If you're looking for a better way to cook your food which doesn't result in scorches or dried out meat, then infrared grilling might be the technology for you. Instead of using convection cooking like traditional grills, infrared grilling relies on surface heat to cook your meat, resulting in a better over all cooking experience.
Regular grills tend to burn food because they're hard to regulate. Charcoal grills create hot spots because charcoal burns unevenly by design, which is why its impossible to leave a charcoal grill alone for even a few seconds. Even propane grills suffer from this problem, because they rely on convection as a means to cook, instead of heating the food directly. Infrared grills avoid this problem because they use a stainless steel burner to super heat the food and cook it in half the time, since the food is cooked directly on the heated surface.
In addition to cooking food directly, infrared grills typically cook food faster, since they transfer their heat to the grill. The temperature inside an infrared grill reaches much higher plateaus, meaning your food is cooked faster, which results in a much juicier steak or burger. Aside from tastier food cooked on infrared grills, these grills also have a better cooking surface, since the burner distributes heat evenly, there will be no hot spots which can burn food.
Commercial restaurants have been using infrared grilling technology for years now, but recent developments in the grilling industry have made the technology available to consumers to get the best steaks possible in the comfort of their own home.
Infrared grills may cost more than traditional grills, but the price is definitely worth it for the grill enthusiast who loves to cook out. With meats cooking much faster and more tender and juicy than charcoal grills, you'll instantly see what has made infrared grills so popular in restaurants across the country.