Who is the Inventor?
Hi there, I am Bob Healey and I’m an engineer an entrepreneur and patriotic American through and through, and a renaissance man’s man who has developed the coolest thing you’ve ever seen, the first of a long line of torches that is and will be designed specifically for lighting charcoal grills, wood stoves, outdoor fireplaces, campfires, controlled pasture burns, outdoor trash incinerators and just about anything you can think of that you need a high power fire torch to solve your problem. I call it the GrillGun, and my company is called GrillBlazer / grillblazer.com.
You will not believe how quickly, easily, safely, and effectively you can start your grill and how macho you will look while doing it. If you are like me, you’ll be cooking on your grill three minutes after you start. I’m including the time it takes to walk out to the grill, put charcoal in it, light it, heat it, sterilize the grill grate, and put your food on to cook! HOW COOL IS THAT!!!
This is where the tagline “Light your grill in 60 seconds” comes from. Depending on how much charcoal you have and where you place it on the grill, your charcoal could be lit and ready to cook usually in less than 60 seconds. Heating the rest of the grill and flaming off the cooking grates are also something you will want to do to bring your outdoor grill up to cooking temperature. The GrillGun completely changes the dynamics of charcoal grilling from something that normally takes a long time to do, to a fun and exciting, fast new way to cook. No more foul taste from cooking on fires started with lighter fluid, self-starting charcoal briquettes soaked in lighter fuel, or just wasting time waiting on the charcoal chimney or the hot air blow dryer to get the charcoal hot, and then to heat the rest of the grill. Because of these well-understood limitations, charcoal grilling takes half an hour or so after you begin the process to be able to grill your food. Using the GrillGun to light your grill is the closest thing to instant readiness that you’ve ever experienced… actually faster than a gas grill! In fact, I have spoken with gas grillers who said they will buy a GrillGun for use with their gas grills, to just get them hot and ready to cook much faster, and also because the GrillGun is just so cool. They would not only use it to flame up their grill grates and warm up the cooker before cooking, but while cooking, they will braise their meat on the top side to sear in the juices on a rare piece of steak. (Shhh…I secretly think I’ll ultimately convert them all to charcoal grilling, but for now I’m glad they see the value of the GrillGun, even though they still want to cook over their gas flames.)
GrillGuns are 400,000+ BTU torches that look like pistols with a long torch barrel and fire bell. They operate on propane, either a portable 1lb bottle or tethered to a 20lb propane tank with an 8-foot hose. Portability in a tool like this is essential so you can keep a GrillGun in your car trunk or with your outdoor supplies, ready for picnics, the lake, camping, the park, tailgating, etc. Being able to connect to a 20 or 30 lb. propane tank is also a must so that you can have a seemingly endless supply of fuel for those activities that require an extensive use of propane, such as regular grilling or controlled pasture burning, or if you want the economy of bulk propane rather than the higher cost of buying and disposing of, or refilling portable 1lb. bottles.
For fifteen years or so now, I had been lighting my charcoal grills with ordinary weed torches many varieties are available from various retail and countless online outlets, but as effective as they are at starting fires, the idea has never really caught on, and the flame isn’t optimized for starting a charcoal grill. You can go to YouTube any time and see lots of people lighting grills with weed torches, but because of the type of torches that have been available to use, it has never become a “thing”. So, in December of 2018, I decided to do something about it, and the GrillBlazer torch idea started taking shape. I researched existing weed torches and torches of every kind. I figured out the drawbacks of each of them, and how to build an attractive, reliable, robust, durable, high-powered grill torch. I then did market analysis to determine just exactly what would appeal to manly men, die-hard seasoned outdoor grillers, or casual grillers or BBQ cookers of either sex. I then set out to design and manufacture a product that would really work, be reliable, start safely when you pulled the trigger, and have great reviews. At last, the GrillGun was born.
The GrillGun revolutionizes the torch and makes it a superior, robust, reliable, self-starting, portable, high-power grill torch. So far, everyone who has seen it and used it has been absolutely blown away. So, I’ve named the company GrillBlazer (GrillBlazer.com) as an umbrella company for selling gun-style high-powered torches that all fit nicely in the hand, are well balanced, comfortable to use and control, and look like recognizable, cool, classic, or futuristic handgun firearms.
I want to change the charcoal-grilling, tailgating, picnicking, or camping experience across the land. With your help, we’ll make it… Let’s toast to our success!
Bob (or GrillBob) – Now Let’s go Grillin’