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Originally Posted by Fuzz
I've got the side sear burner and I use it all the time, particularity in the summer when I don't want to cook anything inside. Mine is plenty sturdy.
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Maybe it's some of the models and cheaper BBQs from a decade plus ago, but I wasn't a fan of the ones my dad had on multiple BBQs including my dad's Weber and a friend's Napoleon. The burner/side prep area was like a hooked on shelf attachment to the main body. The side piece was well built, but the metal used on the shelf bracke wasn't very good and the bracket or the track would start to bend over time. Almost seemed like they'd attach the sides to something barely stronger to the below closet bracket/track combo.
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Maybe more modern ones have a design that is better than the old ones? (ie: the bar/pillar that goes from ground to the bottom of the base I've seen in some pics). Maybe I should buy some shelf brackets to reinforce... but for sure my dad's Weber from 15 years ago is already bent at an angle from a giant 30-40 pound stock pot of soup (and/or brining turkeys?) he put on it years ago and the non-removable cover for the burner makes it not very good for any of his intended applications. Bracket started bending like 2 years in and it's been fine as long as what we put on it isn't more than 15-20 ish pounds since then.
We never bothered contacting Weber about it. We just assumed it was our own user error that caused it to bend. Plus the BBQ was a display model. Maybe it could have been a reassembly issue that caused the problem, but I think we just realized the short comings of that bracket and just worked around it.
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Originally Posted by Nyah
Same, I use mine all the time. Especially when I have to get a cast iron ripping hot to the point of smoking. I do most high heat cooking on that side burner so my house doesn't stink like smoke.
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Yeah, we can do this no problem on my dad's BBQ weight wise, but with the damn cover that never opens more than 90 degrees like the back of a camp stove, the cast iron would be limited in how far it could go on the burner.