An outdoor cook could probably point to more than one excellent feature on the Meco charcoal grill. First of all, consider the generous amount of grilling surface provided by the rather square like pattern of the Meco grill. That grilling space totals 342 square inches.

Moreover, the grill designers have supplemented that grilling surface with a foldable wooden table. That tiny “table” has been designed to hang onto the side of the grill.

In addition, each grill has two three position grid adjusters. An outdoor cook can lift the grilling surface for a more slow cooked meal, or lower the grilling surface for some home made “fast food.”

Furthermore designers of the meco charcoal grills made an effort to expedite the clean up that must follow any effort at outdoor food preparation. Each of those grills has a removable grate and an ash dump.

Topping off all of the above features is the mobility of Meco’s charcoal ready grill. Each grill derives its support from bipod “legs.” The two wheels on those legs allow for easy transport of the raised space on which any meat is to be grilled.

So should that list of great features represent a “death knoll” for the cast iron charcoal grill? No it does not. The grill manufactured and sold under the Meco label falls a bit “short” in terms of suitablilty for cooking kebabs. Only a limited number of skewers could go on one grill.

Lovers of kebab are not partial to cooking on a square grill. They tend to prefer a grilling space that has a more rectangular shape. Then they can place their skewers side by side along the entire length of the grill.

Viewed through the eyes of a fat cautious world, the Meco grill lacks the appeal of a charcoal grill rotisserie. While it may be easy to cook beef patties on a flat surface, it is not so easy to cook a whole chicken on a flat grill. Yet a grill rotisserie can provide an outdoor cook with the ability to prepare a whole chicken in a backyard setting.

Seen through the eyes of a hostess, a conventional grill from Meco might fail to look as attractive as one of the stainless charcoal grills. Such a grill does tend to be a bit more “impressive” than the raised Meco grilling surface. As a rule, a hostess likes to impress the guests that are attending any function.

Of course, if a hostess is entertaining a group of young people, then that hostess could find that a Meco grill fills every possible need. As stated above, it allows for the easy outdoor preparation of beef patties. The buns for those patties can be placed right on the grill’s side table.

Today, when there is an increasing emphasis on fiber in the diet, an outdoor cook might want to make vegetables on a grill. Vegetables can be wrapped in aluminum foil and placed on a Meco metal grill. This technique could help parents to promote the idea of making room on a plate for cooked vegetables.

Unfortunately, this “sneaky” approach to promoting vegetables would only work for a parent with a grill in the backyard. What about all the children who live in an apartment? How can parents help them learn to eat more vegetables?

That question brings up yet another drawback to the grill made and sold under the Meco label (B.B.Q). It is rather difficult to transport that grill. In fact, whenever someone goes online to order Meco’s gril, they read that it will be shipped apart from any other ordered item.

The ability to move  cooking equipment has long been a concern of those cooks that like to prepare and serve kebabs. Picnics are quite popular in Iran, where kebab might well be seen as the “national” dish. The easier it is to take equipment to a picnic, the more popular that equipment becomes. A small, cheap recatangular charcoal “box” could be just the thing for an Iranian style picnic.

There are not apt to be many requests for hamburgers at such a picnic. Hamburger buns would be out of place at such a picnic. They would probably be replaced by either pita bread or flat bread. Such bread can by used to hold and eat a hot kebab.

Thus the future of the Meco grill seems to depend to an extent on the result of the “dual” between the hamburg patty and pork chop recipes and the dish known as “kebab kubideh.” That is a kebab that has been fashioned from seasoned ground beef.