I know the blackstone grill or whatever they are called are a bit of a fad. Brother had one. Seemed ok, but nothing game changing.

I have a round charbroil bbq we have had for 30 years. Still works and use regularly even in the winter.
Had a package of Hemplers bacon (good btw).
figured I would cook the whole package. But rather than doing in the house got one of my cast iron skillets out. Fired up the bbq and cooked the bacon outside in the cast iron skillet on the bbq. My skillet is not huge so I cut the bacon in half and cooked about 3 or four pieces (full) at a time. worked great. drained grease out after every batch.

So that is my homemade blackstone story.

And yes I know some of you bake in the oven, I don't.

The grate on my 22” Weber Kettle has a center that comes out and I have a Lodge cast iron pan that fits in there nicely. It’s good for fish, veggies, searing steaks, etc., but sometimes you just need more space. That’s where the Camp Chef 900 comes in:



We had a lot of people up this summer and I cooked 30 pounds of bacon during the two months we were there.

I recently bought a semi-portable Blackstone (the one with legs that will fold down for transport should you want to). It's on the smaller side, but since it's just me, it's plenty big (22" x 16"). It was a decent price and I have friends that raved about them so I figured I'd give it a whirl. I'm sold. It's great for searing things so you don't make a mess of your kitchen and once goodly seasoned it's slicker than owl shit. I do need to level it a bit better though, as my over easy eggs tend to glide down into one corner.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
the Camp Chef 900

Holy smokes, are you sure that's not a Binford 6100?

Very Nice set up Trapper

ORC’s cast iron pan on the grill is great in a pinch. Keeps the splatter and smoke out of the kitchen. Taking it one step further, there are companies that sell griddles that replace the grates on a gas grill. The only issue is grease management which is a benefit of a purpose made griddle.

I went big because I knew we were going to have a bunch of people this year; fifteen at one point. My wife loved it because the kitchen and her pans stayed clean.

We have, or had, a member who often posted cooking using cast iron pans on charcoal grills, IIRC usually breakfast. I really liked his posts of cooking in that way.

Haven't seen him post in awhile. IIRC his CUT was I fix tanks, something like that.
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I dunno, the wife bakes bacon in the kitchen stove. I LOVE the smell.

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Originally posted by trapper189:
.... but sometimes you just need more space. That’s where the Camp Chef 900 comes in:



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Save some burners for the rest of us bro.

Don't know why you call the Blackstone grill a fad. I've had mine for several years now and use it all the time to cook just about anything. It really shines in cooking breakfast though.

I use a Lodge Griddle on my Weber. Poor (aka cheap) man's Blackstone.

I went with a Camp Chef Camp Stove. It's much more than a griddle. I can take the griddles off and put on their pizza oven or their grill box accessories or cast iron pans or pots for boiling water for sweet corn. I also like that it takes one 24" griddle and one 12" griddle to cover the three burners. When doing breakfast I cook the eggs on the smaller griddle to keep them from getting all nasty looking by getting meat grease mixed in with them. I know, the meat grease adds flavor but I like my eggs to be nice and yellow.

Mine is about ten years old and has cooked one hell of a lot of food. Eyeing a new one. I've done what the op has done as well and it works fine just a bit harder to control the heat.

Have a cast iron plate that goes on the Big Red Egg, it covers half the grill grate, so I cook meat on the open grill and then sear on the cast iron. Bacon drips too much grease and causes flare ups, so for that reason Bacon goes on the smoker.

Grease drips down on the slanted tray and runs to the external drip bucket, clean up is easy and bacon isn't greasy...

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Originally posted by SPWAMike0317:
I use a Lodge Griddle on my Weber. Poor (aka cheap) man's Blackstone.

I have the same one. works great