Feature Focus: Go Thick with a Floating Hinge
If you’re a fan of stuffed burgers, Panini or thick-cut steaks and chops, then you need a contact grill with a floating hinge. It allows you to cook thick and thin foods with the great results, so you can enjoy greater variety in your grilled menu with foods you wouldn’t normally be able to fit on your indoor grill. You can do your favorite bistro and steakhouse meals at home, while you knock out the fat for healthier meals.
The floating hinge is a specialized part that connects the top grill plate and casing to the bottom of the grill. With a regular indoor contact grill, the hinge that connects these two pieces is fixed, so the cover of your grill always closes to the same height. On the other hand, the hinge used in a floating hinge contact grill has give that allows the height of the top plate to adjust automatically to the thickness of your food.
This way, you can fit thicker cuts of meat, stuffed burger patties and sandwiches on your contact grill without smashing them when you close the top plate. On the flip side, when you cook thinner cuts of meat and veggies the hinge still closes so the top plate is resting directly on top of the food to cook. In this way, you can cook skirt steak for fajitas one night and thick-cut lamb chops the next, both with evenly cooked, consistent results.
If you’re looking for a floating hinge grill to give you this kind of cooking versatility, you can get any Medium or Large George Foreman Grill for a standard 1-inch floating hinge. We also have a few extra-high floating hinge grills for even thicker cuts, like the Evolve™ Grill series with a hinge that floats up to 2 inches.
Or, if you’re a stuffed burger fanatic, we also recommend our G-Broil™ Grill series, which features a 1.5-inch float & lock hinge. This not only adjusts to the thickness of your burger as you cook, but can also then be locked in placed above food to melt cheese directly on your burger as it finishes grilling.
