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The grids are a distinctive sign of the American dinner and short -order cuisine, and also the heroes of all street tacos. And we tested the ability of each plate to create the most distinctive foods of the flat drop.

On the seven grid that I tested for this guide, I did dozens of Smashburgers, Tacos, Fajitas, pancake, bacon stripes and eggs. I also cut the skin fish, the burned pork ribs and I tested the ability of each plate to cook delicate vegetables as asparagus at lower temperatures while the meat cooked at higher temperatures on a different burner.

For Smashburgers, this has led to cooking at the highest temperatures that each plate could manage: stimulate the ability of each plate to quickly caramelize the meat destroyed on the plate and then release the meat in a spatula to turn over. Pancake. Arranged through the plate, there were a proof of the uniformity of the grid through the cooking surface. The thicker meat slabs, like a Prok blow, tested the ability of the plate to retain the temperature during the burning.

But we also had a lot of familiar with each plate using an infrared thermometer: the control temperature in different points along the surface of the grill while heating at high or low temperatures. We also ran the plates against each other, checking how long it took each plate to heat the 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Even if you keep in mind that faster is not always better: the plates that heat up faster are sometimes less stable or not. Our most voted choice, the 3 -zone Traeger Flatrock, took 10 minutes to reach 500 degrees. But he made it evenly through the surface of the plate.

I assembled each plate myself, both to familiarize yourself with the amount of work that each customer will face, but also to go down to the sharpness of how every device is put together: you really know a grid, while you spend an hour to screw every part together.

And above all, I put the work of cleaning, seasoning and reseasing of each plate over time, knowing its points and hot points, how quickly it cools and how quickly it rises: using the amount of effort requires from each plate and the degree in which this effort is rewarded.