TEC Infra-Red Cherokee FR Portable Gas Grill

Take the World’s Best Gas Grill on Your Next Adventure. The TEC Cherokee is small and light enough to travel with you anywhere-on your next hunting or fishing trip, picnicking at the beach or tailgating with your family at the game. Now you can enjoy the same state-of-the-art infrared technology found in our full size residential and commercial grills in this high performance portable that provides one half the grilling surface of our two burner models. This compact portable gas grill makes TEC's super moist, charbroil taste more affordable than ever! And because it cooks with the speed of infrared energy and distributes heat evenly across the grilling surface, you’ll find that the Cherokee can cook more food than traditional convection style grills two to three times its size.

The Cherokee is fueled with a 16.4 oz. disposable LP gas cylinder making it ideal for patio and balcony use in attached living areas where large gas tanks and charcoal are prohibited. However, the Cherokee can also be used with a 20 lb. LP gas tank (regulator sold separately) or converted to Natural Gas with a TEC Natural Gas conversion kit.

Technological Benefits of the Cherokee FR

100% Infrared Grilling - TEC's original ceramic infrared technology, introduced in the 1980's, was a great improvement over traditional convection style grilling. Convective grills cook food with 100% hot air, and hot air dries out food. But TEC's ceramic infrared burners cooked with 35% infrared heat and 65% hot air so food retained more of its natural juices. All other infrared grills today use these ceramic burners but TEC's new patented grilling system cooks with 100% infrared energy. These grills totally eliminate the hot air associated with gas grilling, so food retains the maximum amount of moisture. As a result, moisture loss and food shrinkage are reduced by up to 35% - even well done meats remain tender and juicy.

Uniform Distribution of Heat - No Hot or Cold Spots - All other grills sold today, whether they are infrared or not, have hot and/or cold spots across the cooking surface. This is because the burners in these grills cannot distribute the heat that they generate evenly. But there are no hot or cold spots on the new TEC grills. Our patented all stainless burners were designed (with specially configured apertures) to distribute heat evenly across the cooking grates. So you can cover the entire grilling surface with steak, chicken or hamburgers, and each piece will cook exactly the same in the same amount of time.

Enhanced Charbroil Flavor - An important part of TEC's patented infrared technology is the radiant glass panels located between the burner and the cooking grids. These panels, like the glass designed for residential stovetops, are developed to withstand high temperatures. When heated, they radiate 100% infrared energy. But they also function much like charcoal to create TEC's famous outdoor grill flavor. When drippings from food touch the surface of the heated glass, they are incinerated, producing a smoky vapor that infuses food with our delicious charbroil taste. And expensive marinades can be poured on the food while grilling without wasting them because any excess that drips on the glass sizzles into steam that becomes part of the smoky vapor that flavors the food.

Virtually Flare Proof - The patented design of TEC's new grilling system includes a radiant glass panel located between the burner and the cooking grids. These panels not only emit 100% radiant energy, they block rising hot air, preventing it from contacting the food and drying it out. An additional benefit is that flare ups are virtually eliminated during grilling because by preventing the flow of air at the grilling surface the oxygen required to ignite food drippings is also eliminated.

Unprecedented Range of Cooking Intensity - Most people associate infrared grilling with high temperature searing because TEC's original ceramic infrared burners have very little turn-down capability. These burners basically have two levels of cooking intensity—hot or hotter. But TEC's new grilling system is not only 100% infrared, it has an unprecedented range of cooking intensity that allows you to smoke a turkey on low fire (200° F) and sear a steak on high (800° F). Our grills heat up quickly too - reaching maximum infrared searing temperatures in 7 minutes after preheating on high fire with the hood closed.

100% 304 Stainless Steel Burners - The ceramic burners used in other infrared grilling systems today are known to be fragile - susceptible to moisture damage and impact breakage. But TEC's patented, 304 stainless steel, infrared burners are ultra-tough and built to last. These burners have been cycled in laboratory testing for thousands of hours and have proven to be virtually indestructible.

Fuel Efficient Green Grilling - TEC's new patented burner systems are the most fuel-efficient burner systems ever developed for grilling. In fact, laboratory tests indicate that TEC grills are over 50% more energy efficient than traditional convection grills. And because the amount of harmful emissions produced by a burner is directly proportionate to the amount of fuel the burner consumes, TEC grills also reduce emissions by 50% or more.