Comments on: The Freedom Grill Hitchmount Portable BBQ Grill

By: scott

scott — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:12:31 +0000

Hi John, actually I just came back from meeting with Home Depot in Dallas. We conducted 3 days of road trips with surrounding area stores – so look for them coming to a store near you later this spring. We have some HD stores listed on our site from an earlier trial conducted last fall that went well enough to get invited back out to talk to more stores. Currently we are not listed on their site as we have plenty of .coms selling the grills – we are more interested in getting in local retail where if someone sees the grill on the road they can get one from their local retailer the same day.

I am interested in the video blog on the grill and will follow up directly with you.

Thanks, Scott

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:07:12 +0000

Thanks for that update Scott. I’m very glad to hear that the burner output has increased. That is a sizable difference! 75%!

By the way, since you stopped by… I actually tried to see if there was a local place that I could take a look at one of these grills because I was considering picking one up to do a Video blog about it, but I can’t find any in Dallas.

Actually a search on your homepage came back with a few local Home Depot’s listed, but searching on the HD site returns no results for your grills. So, what’s up with that?!? No way I can do a proper review of the grill without plugging into the hitch on my Titan and cooking something for a crowd! :-)

Why don’t you guys send one down here to the John P. ranch and I’ll give you plenty of lovin’ on the old Blog. ;-) (I can’t be bought… but I can be fed!!!)

John P.

By: scott

scott — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:29:36 +0000

Thanks for the mention. The FG-50 (shown is the video) retails for $349 (grill and swing arm) and now comes in 20,000 BTU’s.

By: John P.

John P. — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:06:21 +0000

Amen Wilhelm! I’ve recently been quite frustrated with grill cleaning. I’ve got a big expensive grill out back with a whole lot of grates and they are very tough to clean after cooking. Plus, even though they are “stainless” they still rust over time.

At this point I’ve resorted to taking them inside and washing them in the sink by hand and then storing them indoors between uses. It seems to be the only way to protect them. :-(

John P.

By: Wilhelm Helmbold

Wilhelm Helmbold — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:47:37 +0000

I wish more effort would go into easier ways to clean grills rather than to hitch them!

I guess one advantage of transporting the grill outside your vehicle is that you and your car won’t smell like your roast.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:13:43 +0000

for 300$, I would rather have a nicer grill ;)

By: Tom Barr

Tom Barr — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:25:05 +0000

I hope it has a back up warning system. I’d hate to see the impression of that in a parked car across the street.

Also, I was thinking it might be great to throw something on that grill and cook as you drive. The roast will be medium rare if the roads are clear and well done with traffic.

By: RHB

RHB — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:05:28 +0000

I had a clever hitch mounted bike rack once, great, but when a guy rearended me I lost 2k worth of mountain bikes. But better off than a friend who had roof mounted bikes and pulled into his garage…

By: Derek Wong

Derek Wong — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:37:12 +0000

I think that it’s a good idea in some regards, and mighty convenient. But I’d hate to be the guy that gets rearended with this thing attached. Instant $1000 loss and perhaps some kind of a legal troubles for extending your vehicle. You just never know in this day and age.

I am hungry for some BBQ, though!

By: RHB

RHB — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:42:54 +0000

Sorry, am I the only one who thinks this is a tad silly? To pay almost 1K and leave it out in the elements as you drive along? Not to mention the overall crassness of the concept. Oh well niche marketing I suppose hehe.