[Bruce Kurtz]

I have a 10 year old Vermont Castings gas grill. Your problem happened to me, the gas would light but it did not heat up the grill. Went back to the manual, and it stated that my grill and I guess all the grills that came out around that time, have a regulator coupling equipped with a flow control mechanism (as Obamama would call it a thingamajig or doohickey).

What does this mean? Well the doohickey (sp) limits the gas flow in case there is a sudden demand for gas. This can happen in a couple of ways:
1. A burner control knob was left on when you opened the propane cylinder valve (watchyoumallcallit).
2. Rapidly opening the valve can also turn on the flow control.

How to fix the problem with the flow control:
1. close the cylinder valve
2. Make sure all burner control knobs are off
3. Open the cylinder valve slowly (according to my manual about 1-2 turns) and wait 5 seconds
4. Turn on a single burner and try to relight it

[rottndog]

Thanks for that. I have always left one burner on after I shut the tank valve to let leftover gas burn off. Makes sense to me now.

Of course you know...now I have to go try it out on a good steak or three....and then again the next day, and so on...