Buy Buy, Baby: The $15,000 Outdoor Grill

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When you own a grill as tricked out as Scott Young's, the fireworks burn well beyond the Fourth of July.

Young, director of application and database development for consulting firm PRTM in Waltham, Mass., has a 42-inch Lynx Professional Series free-standing grill on his deck just outside of Boston and talks about it as a gearhead would talk about his vintage Shelby Cobra. For a list price of more than $8,000, Young's grill came stocked with a 1,200-square-inch cooking surface, 25,000 BTU main burners, 18,000 BTU infrared rotisserie burner, dual-position three-speed detachable rotisserie (lined with 7-pound chickens), smoker tray and a dedicated smoker burner (which gives his deck a lovely birch and apple aroma). After adding dual side burners for $1,700 and a $179 vinyl cover, Young has built himself the Mercedes of grills for the price of a 2009 Nissan Versa.

Lynx's 42-inch professional grill costs about $8,000 and offers a built-in refrigerator and smoker box.

"I cannot say enough great things about this grill," he says. "There have been times when I've successfully had two 16-quart pots boiling on the side burners, six half-pound filets, six pub burgers, eight drumsticks, 24 jumbo scallops wrapped in bacon, and a dozen hot dogs and buns all over the place."

Scott is the type of griller whom high-end outfits like Lynx, Kalamazoo Gourmet, Viking and others salivate over: One with tons of discretionary income looking for a toy he can't find at Sears(SHLD Quote), Wal-Mart(WMT Quote) or Kohl's(KSS Quote). One who blows right past the $15,000 price tag on a Kalamazoo 900HS (and the fact that it isn't sold in certain regions, like New England) just so he can use its hybrid grilling drawers to cook with charcoal, wood and gas at the same time.