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TEC®'s Ultimate Outdoor Island

You've made the choice to move up to a high-performance TEC 100% infrared gas grill. Now you can customize your new grill and surround it with style and versatility. TEC's new hand-crafted Ultimate Outdoor Island is a complete outdoor entertainment center.

TEC Sterling® III Gas Grill

Sterling® III is the ultimate in outdoor cooking performance and style. It offers plenty of cooking space, an attractive yet rugged stainless steel body and a functional cabinet base. No other grill entertains quite like this.

TEC® Sterling® II Gas Grill

Sterling® II is the perfect solution for outdoor entertaining. The solid stainless steel construction gives you a grill that looks great and acts rugged.

The colorful TEC® Infrared grill.

Research shows Patio II buyers are extremely satisfied. No wonder. The Patio II features our classic Infrared Cooking System in a handsome two-burner model. It has everything most families need, and comes in four handsome colors.

The convenient Pilot Light Ignition System ensures hassle-free startup. And we have mounting options that let you place a Patio II on your deck, patio or lawn nearly anywhere that you choose to enjoy great food.

FEATURES:

  • 374-square-inch primary cooking surface, 173-square-inch warming rack, 547-square-inch total cooking area
  • Two TEC Infra-red burners totaling 30,000 ports and 37,000 BTU/hour
  • Double-lined, 18-gauge stainless steel hood
  • Stainless steel warming rack and drip tray
  • LP or Natural gas
  • Available in your choice of: black, scarlet, forest green or midnight blue. We use aerospace-grade polyurethane coatings and a corrosion-resistant galvanneal metal

How it works

Using the science of radiant energy to prepare the best-tasting food.

Although highly familiar to us, the concept of Infra-red radiant energy still mystifies many people. First, it's not nuclear radiation. While it works a little like a microwave, it need not be electric. It works like the sun.

The fact is, Infra-red radiant energy is among our most widely experienced sources of energy. In scientific terms, Infra-red is a form of electromagnetic energy found in the same spectrum that includes visible light, radio waves and microwaves. It can be generated with electricity, gas, wood and by other means—including the burning of calories by the human body. Let's explore two very familiar examples of infra-red: warmth of the sun and the intense cooking capacity of glowing charcoal.

Glowing charcoal produces this same molecular activity in food. The glowing coals radiate infra-red energy, which cooks food with very little drying effect. And as the juices that do escape the food drop onto the coals, they are vaporized into smoke, which rises back up to the food, giving it that great outdoor grilled taste.

When we invented the infra-red gas grill, we found a better way to do what charcoal does in cooking. We generate infra-red radiant energy using a ceramic burner with thousands of evenly distributed flame ports. Energy from these flames is absorbed by the ceramic, which then glows and cooks the same way charcoal does.

There are crucial differences between TEC® Infra-red Grills and charcoal grills: First, TEC Grills reach full cooking capacity in about five minutes. Charcoal takes about a half-hour. Second, TEC Infra-red Grills distribute heat with absolute uniformity and they do it the same way every time! (You know how hard it is to regulate heat from charcoal). Third, TEC Infra-red Grills burn very cleanly and don't add dust to food the way charcoal does. And there's no ash to clean up and throw away later!

Every day the earth is warmed by radiant energy from the sun. The sun also generates harmful ultraviolet rays, but they are yet another form of electromagnetic energy they are not infra-red.

Infra-red radiant energy is transferred directly from its source to the object being heated. The sun's infra-red energy radiates through the cold vacuum of space and penetrates our skin. Electrons in the skin's atoms begin to move very fast, creating friction, which generates heat and causes us to feel warmth.

TEC Infra-Red not only makes food taste better, it's more convenient and versatile.

For moist, tender, delicious grilled food, use a TEC.
TEC® Grills use infra-red technology to provide that delicious outdoor-grilled flavor yet allow foods to remain moist and tender. We build our grills to the highest quality standards and use the very best materials in order to deliver years of dependable service. TEC Grills can cook as fast or as slow as you like. Easy to use and easy to clean, TEC grills are so convenient and versatile you'll find that you cook out much more often.

Unique ceramic burners give precise control over a wide range of temperatures and near-perfect heat distribution.
All TEC Grills (except Cherokee Electric) feature patented 15,000-port ceramic burners. Thousands of tiny flames bring these burners to a glow quickly. Then, like glowing charcoal, TEC burners radiate infra-red energy, but with more precise temperature control and more even heat distribution. Unlike charcoal, our grills need no petroleum’s to ignite. Removable drip trays make cleanup easy. And since they use radiant energy rather than hot air, freezing outdoor temperatures have no effect on these grills. They perform perfectly, from Alaska to Florida.

The TEC Classic Ceramic Infra-red Cooking System offers some tasty advantages.
The Cherokee Gas, Patio II, Sterling II and Sterling III feature this popular system. It cooks with about 60% infra-red radiant energy and 40% hot air from burner combustion (as do charcoal grills). About half the escaping juices are captured in patented, channeled grids and are vaporized into smoke. The other half fall onto the ceramic burners, and are instantly vaporized. The resulting grilled taste surpasses that created by most restaurants unless, of course, they use TEC's commercial infra-red grills (as many fine restaurants do).

Contrast TEC Infra-red Cooking Systems with conventional grills, which cook mainly with hot air. In order to cook, hot air must first dry away the layer of water and air molecules surrounding food. As this boundary layer is dried away, moisture within wicks out.

The effects of hot-air cooking are seen when a chicken breast is cooked on conventional gas grills. By the time the breast is sufficiently cooked, it's tough and dry. But infra-red radiant energy created by TEC's Cooking Systems passes through the boundary layer, generating heat within and cooking without drying. Chicken breasts remain tender, juicy and flavorful like a different food!

TEC's Classic Infra-red System is vastly superior to conventional grills in terms of heat-up time (five minutes, compared to 20 to 30 minutes), maximum cooking speed (foods that cook in 20 minutes or less on a conventional grill will take about half that time to cook on a TEC), heat distribution (there are no "hot or cool spots"), retention of moisture in foods, and outdoor, grilled taste.

The TEC Radiant Glass Infra-red Cooking System is the most technologically advanced form of grilling today.
TEC's newest line of grills, the Sterling G-2000, 3000 and 4000, as well as the value-engineered RadiantWave and Cherokee Electric Portable, all use our newly patented Radiant Glass Infra-red Cooking System. This system uses a tempered glass panel between the heat source and the cooking surface to eliminate the passage of hot air to food. These grills cook with almost 100% infra-red radiant energy. So even well-done steaks remain tender and juicy!

Our new Glass Infra-red System boosts fuel efficiency, improves heat distribution and reduces flare-ups. In addition, the glass completely shields the burner from wind and water. Another advantage of the Glass System is that it permits incredibly slow cooking. (We've melted butter in a paper plate on a low fire—without burning the plate!). This makes slow-roasting foods easier to do than on any other outdoor cooking device we've ever seen!

 

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