"Paul" > wrote in message
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> Yes, good question. I got 575 deg F from the hood mounted thermometer,
> which takes the temperature in the headspace, not at the grill surface. I
> sent an e-mail to Weber engineering this morning, asking what they
> understand to be the maximum temp at both lid thermometer and at grill
> surface. Interested to see what they say. When I baked out my grill for
> the first time, with all four burners on high, I got a reading of 575 up
in
> the lid, after about 575.

OIther than the faster heatup and the ability to not worry about having the
lid up after preheating, I have not found any advantage to the much higher
temps that I'm getting( a similar size grill but with 60Kbtus of input.)
600 at the cast iron grate / 525 in the lid and the Jenn Air cooked steaks
as well if not better than it did with 1000 grate/800 lid. I do like the
faster preheat of 5-7min though.

-CAL