Photo courtesy of Weber-Stephen Products

When you think “appliances,” you probably don’t think about grills, and you might not think “Dunnett’s.” But the store carries them — and a brand consistently rated by groups such as Consumer Reports as being the best value for the money.

Weber grills are certainly an American success story. It began in 1951 when George Stephen worked for the Weber Brothers Metal Works near Chicago, welding spherical buoys for a local yacht club, and he had an idea. As an avid griller, he found the typical flat, open braziers of the day to be inefficient and inadequate, but it occurred to him that he could fashion a grill out of the unwelded halves of a buoy. It didn’t work well at first, until a neighbor suggested poking holes in it to provide oxygen for the fire. That did the trick, and Weber grills were born.

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