How to Light a Propane Gas Barbecue Grill

Video Transcript

"So we’re back, and we’re going to show you guys how to get your propane gas grill lit safely and efficiently. We’ve already got our propane tank hooked up, so at this point I’m going to go ahead and show you, this is essentially a blast shield of sorts. What happens is the fire comes up from underneath these vent holes here and it disperses a lot more evenly this way. If we were to try to cook on the element this way without anything to disperse the flame it would cook less efficiently, so this just fits in here like so. It runs the full length of the grill so we get a nice even cooking surface. A lot of times I don’t use the igniter. On some grills, sometimes they’re a little faulty. Sometimes they just don’t work as consistently as you’d like. I have a little kick lighter here that I like to use. So, I’m going to start with one side. There are two sides. There are a million different grills out there, they may have 6 elements, 4 elements, 2 elements. This really only has two, so this is a smaller version. We’re going to light one at a time for safety reasons. When I crank this knob, you should be able to hear some propane escaping through the tank which is a good sign. That means you’ve got a nice even flow coming through your hose and up into your element here. So I’m going to crank that one first, just a tiny bit, and just enough to get a flame going, which I have. Then I’m going to light this next side, and get that flame going. So, I’ve got those on a very very low heat, and I’ve got that straightened out the way I want. So, here’s our grill, which has been cleaned already. I’m going to lay that ever so gently right there. Now, what I’m going to do is straighten this guy out a little bit with a cooking utensil here in a sec. But, we’re going to go ahead and close this lid here and let that heat start generating on the inside. At the same time, we’re going to get heat evenly distributed to the top as well as the bottom, because we’re going to use both to cook all the items of food that we have today."