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Greenhouse gas is also a threat to our environment and Christies have spent many years studying and refining the energy efficiency of their Parksafe BBQs.

The key is to understand that efficiency is not about simplistic power ratings. Efficiency is a complex measure of the total energy consumed over the time required to complete a specific task.

For example, a jetliner needs to burn enough fuel to keep it flying until all its passengers reach their final destination safely. If it burns too little fuel it will lose power and crash. Too much, and it wastes energy and increases pollution.

For ‘parksafe’ cooking, the task is to apply enough power for long enough to cook properly and hygienically.

Half-cooked food is unacceptable. And hygiene dictates that a BBQ must have enough power to heat every part of the cooking surface rapidly to the correct temperature and then sustain it through the cooking process.

How much power is enough? Scientific tests prove conclusively that 1.8 kw isn't enough to provide safe cooking.

It is enough to heat the hotplate, but like an empty jetliner, that’s of little use. A full load of food increases the thermal mass to a point where the low powered hotplate cannot keep all the food safe.

By contrast, a 6 kW hotplate cooks everything brilliantly, and safely. And does it so quickly, it actually achieves the highest efficiency rating of all.

However, running heavy power cables to remote locations often makes the 6kW hotplate impractical.

In the end, Christies found the 3.6 kW High-Efficiency hotplate had just the right balance of power and speed.

It’s Bonded Dual-Layer technology spreads the energy more evenly across the entire plate, making it at least 12% more efficient than the low-powered 1.8kw unit.

And Christie testing didn't stop with electric BBQs. Christies recognised that, in some parts of the world, by far the most efficient fuel to use is gas.

The challenge with gas was to build the world's first truly 'parksafe'gas BBQ.

At its heart was an innovative 'parksafe' gas burner that completely isolated the flame while still incorporating all the key Christie safety and hygiene principles.

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