Grilling and Outdoor Equipment

From barbecue cookbooks and grilling tools to pizza ovens and electric smokers, these equipment picks and guides will help you master your outdoor cooking skills.
a pizza on a pizza peel coming out of a pizza oven
We Made a Dozen Pies in Ooni’s First-Ever Electric Pizza Oven—It Was Awesome
Three portable charcoal grills on a lawn
The Best Portable Charcoal Grills for Every Budget, According to Our Tests
Cooking italian sausage, onions and peppers on the solo stove with the hub and grill grate
We Loved Live-Fire Cooking on the Solo Stove Bonfire—and Now It's 35% Off
the solo stove pi pizza oven
We Tested the Solo Stove Pi Pizza Oven—and Highly Recommend It
The Ooni Karu 12 as it's heating up
The Ooni Karu 12 Pizza Oven Is Lightweight and Versatile—and It’s Now $100 Off
two pellet grills (one black, one bronze) side-by-side
Which Traeger Grill Should You Buy? We Tested (Almost) All of Them
A front-on look at the Ooni Koda 16 with its burner on
Which Ooni Pizza Oven Should You Buy? We Compared Them All
Solo stove bonfire with fire on a patio
We Tested the Solo Stove Bonfire Fire Pit to See if You Should Buy (And Cook On) One
Sliding a charred broccoli rabe pizza onto a serving tray
How to Make Great Pizza in an Outdoor Pizza Oven
three charcoal grills on a patio
The Best Charcoal Grills for Every Budget and Grilling Style, According to Our Rigorous Tests
three gas grills on a patio
The Best Gas Grills, According to Our Ridiculously Rigorous (and Very On-Brand) Testing
a yellow YETI cooler filled with ice and drinks
We Tested 12 Coolers to Find the Best Ones for Parties, Beach Hangs, and Road Trips
Meat and vegetables cooking on the GrillGrate
The GrillGrate: An Upgrade Almost Every Gas Grill Needs
pepperoni and basil pizza made in Roccbox pizza oven
We Tested Backyard Pizza Ovens—Here Are Our 3 Favorites
Food being tossed in wok with flames on an outdoor wok burner
Outdoor Wok Burners Picks
Collage of assorted kamado-style cookers/smokers
The Best Kamado Smokers and Grills
Charcoal being poured into a charcoal grill from a chimney starter
If You Own a Charcoal Grill, Then You Need a Chimney Starter
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How to Set Up Your Grill for Better Skewers, Kebabs, and Yakitori
peppers, mushrooms, scallions, and chicken on skewers on a grill
The Best Skewers, for Whatever You Want to Skewer
the lid of a pellet grill open and it releasing smoke
The Best Pellet Smokers and Grills at Every Price Point
a hand topping mozerella on a pizza on top of a wooden pizza peel
We Tested 10 Pizza Peels—Four Slung Perfect Pies
Cleaning a grill grate with a steel brush.
How to Keep Your Grill Clean
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Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Sous Vide Hack
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Why You Really Should Buy a Smoker
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The $7,000 Pizza Oven You Don't Need (But Really Wish You Had)
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For the Best Stir-Fry, Fire Up the Grill | The Food Lab
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The Pizza Lab: Combine The KettlePizza and the Baking Steel For The Ultimate Home Pizza Setup
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The Pizza Lab: In Which We Get The KettlePizza Insert Working And Meet Its Maker
A person adding charcoal to a charcoal grill
The Essential Grilling Equipment You Need to Get You Started
Do Grill Pans Actually Mimic Grilling? | Ask The Food Lab
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The Pizza Lab: Is The New KettlePizza Short Model Worth The Upgrade?
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The Pizza Lab: We Test The New and Improved KettlePizza Grill Insert
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Introducing the Serious Eats Edition Baking Steel and KettlePizza Backyard Pizza Oven Kit
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Equipment: Char-Broil The Big Easy Oil-Less Turkey Fryer
Barrel Oven Fever
A person using a chimney starter to pour hot coals into a charcaol grill
The Differences Between Gas and Charcoal Grills
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My Pizza Oven: Mark Wilkie, Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn
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My Pizza Oven: Timothy Paul Perry Converts Wall Oven to Propane-Burning Pizza-Cooker
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Book Corner: 6 Great Barbecue and Grilling Books