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EXCELLENCE WITH A WOOD BURNING GRILL
We specialize in creating the ultimate machines for grilling over natural wood fires. Our designs range from patio-friendly home designs to show-kitchen large format showpieces. But every grill we craft shares the same wood-purist DNA, proven over decades by chefs, cutting edge restaurants and of course home cooks at innumerable grill parties all over the world.
The flavor achieved by cooking with natural wood is not accessible to any other method. Each type of wood, its moisture level, and how the operator treats it in-flame produces a different result, adding a key flavor variable to any fare, whether vegetable or protein. Gas, propane and even charcoal lacks this element; the essence of the wood variety chosen for a meal.
Expand your Comfort with Natural Fire
In order to be consistent in delivering successful results over natural flame, an intimate understanding of the cooking fire is paramount, and in tandem with this, control.
Bending a fire to your will is a bit like turning a boat, in that your inputs should be nuanced, and given some time to have their desired effect. The response is never immediate. Adding another log takes several seconds to minutes to affect the flame’s character, and even pulling fuel away from a hot spot doesn’t reduce heat instantaneously. This fundamental should be embraced.
Height Control
The simplest way to control the heat on dishes without having to tame fire is to introduce an easy way to raise and lower food over it. Whether that be via stick or ultra-modern metal cooking surface, a matter of just a few inches turns unworkable into slow-and-gentle almost instantaneously.
Add Cooking Control Points
From the dawn of cooking fires, tools have been used to harness temperature control and ease of cooking. Even direct-coal cooking has a constellation of variations developed over millennia, either providing simple food protection, steadier heat transmission, air-assist, air-restrict and the like, all to the goal of reaching appealing results.
“Until you’ve worked on something like this, you cannot know what a grill is.”
- JOSÉ ANDRÉS
The Grillworks Lift System
All of our production pieces include our signature lift system, providing maximum height range and therefore rapid adjustment to fire contact.
Our cable lift system has been at the core of our residential and portable models for over forty years. These are simple, beautiful and easy to maintain, even to the least mechanically inclined. An aircraft-grade set of stainless steel cables are picked up or lowered on matching pulleys and polished aluminum barrels. At home this system will last a lifetime.
The X Professional Lift System
Our chain-and-gear drive lift system adds incredible heft to the lineup, both to match the new scale our restaurant-bound designs are boasting and adding the strength that allows them to carry the custom cast iron surfaces we’ve developed. Called the X Drive, it is a vertical worm gear system that can lift well over one hundred pounds, doesn’t need any levers to hold it at height, and requires only one hand to operate.
