I'll elaborate more in a different thread later on, but....
I had a few terrifying minutes this past weekend. I was using a Weber gas grill that was not mine. Cooking up burgers and dogs. Everything was going just fine, grill was at 300 degrees and food was cooking great.
Turned my back for 2 minutes to help others get a little project done. Came back, the grill was at 600 degrees and climbing fast. I quickly turned all the burners off.
Opened the kettle to see that the bottom of the grill was on fire, as was the drip pan. I wrapped my arm in some water soaked towels that I had and grabbed that very hot handle and closed the grill, only to see it climb to 700 degrees.
Said a little prayer and after about 4 minutes, which seemed like an eternity, it cooled to 600 degrees. Flames were out, opened the grill top just a tick and saw that the grease and flames were in fact not on fire any longer.
So yah, the grill must have been very dirty.
And I got away very lucky. With the heat coming out of that thing, I do not know if I could have been able to disconnect the propane.
Thinking I was very lucky in the fact that no flames were sucked into the gas line and back into the propane when I shut it off.
If anyone has been in a position like this, what are some things that could have been done that would have helped the situation?
I'm still here counting my lucky stars that the flames went out and there was no damage done. Could have, err, it probably should have been much, much worse.