When we BBQ, we love cooking with flat plates with open lid cooking and fast. The baby Q we had either a half grindle plate which actually took up a bit over half width which made the flat plate not quite big enough and then the spare open grill part too small, or you go for the breakfast plate, which was too small for anything for a family. We ended up getting a full flat plate by campaquip, which was better but the bbq itself sill lacked heat for open lid cooking and we found it was generally slow to cook even with the lid down. Warm up time was also excessive. This is what makes the webers so good for roasting I guess. We are no roasters so it was not appealing to us. I would also look at the ziggy BBQ over the weber based on BTU as well.
Have a look at the BTU output of the aussie sizzler compared to the baby Q. Its about 20,000BTU compared to just under 9000BTU. that to me says it all. The flat plate on the sizzler also has a fat draining spout that puts it straight into the drip tray instead of all through the bbq base.
The aussie sizzler also packs enough heat and has an optional mesh insert to be able to use it as a stove for saucepans or kettles and act as an out side kitchen if required as well as a conventional BBQ.
Just my 2 cents
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Have a look at the BTU output of the aussie sizzler compared to the baby Q. Its about 20,000BTU compared to just under 9000BTU. that to me says it all. The flat plate on the sizzler also has a fat draining spout that puts it straight into the drip tray instead of all through the bbq base.
The aussie sizzler also packs enough heat and has an optional mesh insert to be able to use it as a stove for saucepans or kettles and act as an out side kitchen if required as well as a conventional BBQ.
Just my 2 cents
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