Written by Annabel
Edited on
2 October 2025
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10:17
5 advantages of an infrared gas burner on your BBQ
It's becoming more popular to grill on your gas BBQ with an infrared burner. That's logical, because this allows you to make tender steaks. If a gas BBQ has an infrared burner, it's often a side burner. But more and more barbecues also have main burners that work with infrared. In this article, you can read the 5 most important advantages of an infrared burner.
1. Less time heating up
Thanks to an infrared burner, a gas barbecue will reach the temperature you want more quickly. That's thanks to the extra high power of an infrared burner. The intense radiation of the burner ensures that the barbecue reaches a grilling temperature of about 250°C within 3 to 5 minutes.
2. Reaches extra high temperatures
Did the barbecue heat up? The infrared burner makes sure it sears the meat quickly. That's because the power and the temperature of an infrared BBQ are much higher than that of a BBQ with regular gas burners. This way, your steak gets nice dark-brown grill marks.
3. Meat stays juicy
The longer you leave the meat on your barbecue, the more natural juices it loses. Because you sear the meat quickly on an infrared burner on your gas barbecue, the meat stays more juicy. That's why you can make tender meat on a gas barbecue with infrared burner.
4. Shorter grilling times
The hotter the barbecue, the shorter the meals have to stay on the heat. This means that an infrared burner makes sure the grill times of all dishes are shorter. In some cases even up to 4 times shorter. That saves a lot of time and gas.
5. Use less fuel
Infrared burners use less gas than regular burners. That's because of the way the burners give off heat. The heat of an infrared burner reaches the food directly with radiation. It's like how the rays of sunlight heat your skin. Regular burners heat the air around the burner and it reaches the food that way. With an infrared burner, you save fuel and money.
