No hype and no sponsored placements. Honest picks and the real trade-offs on the grills, smokers, and BBQ gear worth your money, from a backyard pitmaster who has burned enough briskets to know.
Pellet grills live and die by three things: how well the controller holds temperature, how much cook space is on…
Gas grills come down to four things: build quality, heat control, usable cook space, and whether the price matches the…
A charcoal grill earns its keep on build quality, heat retention, and how well it lets a cook manage two-zone…
Electric smokers trade the hands-on fire management of a stick burner for plug-in convenience, and that trade-off defines everything. What…
Offset smokers live and die by steel thickness, firebox design, and how well the cook chamber holds heat. A reverse-flow…
Kamado grills live and die by three things: how well the shell holds heat, how precisely the vents control temperature,…
A meat thermometer is the single piece of gear that keeps good cooks from guessing and bad cooks from poisoning…
A grill tool set lives or dies on three things: steel that won't flex and dump a brisket into the…
Wood pellets live and die by two things: what wood actually went into them and how dry they are. Wet…
Wade Hollis is a backyard pitmaster out of central Texas with about fifteen years on the smoker and the grill. He has worn out pellet grills, an offset stick-burner, a kamado, and more than one cheap gas grill that rusted out too soon. He reviews… How we review »