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Kate's cooking up on the Weber Spirit grill refresh for this year, specifically the Weber Spirit E-425 4-burner grill (though it's safe to say you can expect similar performance for the Weber Spirit E-325.) Cooking steak on the Weber Spirit Sear Zone, a sear station that produces epic caramelization, was a total success. Burgers and veggies came out to perfection, too. If you're wondering which Weber gas grill is the best for you, there's a good chance it's the Spirit. Watch this full Weber Spirit grill review to learn more about what to expect.
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If you know grills, you know Weber, and if you know Weber, you probably know the Spirit line
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This has been a go-to for outdoor cooks for years. When the highly anticipated 2025 lineup dropped
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I had one big question. Promising the kind of features that you usually find on higher-end
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grills, for the Weber Spirit's starting $500 price tag, can you have a premium
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grilling experience without emptying your wallet? First things first, assembling this grill was pretty straightforward. And this is the EP425 model to be specific, not the EP325
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which should be even easier to set up since it's smaller and doesn't have the added cooktop on the
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left. Still, I've set up quite a few grills in recent years, including my fair share of assembly
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nightmares. So I really appreciated just how mostly painless this was, though I definitely recommend
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grabbing another set of hands to speed it along. I especially like how the propane tank nests
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inside here while also leaving some room for grilling gear. Speaking of gear, this grill is
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outfitted for the Weber work system. You see the rails on the side. These can hold all sorts of
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useful accessories like a cup holder or even like just these hooks here for my spatula and tongs come
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in handy. The right side is also compatible with a caddy tray that you can get from Weber so you
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can really customize your grill setup for your needs. Okay, we're preheating. Once I got it going
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grill was on point. No matter what I was grilling, whether it was the steaks, veggies, or burgers
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the cooking surface stayed consistently even. I throw these onions up here to get started
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Hi, I want to show you what we're doing today. I had to call my dad in to get his seal of
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approval. I feel like any griller, they're learning from their dad, right? But this one
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and I feel like I'm able to just kind of turn it on, know what to do
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I like to grill. I not a pro like this guy right here but I think I get the stamp of approval Want to come to Queens I on my way kiddo All right Love you Dad The grill held heat well which meant I didn have to worry about hot spots or uneven cooking
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Weber knows how to make a reliable cooking machine at this point, so this wasn't much to my surprise
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But it was nice while following the digital temperature gauge. I could see it when I closed the lid back up
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It was working to bring the inside temperature back up to where I needed it. I used a heat gun to measure the temperature as well and found that it was pretty accurate to what was on the spirits display
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One piece of onion down. All right, we got a piece of onion down, but that's fine because this thing is easy to clean
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If I go down in here, that piece of onion ended up right there
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Two slices of cheese, the only right amount of cheese. While my burgers and veggies are finishing up, I wanted to show you a neat addition to the spirit line
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Remember, this is the four-burner version. It costs $600, and with that, you get an included cooktop that's powered by the same propane tank, but it can be controlled separately by temperature
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Now, personally, I've never had a grill or outdoor appliance with this type of feature, so I'm not really sure how I would integrate it into my cooking
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I could even see not using the grill and just having this sometimes outside if I just need to whip up something really quick
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But overall, for the price of the Weber Spirit and the fact that it has a feature like this built in
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it's just that added value that was really coming through in this product this year
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Okay, these are ready. All right, we're going to go down. All right, taste test
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Mmm. The real standout here is the sear zone. The two right side burners combined for a major heat boost in that area
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40% more to be exact. Just be mindful of your cook time since that extra heat can cook things faster than you might expect I say no more than a minute or two basically Use it how you would use a broiler in your oven if that makes sense With the sear zone on we going to see temperatures on this side getting up to a
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steady 500 degrees and beyond. I would say for thinner cuts of steak, you could probably cook
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them directly on the sear zone for the whole time. But for chicken or other cuts of protein
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I'll stick to doing most of the cook on the left side before throwing them over to the sear zone
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to finish. Now we're going on to the sear zone. You can see right away that it's doing its job there
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Whoa. The sear marks on my ribeye steaks were perfect. If you love that crispy caramelized
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exterior, this grill has you covered. You can do this on chicken if you want to do a blackened
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fish, things like that would be perfect in this sear zone or just anything that you really want
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to push up the heat on. For example, you could throw a pizza stone on here, right? You want your
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pizzas to be cooking at a bit higher temperatures. You can put that here. You close the lid for a
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couple minutes. Boom. Kind of have like your all-in-one station there. That's if you want to
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take your grilling to the next level though, of course. After grilling, cleanup was a total breeze
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thanks to the new grease management system. The removable drip tray slides right out from the
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bottom, making it easier to deal with the grease and leftover debris or food that might have fallen
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between the grates. If you've dealt with the older models where you had to kind of scrape them out
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this is much smoother of an experience. The grates also wiped up very easily between uses
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though I am in the market for a new grill brush, so I would appreciate any recommendations you guys
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might have. And now, before I dive into a reason you might want to skip the Weber spirit, don't
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forget to hit that subscribe button and leave a comment if you've tried out a Weber grill before
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or if you're here because you're eyeing an upgrade. I gotta say, it's really hard to fault
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this grill, but one small downside here is the lack of a propane gauge. It's a small thing
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but when you grilling and the tank runs dry unexpectedly it can be a real buzzkill You either have to keep track of your propane manually or buy a separate gauge to monitor it I don know for how much tech and features Weber packed into this thing It one of those small conveniences that I wish wasn overlooked I didn go into this episode of
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buyer skip needing much convincing. I mean, the Spirit line has its reputation for a reason. And
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for the 2025 version, we just get those couple of upgrades that make the difference. Take it to the
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next level we got the induction burner we got the improved gas system even heating and of course
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that sear zone that we had a lot of fun with right here now i'll say that when you're looking at 600
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for this four ignition spirit grill it kind of puts you in this no man's land of if you want to
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spend a little bit more to go up to an even higher end grill that's why i would say if you're really
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looking for something that's compact easy to use great for beginners small spaces or hey you're
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just looking for an affordable grill upgrade under $500, I would go for the 3 ignition version
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I like that value just a little bit more, and you're still going to get the sear zone on that
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version. If you've made it to the end of this video, I'm curious if you watched it because
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you're interested in a grill upgrade or you're buying a grill for the first time. If that's the
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case, what kind of features in a grill matter most to you? Let me know in the comments. A little
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teaser, I got a couple of more outdoor cooking and grilling videos teed up for this summer
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So make sure you're subscribed and turn on those notifications so you don't miss out on the fun
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I got one thing left to do and that's go eat everything we cooked up. So that's it for me for this video
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Thanks for watching guys. I'll catch you next time I could eat this all day
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A sear zone is really gonna help that kind of soak into the, oh, not even know what I'm saying
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This is when like I am not a celebrity chef
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