Char-Broil M580 SS Quantum 4-Burner Infrared Gas Grill, Stainless Steel

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The Char-Broil Quantum SS M580 IR is so named because it features Char-Broil's patented and award winning Quantum Infrared cooking system, 580 square inches of primary cooking area, and a full stainless steel design. The Quantum Infrared cooking system completely eliminates flare up and its design allows for perhaps the greatest grilling versatility seen in years. Each burner has its own temperature gauge located above the control knob and working at grate level for a true reading of the heat about to sear you steak or whatever you may be grilling. The Quantum Infrared design also allows you to add wood chips directly on to the cooking grates for added flavor and no flare up. This four-burner grill is highly efficient due to the unique patented infrared grates and thus needs just three burners and 42,000 BTUs to get the job done. The SS M580 Quantum Infrared and its 580 square inches of primary cooking area, 200 square inches of secondary cooking area provide more than enough space for most any gathering and to make sure you don't come up short on fuel it also has a digital tank scale to let you know how much propane you have left. Just in case you are wrapping up your grilling after it is dark, the SS M580 Quantum also features halogen lights mounted in the lid to help you see your food. The new "Surefire" electronic ignition, flush mounted side burner, and a combination of stainless steel and painted steel appliance style cart construction, further separate this grill as a unique value to the marketplace. The SS M580 Quantum IR is also a Dual Fuel designed grill for easy conversion to Natural Gas with the purchase of the conversion kit on Amazon.com
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Technical Details

- Four primary burners, rated up to 42,000 BTUs to heat the award winning and super-efficient Quantum Infrared grates
- 13,000 BTU flush lid side burner
- Digital tank gauge with LED readout
- Two Halogen lights mounted inside the firebox
- Dual Fuel convertible to Natural Gas with the purchase of conversion kit
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 "Great if you live in the desert" 2009-08-27
By Chris F. Schroeder
Bought this grill about a year ago. We live in Florida. While the grill works flawlessly, the chrome parts quickly corroded within less than one year. If you live in a humid envirnment, stay away from this grill - replacement parts cost almost $200 and who knows how long those will last. If you live in a dry desert or keep the grill inside your garage, you should be OK.

 "Long assembly time, good looking grill" 2009-08-11
By Alfred D. Wallace (Monte Vista, Colorado)
I got this grill yesterday. As usual from Amazon the shipping and delivery was flawless. The grill arrived in a HUGE box and the delivery folks brought it right into the house and left it where I asked them to. A careful unpacking of the box took a smidge over half an hour since I prefer to ID the parts and categorize them as I go. Assembly instructions were clear and unambiguous with pretty decent pictures to guide you through. Two tips as you assemble the grill: make sure to bring the burner ignition wires down on the right side as you go to avoid having to partially disassemble to get them towards the end of the process; pull the tank level indicator wire up from the bottom when installing the casters to avoid having to lift the whole unit at the end to find it. These are small things that didn't adversely affect the over all assembly, just a couple pesky things left out of the instructions. Also make sure to lose no washers, lock washers etc. because you get the exact number needed. :D



This was a gift for a friend, so I'll have to wait to see how his grilling experience is. I do know that we put it on his porch and lit it up and he grilled some dinner that night and was thrilled with it.



My total assembly time was 3 hours and 5 minutes, but I am a bit meticulous about these things.


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Char-Broil M500 Quantum 3-Burner Infrared Gas Grill

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The Char Broil Quantum M500 IR is so named because it features Char Broil's patented and award winning Quantum Infrared cooking system. The Quantum Infrared cooking system completely eliminates flare up and its design allows for perhaps the greatest grilling versatility seen in years. Each burner has its own temperature gauge located above the control knob and working at grate level for a true reading of the heat about to sear you steak or whatever you may be grilling. The Quantum Infrared design also allows you to add wood chips directly on to the cooking grates for added flavor and no flare up. This three burner grill is highly efficient due to the unique patented infrared grates and thus needs just three burners and 31,000 BTUs to get the job done. Like the standard M500 grill from Char Broil, the Quantum Infrared has 500 sq. in. of primary cooking area, 280 sq. in. of secondary cooking area, new "Surefire" electronic ignition, and a combination of stainless steel and painted steel appliance style cart construction. The Quantum M500 IR is also a Dual Fuel designed grill for easy conversion to Natural Gas with the purchase of the conversion kit on Amazon.com
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Technical Details

- Three primary burners, rated up to 31,000 BTUs to heat the award winning and super-efficient Quantum Infrared grates
- 13,000 BTU flush lid side burner
- 500 square inches of primary cooking area and 280 square inch warming rack
- "Surefire" Electronic ignition
- Dual Fuel convertible to Natural Gas with the purchase of conversion kit
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 "I too am impressed with quantum cooking" 2009-09-11
By Robert A. Gold Jr. (DC Metro)
I'm not sure I buy all the physics they claim is behind this but I do speak highly of the results. I cooked hot dogs, turkey burgers, and bone-in chicken breasts. I was very impressed by the results for all three, especially the chicken. Hot dogs are a no brainer. The turkey burgers were a bit tricky because the soft meat could fall into the grills. The saving factor here is that the grill cooks things very quickly once it's warmed up. The surface of the burger on the bottom cooked before the burgers could really sag much into the grates. What really amazed me was the quality of the chicken breasts. I cooked 5 very different sized breasts at the same time. The outsides on all of them were brown and crispy, the insides were moist and cooked all the way through. I added bbq sauce in the last minutes of cooking. These were the best grilled chicken breasts I've ever cooked. I have no doubt I'll be able to repeat these results for all kinds of meat with a little practice.



One noteworthy item - the booklet in the box doesn't mention this but the website does - season the grates with vegetable oil before cooking for the first time. This will inhibit rusting and should make the meats stick less to the grates. It took me a while to find this tip on the website but make sure you find it and follow the directions, it's a must for these grills.



I give it four stars because the grates/emitters will definitely be harder to clean than a normal open grate. I will likely (I haven't done it yet) just remove the grates and scrape the emitter plates clean with a plastic (when the grill is cold obviously) or metal putty knife. The grates can clean themselves or I can just knock the big chunks off.



I've only had the grill for a couple of days so I can't say how well the materials will hold up over time. Regarding customer service, one of the small bumpers for the lid was broken when I got the grill. I used the website to report the problem and had a response and order for replacement bumpers within 3 hours of my request. Note I had already followed their registration process (easy too).

 "Horrible" 2009-09-10
By Nicole Pitcher
This Brand is HORRIBLE. I have bought 2 grills from the same company because they are supposingly one of the best. Well just to let you know, Im 2 for 2 on them catching on fire. I have put complaints into customer service and they haven't done anything. They say its user error. Well maybe, but I have a Weber and it doesn't catch on fire. I wouldn't by it.

 "Very good grill for the money" 2009-06-21
By David Bigl (Springfield, MA USA)
My girlfriend purchased this grill for me about 3 months ago and I have used it about 30 times mostly for steaks, chicken breasts, and hamburgers. It has decent size cooking area. I can cook 9 huge steaks at the same time. Unless you plan on having a lot of cookouts with more than 20 people there then it is plenty big enough (and even then it is adequate). It is very easy to regulate the temperature of the grill because of the thermometer at the grilling surface so once you find a temperature that cooks the food the way you like it, it is easy to duplicate the desired results with amazing consistency (when i grill steaks i heat up the grill to 650 degrees and throw the steaks on for 7 minutes on each side to get a good sear, then I turn the burners off completely until the temperature drops to 400, then I fire it up and put it on low and close the grill...it gives me a great sear on the outside and is extremely tender on the inside). I haven't had a single flare-up...even on the fattiest piece of meat drenched in olive oil. I only have two small complaints. Cleaning the grill is more difficult than with a conventional grill (but besides scraping off the grates i only clean it once a month so it's not a big deal. That causes it to be less efficient but I'm lazy after eating a big meal so as long as the food comes out ok then I'm happy). The only other complaint I have is that the stainless steel grates do get stained and they aren't very attractive looking after a few uses but I don't really mind that. As long as they're functional I'm happy. Overall I would highly recommend it and the only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because it's difficult to clean.

 "After first couple of uses, I am very impressed!" 2009-05-26
By B. Christensen (Santa Barbara, CA United States)
I have always been a wood fire BBQ kind of guy - I like meat cooked over a *real* flame, and even charcoal has always seemed to me like cheating (though I've been using a charcoal Weber kettle for 20 years). I never even considered a gas grill for myself for these reasons.



For my senior Mom & Dad, however, the task of lighting charcoal, etc was too much hassle, so this past weekend I went out shopping for a gas grill for them. After going back and forth between three different home centers and Costco, I settled on this unit as by far the best "bang for the buck" in terms of build quality, performance characteristics, and ease of use for under $500. I seriously considered going up to the Weber Genesis, but for 50% more, I just couldn't quite justify it. My requirement was good quality for under $500.



After about a one-hour erector set project putting it all together (not difficult, just time consuming), I fired it up and let it burn off for about 20 minutes. I was immediately impressed with how hot the cooking surfaces became (and how quickly). The nifty temp sensors at the grate level registered 700+ degrees!



After burn-off, I tried it out with what I have found to be one of the trickiest things to grill over open flame (gas or wood/charcoal): raw marinated chicken parts. To be done right, the chicken has to be crispy on the outside - not burned, and moist and completely cooked on the inside. With unevenly shaped and sized chicken parts, this can be devilishly tricky.



But with this grill, I found I was able to keep the left most burner at full throttle, and the two right burners at low settings and get creative. This allowed me to beautifully sear the skin using the left side of the grill, then finish cooking on the right side (with the BBQ closed). The results were amazing.



One of my favorite things about this grill turned out to be that it is really easy to add wood chips for smoke flavor. Because there is a perforated metal "screen" (the infrared reflector) under the food, it catches the wood chips and holds them at a perfect smoking temperature where they will smolder but not flare up.



Speaking of flare-ups, this grill did NOT exhibit flare-ups at all. Even with fatty pieces of chicken that had been marinated in an olive oil mixture, there was almost no burning or smoking, even on the "searing" side of the hot grill.



When turned down low, I also found the evenness of the heating surface to be impressively consistent, and the large stainless "grill" surface not only made great marks on the food, but also did not stick as badly as most coated steel or iron grill surfaces do.



On the con side, I can imagine that the perforated screen is going to require some periodic maintenance to keep it clean. The good news is that it comes out in three easy-to-handle sections shaped like little trays, each holding a section of grill. You pull the "tray" up and out, then lift the grill surface out of the tray making both very easy to clean.



One final note - I also prepared a boneless leg of lamb on the grill using a "generic" rotisserie (Grill-Pro brand). it *barely* fit between the closed lid and the grill surface, but again, the infrared cooking system worked beautifully. I warmed it up at full throttle for about 5-10 minutes before mounting the marinated lamb roast, then allowed it to sear beautifully for about 15 minutes. Then I turned the burners all down to their lowest settings, threw on a thumb-sized stick of oak from one of our trees, and dropped the lid.



An hour and a half later, we enjoyed one of the best lamb roasts I have ever had!



Highly recommended, especially if you can get it for the price I paid (which was about $[...] less than Amazon's currently listed price)



Pros:

*Great heat output for searing

*Even distribution of heat for predictable results

*Good low-temp performance

*Easy to use wood chips for flavor

*Good build quality in the hood and firebox



Cons:

*Bottom 1/2 of construction is a bit flimsy, but better than many at this price point

*Requires pre-heating for about 10 minutes for best results

*Periodic clean-up probably required for optimum performance

 "A Better Way to Cook" 2009-04-26
By L. Rosencrantz (USA)
The big advantages of this grill are even heating and flavor. Even low fat content hamburgers came out juicy and did not shrink. The manufacturer claims that it uses 30% less fuel and it does cook faster than open flame barbeques, but there is a full power 10-15 minute warm up and then another high heat period after you finish to burn off cooking residue so total gas use may actually be more than claimed.



It does not flare up but the screens underneath the grills need to be cleaned or the heat output will drop off. This grill requires more maintenance each time than an open flame unit but it is worth it. Our previous Brinkman BBQ completely rusted out (burners, supports, firebox) after five years but we didn't take very good care of it



A couple of neat features are that you can rotisserie without a special burner, you can add wood chips without a smoker box and there are separate thermometers at grill height for each burner. This latter feature makes temperature control especially easy and accurate at the cooking surface.



All in all very pleased with this grill. Time will tell just how durable it will be, but the screens should protect the firebox and burners better than an open flame BBQ. Burners are lifetime warranty.


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Char-Broil 463271309 M580 Quantum 4-Burner Infrared Gas Grill

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The Char-Broil Quantum M580 IR is so named because it features Char-Broil's patented and award winning Quantum Infrared cooking system and 580 square inches of primary cooking area. The Quantum Infrared cooking system completely eliminates flare up and its design allows for perhaps the greatest grilling versatility seen in years. Each burner has its own temperature gauge located above the control knob and working at grate level for a true reading of the heat about to sear you steak or whatever you may be grilling. The Quantum Infrared design also allows you to add wood chips directly on to the cooking grates for added flavor and no flare up. This four-burner grill is highly efficient due to the unique patented infrared grates and thus needs just three burners and 42,000 BTUs to get the job done. The M580 Quantum Infrared and its 580 square inches of primary cooking area, 200 square inches of secondary cooking area provide more than enough space for most any gathering. The new "Surefire" electronic ignition, flush mounted side burner, and a combination of stainless steel and painted steel appliance style cart construction, further separate this grill as a unique value to the marketplace. The Quantum M500 IR is also a Dual Fuel designed grill for easy conversion to Natural Gas with the purchase of the conversion kit on Amazon.com
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- 42,000-BTU 4-burner gas grill with 13,000-BTU side burner
- Surefire electronic ignition; 780-square-inch total cooking space
- Award-winning Quantum Infrared grates eliminate flare-ups
- Grate-level temperature gauges above each burner; assembly required
- Measures 59-1/4 by 22 by 46 inches
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 "horrible" 2009-09-10
By Nicole Pitcher
This Brand is HORRIBLE. I have bought 2 grills from the same company because they are supposingly one of the best. Well just to let you know, Im 2 for 2 on them catching on fire. I have put complaints into customer service and they haven't done anything. They say its user error. Well maybe, but I have a Weber and it doesn't catch on fire. I wouldn't by it.

 "BEWARE Poor CharBroil warranties" 2009-08-05
By Rediranch (Colorado Springs, CO USA)
We purchased this grill, and within a month the 'electric ignitor' was shot. OK, we said, it's under warranty, we'll just call and get a new one.



Even though only 30 days old, they wanted to charge me $10 shipping to send me the new part!



I asked them how much it would cost them to ship then entire grill back to them after I took it back to Lowes where I bought it, and bought another brand.



After a minute on hold, they decided it would be cheaper to ship me the new part free of charge, but any other parts would cost me shipping. Told them that if it was w/in the 90 day Lowes return policy, I wouldnt bother calling them.

 "DO NOT BUY THIS GRILL!" 2009-06-23
By Tony (Feeding Hills, MA)
While this review is correct in stating the evenness of cooking achieved by using this grill, I caution you NOT to buy it due to the cheap materials. I have had mine 1 Year and have already had to replace the cooking grates three times. They just continue to rust. I clean it after each use, leave it uncovered during periods of good weather (as the Charbroil folks have suggested to help mitigate the issue of humidity), use the cleaning brush that is supposedly designed specifically for this grill, but nothing works. This is an extremely high maintenance grill - and I'm someone who takes care of his things. I do not expect to neglect the grill. I recognize there is some basic maintenance work required to keep equipment in tip-top shape. However, the maintenance needs of this grill far exceed that. If you're like me and want to be able to enjoy your grill while performing basic routine maintenance, this grill is not for you. Its needs far exceed routine. Also, the grates are only guaranteed for one year - shame on me, I missed that fact when I bought it. But what does that tell you? Charbroil's expectation of the life span of the most important part of the grill is only one year? I had a Weber with a grate guarantee of 10 years. It's back to Weber for me after making this one very bad mistake. Do yourself a favor and DO NOT BUY THIS GRILL!.

 "After One Year" 2009-06-05
By Shopper (Irvine, CA)
Well, I have owned the four burner Quantum for one year now. I purchased it at Lowes for $450.00 It's held up well, however, some shock adjustment was necessary, especially after the first few rains that it survived. It's kept covered, so I was in shock to see that the grates completely rusted after about a month on non-use and a few rain storms. However, the rust was only superficial, and cleaned off easily. All of the other exterior stainless steel does indeed stain if not kept relatively clean. Also, keep in mind that the tops of the side work tables and the cabinet base are not stainless steel, just painted with silver paint. While those surfaces have not rusted, any grease splatter left on the paint will permanently stain it. The thermometer on the hood was immediately rendered mostly useless by overnight dew after one nice summer night that the grill was not covered up. It still registers the last 1/3rd of the scale, but it's stuck 2/3rds of the way. Much of the silkscreened black printing, especially the safety instructions, on the bullnose of the grill have started to wipe off. There is some slight pitting of the chrome handle mounts on the lid, but no actual rust.



Regarding the performance. I almost NEVER clean the grates. It performs well even with stuff on the perforated infrared panel. I normally just preheat the grill for about 15 to 20 minutes, and most of what ever was previously there turns to ash. It still sears steaks beautifully after one year.



I made sure to contact Char-Broil within the warranty period to get replacement parts for ALL of the grates, the thermometer, and the lid handle. I should have also asked for a bullnose with readable silkscreening. So far the gill has performed very well. With regular cleaning and maintenance, the original grates will probably not rust through if they are regularly used. If the grill is not regularly used, the grates, and firebox will quickly rust away, probably within three to four years. However, with replacement parts, this grill should be serviceable for at least five to seven years. And, it will probably look reasonably good after that time.



It's not a "high-end" multi thousand dollar Stainless Steel grill that will become a family heirloom. For the $450 that I paid, including the in-warranty replacement parts received, it should last a reasonable amount of time, while still having the clean appearance of a Stainless Steel grill! But most importantly, it really does perform just as well as the multi thousand dollar grills. I have used Viking, DCS, Dynasty, and Ducane grills and this Char-Broil can do anything they can, (but it reaches searing temperature much faster and with better results)!

 "Beware" 2009-05-07
By Utahn (Utah)
Beware. The warranty does not cover cosmetic flaws to their stainess grills. Even if you use their own products to clean it. Cosmetic stains look horrible.






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