The Grill of My Dreams

Oh Boy, the Grill.

We have been needing a new grill for some time now. Our last one was retired a year before last and we didn’t bother getting one last year1

When it comes to grills and barbecuing in general we’re generally not that concered about what grill we buy and we usually just get the $100 wonder and after 3 years max, it rusts out and we rinse, lather and repeat.

Trouble is, these grills are no longer $100. In fact, they are close to double that and we didn’t want to spend that much on a grill that would expire so soon.

So grill shopping we go..

The Dream

This is the grill BW would like:

Ha. Ha. Ha. 3 grand for a grill. We have a child to send to college. Heck a pizza today costs $442 so there’s no budget for this at all whatsoever.

The Reality

This is what we can afford:

As you can see there’s a bit of a stretch between the two budgets.

As the family problem solver for things like this it was up to me  to find a grill that would suit us and be relatively affordable. So I fired up Amazon and look what I found:

It was priced at a too good to be true price of $58.00. shipped.

I placed the order and waited. And waited. And Waited, and…well you get the idea. It was too good to be true..

The $58.00 grill never showed up. It showed as being shipped via some Chinese tracking number and that’s the last I saw of it.  So I called Amazon and got a refund.

This leaves us back to square one again. No grill and grilling season almost here. The pressure, the stress, the sleepless nights. It was horrible. I had to do something!

Then one night while I was sitting down and BW was loading the dishwasher3 she said she wanted a red one and I could spend about $400.00

Guys: If your wife says she wants to spend more than usual on something like a grill, TV, car, etc. Do not reply to her. Do not argue. Do not question. Just pick up your phone and buy it before she changes her mind.

There was one condition: she wanted a red one. Yes, red.

Thank you for reading Tidy Husband! Please help spread the word. I can’t make this stuff up.

Okay. Red it is:

Home Depot dropped off this 104 pounds of grill at the end of the driveway and I managed to push the box into the garage for the night and then I had the grand time of assembling a grill in the 80 degree sunshine.

It took me 2.5 hours to assemble. Also, these were extra:

That’s okay, right? I sure hope so.

Of course because we haven’t had a grill for 2 years, BW asked me about the status of the propane tank in the shed. I had no idea. Of course the tank was empty so even though I had assembled the grill there was no propane to  make the fire happen. Also it was dinnertime and the child was hungry and cranky.

Off to the corner store I go for a quick tank exchange and we were golden. So was the chicken we had for dinner. The kiddo had mac and cheese because she wasn’t going to make it waiting until I finished building the thing that was going to make our dinner.

This thing is pretty nice. It fires right up and seems to be more an even temperature. Also, when you cook hamburgers with this one the grease doesn’t pool at the bottom and catch fire so you have to have the fire department on standby to cook a burger.

Also, I still have arm hair.

We even went all out and bought a seventeen dollar grill cover for this so maybe, just maybe this will last a little longer than 3 seasons we’ve been used to with the cheaper ones.

I suppose that there’s a chance the $58 grill will show up but it’s highly doubtful.

Stay tuned..