Since 1961, Thermal Engineering Corporation® grills have been driven by a single goal: to create better results through the applied science of radiant heat transfer. Professional and backyard chefs across America base their reputation on our cooking systems made with TEC infra-red radiant burner systems.

TEC® grills invented the grill industry's first infrared burner in 1981 knowing that food prepared in this manner would taste better. Over the years, thousands of TEC® owners have discovered the flavorful, mouthwatering TEC® Taste for themselves. Today, TEC® grills are offered in a variety of infrared systems, from a unit that's light enough to travel with you to an entire outdoor cooking island.

For moist, tender, delicious grilled food, use a TEC®.
TEC® grills use infrared technology to provide that delicious outdoor-grilled flavor yet allow foods to remain moist and tender. We build our grills to the highest quality standards and use the very best materials in order to deliver years of dependable service. TEC® grills can cook as fast–or as slow as you like. Easy to use and easy to clean, TEC® grills are so convenient and versatile you'll find that you cook out much more often.

Unique ceramic burners give precise control over a wide range of temperatures and near-perfect heat distribution.
All TEC® grills (except Cherokee Electric) feature patented 15,000-port ceramic burners. Thousands of tiny flames bring these burners to a glow quickly. Then, like glowing charcoal, TEC® burners radiate infrared energy, but with more precise temperature control and more even heat distribution. Unlike charcoal, our grills need no petroleum to ignite. Removable drip trays make cleanup easy. And since they use radiant energy rather than hot air, freezing outdoor temperatures have no effect on these grills. They perform perfectly, from Alaska to Florida.

The TEC® Classic Ceramic Infrared Cooking System offers tasty advantages.
Several of our grills feature this popular system. It cooks with about 60% infrared radiant energy and 40% hot air from burner combustion (as do charcoal grills). About half the escaping juices are captured in patented, channeled grids and are vaporized into smoke. The other half fall onto the ceramic burners, and are instantly vaporized. The resulting grilled taste surpasses that created by most restaurants–unless, of course, they use TEC's® commercial infrared grills (as many fine restaurants do).

Contrast TEC® Infrared Cooking Systems with conventional grills, which cook mainly with hot air. In order to cook, hot air must first dry away the layer of water and air molecules surrounding food. As this boundary layer is dried away, moisture within wicks out.

The effects of hot-air cooking are seen when a chicken breast is cooked on conventional gas grills. By the time the breast is sufficiently cooked, it's tough and dry. But infrared radiant energy created by TEC's® Cooking Systems passes through the boundary layer, generating heat within and cooking without drying. Chicken breasts remain tender, juicy and flavorful–like a different food!

TEC's Classic Infrared System is vastly superior to conventional grills in terms of heat-up time (five minutes, compared to 20 to 30 minutes), maximum cooking speed (foods that cook in 20 minutes or less on a conventional grill will take about half that time to cook on a TEC®), heat distribution (there are no "hot or cool spots"), retention of moisture in foods, and outdoor, grilled taste.

The TEC® Radiant glass Infrared Cooking System is the most technically advanced form of grilling today.
TEC's® newest line of grills, the Sterling G-2000, 3000 and 4000, as well as the value-engineered RadiantWave and Cherokee Electric Portable, all use our newly patented Radiant Glass Infrared Cooking System. This system uses a tempered glass panel between the heat source and the cooking surface to eliminate the passage of hot air to food. These grills cook with almost 100% infrared radiant energy. So even well-done steaks remain tender and juicy!

Our new Glass Infrared System boosts fuel efficiency, improves heat distribution and reduces flare-ups. In addition, the glass completely shields the burner from wind and water. Another advantage of the Glass System is that it permits incredibly slow cooking. (We've melted butter in a paper plate on a low fire–without burning the plate!). This makes slow-roasting foods easier to do than on any other outdoor cooking device we've ever seen!

For additional information about TEC® grills go to their website at www.tecinfrared.com.