Broil King 922184 Baron 490 Liquid Propane Grill

Product overview

Broil King Baron 490: What to Know

This is the standard (non-Pro) Baron 490, model 922184, in liquid propane — Broil King also sells a step-up 'Baron 490 Pro' and 'Baron S 490 Pro IR' with additional infrared searing hardware under different model numbers and separate ASINs, so if a listing you find elsewhere says '490 Pro' rather than plain '490,' you're looking at a different, pricier grill than the one reviewed here. We picked the plain Baron 490 because it's the direct size-and-price match for the Weber, Napoleon, and Char-Broil grills on this list.

The Amazon listing's own feature bullets (not a third-party spec sheet) list four stainless steel Dual-Tube burners rated at 40,000 BTU combined, a 10,000-BTU side burner, and a 15,000-BTU stainless rear rotisserie burner with a premium rotisserie kit included. Total cooking space is listed at 644 square inches including the porcelain-coated warming rack, with 444 square inches of primary cooking space — the largest total-cooking-area figure of any grill on this list. Broil King's Dual-Tube burner design routes gas through two tubes per burner rather than one, which the brand markets as more even heat distribution and better flare-up resistance than a single-tube burner design; we haven't independently tested that claim.

Construction details from the same listing: heavy-duty reversible cast-iron cooking grids, a stainless Flav-R-Wave heat-distribution system over the burners, a porcelain cook box with cast aluminum end caps, an enclosed cabinet base with black painted doors, stainless control panel and drop-down side shelves, and large locking casters. It's a heavier, more cabinet-style grill than the Weber or Char-Broil on this list, which some buyers will read as more solid and others will read as bulkier to move.

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