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To add a little extra smoky flavor, I placed a foil packet of wood pellets on the bottom of the grill and it worked beautifully.Īnother big difference between the Spark and a pellet grill is that the Spark can get really hot-up to 900☏ hot with the high heat briq. I tested this out with a pork shoulder and it made meltingly tender pulled pork with little to no effort. The low-and-slow briq is particularly impressive: It can maintain temperatures around 250-300☏ for six to eight hours, essentially turning your grill into a smoker.

The quick cooking briq burns for 30-45 minutes and is ideal for your weekday skewers or a round of burgers for the family, while the everyday briq burns twice as long and allows for more varied temperatures, best if you’re grilling a main and sides. One thing they have in common is that they all heat the grill in 10 minutes or less.

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We’ve reached out to Spark and will update the story when we get a response.Spark has four styles of briq-each with a somewhat different construction and charcoal density-designed to allow you to cook in different ways.

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However, in what could be interpreted as a sign the company may be trying to help its customers keep grilling once it closes its doors, last week it posted a video on Youtube showing how to use the Spark grill with ordinary briquette charcoal.

Spark shutting down would also be extra tough for owners of the grill because the system uses a proprietary charcoal system only available from the company. The grill also has an accompanying mobile app that lets you monitor the temperatures of your cooking cavity and the food you’re cooking. The Spark is capable of getting temperatures between a low 200 degrees all the way up to a ripping hot 900 degrees.

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The stylish grill ditches the lumps of briquets for a single, flat charcoal “Briq,” and uses a series of stoking and cooling fans for precision temperature control. Here’s how we described The Spark Grill when we first wrote about it: It’s a bummer because the company’s technology stood out in a sea of nearly identical grilling systems with its precision charcoal heating system. The company CEO, Ben West, has also indicated on his Linkedin that he is “figuring out what’s next.” In addition to signs that the company is no longer selling any products, its executive team looks like it has started to move on. No email response, phone, or text back during biz hours. However after the unit leaked grease and stained my patio (my fault for not using a grill pad, their fault for advertising no need for a grease bucket) I’ve been trying to return my unit for two months and support has gone dark. When I bought my Spark in the Summer their support was top notch. And, according to some of the company’s customers on Reddit, Spark’s support lines have gone dark. Their website has stopped selling charcoal bricks and has no inventory left of its grilling systems for sale. While the company, which makes a proprietary charcoal-based grilling system, has not made any official announcement, outward signs indicate the company has all but closed up shop. It looks like Spark Grills has shut down. (Editor’s note: Spark Grills has filed to liquidate its assets in a procedure akin to filing for bankruptcy called a “Assignment for the benefit of the creditors (ABC)”.

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