More control

Every grill – even ours – takes a little longer to cook when it’s very cold or very windy. But not every grill will let you keep a controlled low heat going under those conditions. (Some of the others will even let the flame blow out while the gas keeps flowing).

There are devotees who define "barbecue" as a "low and slow" form of cooking, involving long periods (hours to days) of controlled low heat. Many of those same devotees disdain gas grills as incapable of this style of cooking – until, that is, they see ours in action. But then, it takes an exceptional grill to be an exception to their perception.

Want to know our secret?

Here’s the big secret that other grill makers don’t seem to get: hot air rises.

So we placed an air intake slot across the entire front of the grill – just above the removable full-width drip pans, in the same area as our burner valve controls. That assures a continuing source of cool air big enough to assure that our fires will never starve for oxygen.

And we placed a second full-width air slot across the back of the grill, cleverly positioned to open when our roll cover is closed, and close when it’s open.

That means open-cover cooking happens normally, with the heated airflow coming straight up through the cooking grate.

But when the cover closes, the magic of Roto Convection cooking happens, surrounding the food in a cyclonic blanket of heated air.

For folks who loved physics in school, here’s the nitty-gritty: The heated incoming air stream encounters the slanted inner surface of our roll cover, creating turbulence that allows only some of the air stream to escape out the rear exhaust vent. The rest of the airflow is directed back down into the burner area, where it gains more heat.

This continuously warmed blanket of circulating air surrounds the food to cook it more completely, more evenly and more predictably than any rotisserie spit.

How evenly?

You can bake pies, cakes and breads – confidently - with an Iron Works grill. That’s not something you’d want to dare with any other.

Maybe it’s time to have a look at all the ways you can cook  with an Iron Works grill. Or maybe you’d like to check out some of our recipes and grill lore