We love our Weber - an early model of the Performa. A while back we had this fancy indirect heating gas grill - but it just didn't provide much flavor for BBQing so we gave it away and bought the Weber over 10 years ago. It's been our regular fire ever since - IMHO nothing beats a hot charcoal fire for the best flavor.
On one of our morning walks last week, Chris Gulker started talking about his new Weber Performa BBQ and how he had cooked a pair of very tasty thick cut pork chops on it last weekend. Naturally, my ears perked up - pork chops are an old favorite but mostly pan fried with some sauerkraut, not BBQed.
Taking Chris' excellent results to heart, we tried our own version on the Weber tonight. The result was superb - just great - and simple. I was cooking two thick cut chops - about 1.7 lbs of meat that we had picked up at a local butcher yesterday (priced at $5.99-$6.29 a pound in our neighborhood).
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