Vision Kamado Grill

This video reviews the Vision Ceramic grill from Costco, retailing for $499.

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• Vision
• Kamado
• Grill

[ross939]

Thanks for the complement, yeah, I agree, the shock absorber is a good addition. While I'm careful putting the lid down, many people assume that the lid is spring loaded like the hatchback of a car. Not the case. The Green Egg is a nice grill, but I think it's very overpriced.

[ross939]

To my knowledge, the standard Green Egg Plate Setter would probably not work right, as the Green egg has the fire box, which sets lower than the firebox of the vision, then it has the firebox ring, which is removable, and brings the firebox up to about cooking level. On the BGEgg, you remove the firebox ring and place the platesetter on the firebox, which would be lower and closer to the coals. I just use the double cooking rack for indirect, foiling the lower rack and cooking on the top rack.

[ross939]

Wow, $399 in Vancouver, that would be a steal. I believe I read where they were selling for 559 at most Canadian Costco stores? They were 499 here, I was at santa rosa costco today and they had none. I would jump on that. They may decide to ship them out to stores that they know they can move them. Let us know if you get one, that price would make it less than the Weber Performer, which is a good kettle grill, but not near as good as a kamado grill.

[Kryton619]

@ross939 I picked one up tonight for $549 in Ontario. They won't price match out of Province....I tried. :-) Thanks Ross939.....I purchased based on your video. Was looking at the Saffire Grill but in the end figured I could purchase a Vision and chances are the food is going to taste the same coming from either grill.

[ross939]

Hey, Kryton, I agree, as Alton Brown once demonstrated on his show on the Food Network, you can actually take two large clay pots, use one as a base and one as a lid, and get basically the same results as a top of the line BGEgg. Plus, you are getting the lifetime warranty from buying at Costco. I, like others on line, opted to add a bead of high heat silicon around the bottom vent, as it seemed that there was a small amount of air leakage (only an issue for long low temp cooks).

[ross939]

They were OK, but a bit dry. My second attempt, I cooked them for about 2hrs at 250, on the top rack, and foiled the bottom rack to act as a heat shield. Then I wrapped them in foil, with a little apple juice and bbq sauce. They continued cooking for another 2 hrs in the foil. I let them finish out of the foil and on the rack for about 20 min. They were real good, very moist

[hippyurban]

Good review. Damn those steaks look good! You are right the egg does not have the shock absorber - nice feature.  A few nice features there that the egg could use.

[darockk]

im surprised the steaks can cook so fast, isnt the coals like 12 inches below the cooking grate? where a weber has it like 4 inches below the grate.

[Kryton619]

Hey Ross.....What have you found works best for indirect cooking? Does a standard BGE large platesetter fit....or were you able to fashion something else?

[ProFoodAddict]

I think our competition team will be using at least 1 of them or even 2 if I decide to get one. At $399 I honestly can't see why I wouldn't lol. I really thought they'd price drop only by $100 but $150 less is fantastic. We'd have to pick it up in the next few days as the comp is next weekend.

[ProFoodAddict]

Ross, Costco in Vancouver just price dropped them to $399!!! Since the price drop 5 days ago, they've only sold 2 at our local store. No one knows what they are or what they are capable of cooking.