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two major barbecue makers have decided to come out with two smart grills weber and Charbroil we have them right here and we thought what better way to test them out than to have a cookout let's check it out right now I'm using the $800 Charbroil smart chef tru-infrared this is a gas grill with three main burners plus a side burner for sauces and other hot dishes there are two ports to attach temperature probes inside is a warming rack and removable cast iron grates that are porcelain enameled you also get pretty good build quality with a chassis made of steel and a sturdy metal handle so the Charbroil comes with an app that connects via Wi-Fi and that lets you see the food that you're cooking and the temperatures that your meat is actually at and from there you can also see the temperature inside the grill you can also see whether the burners are on or off you can also set up multiple probes and see timers for food that you're cooking and get alerts for when your food is done the char-broil did a pretty good job cooking the food that we gave it it did very well with burgers that came out nice and juicy they didn't have a lot of char on them which is something that's we prefer but it definitely had a lot of flavor and was very good the one thing I don't like about the char-broil is it creates a lot of smoke and a lot of grease things tend to splatter outside of the hood you have to clean it up often and you just get a lot of mess that you have to deal with and that's kind of an and over here we have the $850 Weber Genesis - it has three propane gas burners but no side burner but it feels incredibly well built the parts are heavy solid almost industrial there's more space in situ and the warming rack is adjustable unlike the Charbroil the Weber has smart functions - it connects to its own whoever app keep in mind Weber smart functions cost extra you have to pay an additional $100 to get the iGrow 3 accessory as far as cooking goes the Weber is a bit of a race car and burns really hot if you want it and it also goes really low if you need it though you have to play with it to get it just right so as far as app control I definitely like the Weber better because it's more responsive I get to see exactly what the temperature is there's no lag there's no delay the char-broil has a little bit of a delay when you open the app to see what temperature the grille of that so all in all after you factor in the cooking performance smart capabilities build quality better by is the Charbroil but the Weber is definitely a premium product that certainly be happy with just spend a little more money