“And then you're trying to turn on the gas and throw a match in there without burning your eyebrows off. … So again, you're not throwing a match into an open bucket of gas and hoping for the best.”
BBQ Nation · Food & Beverage · October 2026
Context
Asked what to look for in a built-in outdoor grill, the sales manager stresses ignition that works without power, mocking cheap grills whose push-button igniters fail first.
Transcript
…It's all a friction-based spark, opens up the valve. And then it shoots a flame six or eight inches down the burner. Very reliable. It's not like, you know, again, the big box stores where you push the little button and it goes click, click, click, and that's always the first thing that dies on it.
Right.
And then you're trying to turn on the gas and throw a match in there without burning your eyebrows off. Outside of the reliable ignition, we've also got a flash tube backup ignition. So again, you just hold your flame to the flash tube and it'll suck the flame down when you turn the valve, when you open the valve. So again, you're not throwing a match into an open bucket of gas and hoping for the best.
Absolutely. We're going to take a break here on Barbecue Nation. Jim Haas from Blaze Grills and I will be back right after this. Don't go
away.
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