About Grill Reviews
Grill Reviews publishes reviews of grills, smokers and griddles written from the manufacturer’s own published specifications and documentation. We do not cook on them, and every review says so.
What this site is
A grill listing gives you a cooking area in square inches, a BTU figure, a burner count or a temperature range, a hopper or a fuel type, a weight and a set of dimensions, and leaves you to work out whether any of it matters for how you cook. The reviews here take one model at a time and read those numbers for what they imply: whether 450 square inches feeds a family or a party, whether 40,000 BTU across four burners is hot or merely thirsty, whether a 20-pound hopper does an overnight brisket without a refill.
The site covers gas, charcoal, pellet, smokers, kamado & ceramic, electric, griddles & flat-tops and portable & camping grills. Each review sits in one of those categories, and the categories are what the navigation is built around.
What we do not do
We do not light the grills we review. We do not measure grate temperatures, time a preheat, run a smoker overnight or season a griddle. No grill described here has cooked a meal for us. A review on this site is a reading of what the manufacturer publishes, written for someone deciding whether that model fits their patio and their cooking, and we would rather say that plainly than imply hands-on experience we do not have.
We do not publish star ratings, review counts, or exact prices. Where a manufacturer has not published a specification, a review says so instead of guessing.
Who writes this
Marcus Cole, Editor, is the byline on every review. Marcus is an editorial name rather than a person you could look up, and we would rather say so than let a fabricated biography do work it has not earned. There are no trade credentials behind it, and there should not be: a site that states on every page that it does not cook on grills has no business presenting an expert as its author.
What stands behind a review is the method, which is written down, and the manufacturer’s published figures, which you can check.
What changed in 2026
For its first two years this site reviewed whatever appeared under a grill search, which meant tongs, thermometers, grill brushes, covers, pellets and charcoal were reviewed alongside the grills they belong to. In September 2026 we went through all 325 pages and removed 136 from search — tongs and tool sets, thermometers, brushes and cleaners, covers, replacement grates and burners, pellets, charcoal, fire starters, smoker boxes and a sandwich press. The 189 pages that remain are grills. The removed pages still exist for anyone who arrives at them, but they are no longer what this site is about and we no longer ask search engines to index them.
Browse by type
- Gas grills — Propane and natural-gas grills: burners, BTUs, cooking area and what a sear station is for.
- Charcoal grills — Kettles, barrels and cabinets that burn charcoal: vents, grate height and ash handling.
- Pellet grills — Wood-pellet grills with a controller: temperature range, hopper size and Wi-Fi.
- Smokers — A smoker cooks at 225 to 275 °F for hours with wood smoke passing over the food.
- Kamado & ceramic grills — A kamado is a thick ceramic egg with a charcoal fire at the bottom and a grate above it.
How the site is funded
Links to Amazon on this site are affiliate links. If you buy through one we earn a commission at no cost to you. The affiliate disclosure explains what that does and does not influence.
Corrections
If a specification in a review is wrong — the manufacturer restated it, the listing changed, or we misread it — it is worth more to us to know than to look right. The contact page says what makes a correction actionable.
Your data
What this site collects about you, which is very little, is set out in the privacy policy.