The Investigators: Half-Full

(WMC TV) - A combination of no minimum weight requirements and propane suppliers' cost-saving policies is shorting consumers on the amount of propane they're expecting when they buy or exchange grilling cylinders.

The Action News 5 Investigators would have never found out -- if we hadn't been grilling burgers with Richard Rendos.

The Olive Branch, MS, backyard chef cooks three to four times a week on his gas grill. He meticulously tracks what he cooks each week and how long.

He swears no two 20-lb propane grilling cylinders are ever the same.

"One tank we'll put in, and we won't even get through with grilling one full meal out here," said Rendos. "Another tank I put in will last me two or three weeks."


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