re: Grill recommendation

If my budget is 2 thousand dollars and I'm only getting one grill, it's going to be gas.

The convenience and ease of gas really can't be beat and you can do great things on a high quality gas grill.

There's nothing about a pellet grill that really moves me. It's really a wood burning oven and I don't necessarily want everything I grill or cook to taste like smoke.

I've got a weber genesis gass grill, a vision kamado i picked up about 10 yrs ago on clearance from Sam's and a Weber kettle. I cook with all three.

If I could only keep one, it would be the genesis. I can do everything on that I could do on the others and then some. Even low and slow with smoke.

Get a couple of tube smokers, LINK a 4 burner or better high quality gas grill and you can low and low anything, anyone could do on a pellet grill. Also, on those occasions when you don't want everything you cook to taste like smoke, you have that option.

I guess you can cook on a pellet grill without pellets if you don't want smoke flavor but I doubt it would cook as evenly across the entire surface as a high end gas grill. Also, it may not even sear without the wood pellets.