What is a Weber Flavorizer Bar?

With the coming of summer means the return of everyone's favorite backyard hobby: grilling. Everyone loves getting their grill on, and Weber grills have long been the king of the cookout, but do you know exactly what's going on in your Weber grill when you fire it up? There are a few key components that make Weber grills so impressive, one of which is the Flavorizer Bar. Read on to find out about what a Flavorizer Bar is and how it helps improve your grilling experience.

What is a Weber Flavorizer Bar?

A Flavorizer Bar sits above the burners on many Weber grills, usually those in the Weber Spirit, Weber Genesis, and Weber Summit lines. They look like long, triangular metal bars and they're placed above the burners to protect them from anything that may drip down from the grill grates.

What Do Weber Grill Flavorizer Bars Do?

Now you know what they look like, but you still may be asking, “What do they actually do for my grill?” The answer is threefold:

Protect Food from Grease Flare-Ups

One important thing they do is protect your food from grease flare-ups. When grease drips down off of your food, it will typically fall right into the burners. This can cause a miniature grease fire that may potentially overcook or generally mess with your control over cooking the food. With the Flavorizer Bar in the way, the grease won't drip down into the burners. Instead, the angled shape of the bar will direct it away from your burners into a drip tray instead.

Protect the Burners from Clogs

After enough uses of a grill without a Flavorizer Bar, food debris and grease can build up on the burners, leading to burner hole clogs and uneven heating. Since the Flavorizer Bar prevents anything from falling into your burners, they help ensure that your burners won't get clogged up, no matter how often you use your grill.

Add Flavor

On top of all of these helpful protective measures, the Flavorizer Bars for a Weber grill also live up to their name in that they add flavor to your grilled food. Due to their position above the burners, these bars are designed to heat up to high temperatures as you grill. Once they reach a certain temperature, any grease that falls onto them will be vaporized and circulate back up to the food above, infusing that flavor right back into all of your grilled food.

The Weber Flavorizer Bar provides a variety of benefits that make it even easier, and tastier, to use your Weber grill. We hope this blog has helped you see the many conveniences of having a grill with a Flavorizer Bar. Have fun grilling!