decision. Those bbqs are made of cast aluminum so they don't really rust, so I don't even cover the stupid thing. Plus with the porcelain covered grates as long as your not using a metal brush and piercing the coating, they won't rust either. It gets great heat and pretty even heat too. It also turns out the idea of cleaning a pellet or charcoal grill after each use isn't really my style. It cooks 90% of what we want to and we'll throw a smoker box on if we want some smoked fish or something. So ill stick with that ugly but useful hunk of junk until it dies and probably replace it with something similar.
/End, boring bbq story.
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