First, there's no one best girl that can smoke, add texture and flavor
with the best rotisserie that you can turn on from an app on your phone.
Kalamazoo with its hybrid drawer with wood
and charcoal for flavor, along with 25,000 BTU burners, is the closest,
but it starts at around twelve thousand dollars.
So it's confusing. You have a number of different options
in pellet, charcoal, gas and programs cooking.
What do you buy?
Your very first question should be how do you like to grill?
Knowing how you like to grill will
determine what type of grill is right for you.
This video, you'll learn the best grills to buy, whether you like to smoke sear
roast by rotisserie or throw a couple of burgers on the grill now and then.
Each grill has its ranks and drawbacks.
Let's look at the different types
of grills and see if we can match it to the way you cook, or like to cook.
Pellet grills,
give you flavor from indirect convection heat without flare ups.
You can also customize the taste with different types of flavor pellets.
They're perfect for people who like the low and slow type of cooking,
like a brisket cooked over six hours at low temperatures.
Wi-Fi advance so you can control pellet in your phone through an app.
However, they cannot reach the heat of gas
grills that only five five fifty versus 900 degrees for other gas grills.
It's an oven designed for the outside.
You can't throw a few burgers on your
pellet and have it cooked in a few minutes.
You also have to add pellets every time you cook and clean as well.
If you like to smoke or slow cook,
you may like a pellet grill, but don't buy a pellet for speed.
Charcoal adds flavor and texture because you can reach higher temperatures like
a gas grill. You could sear in charcoal as well.
However, grilling with charcoal can be a chore.
It's not instantly hot like gas and takes significantly longer to heat.
You have to add charcoal and move the ash.
It's not as easy to control as a gas grill or as
precise. Charcoal is for true barbecue lovers
with the heat to char and sear, plus the added texture.
Gas grills are fast and hot at nine hundred degrees and easy to clean.
Nine hundred degrees is also self-cleaning, so it's the easiest to clean.
You have infrared sear zones in many grills to precisely see your meats.
Rotisserie is even and easy. But gas grill
competitors will always say, what does gas taste like?
It does lack the flavor and texture of charcoal or pellet styles.
One of my friends is a professional grandmaster.
He competes in state barbecue competitions.
His barbecue is custom for charcoal and gas for speed, flavor and texture.
Kalamazoo's the closest to a grill of this
caliber, without question this is the best grill you can buy. Despite being the best,
it's also the most expensive grill sold starting at twelve thousand dollars.
So let's look at a few different types
of grills to see what might be the best for you.
We've tried every competitive grill brand over the last 15 years, Weber works.
It's reliable and last. The Spirit is the least expensive,
starting in $379. It has decent capacity, 450 square inches and twenty six thousand
five hundred BTU output. It's a good grill if you're cooking a few dogs and burgers.
Kalamazoo is made to order only. The grill is deeper than any on the market,
providing a natural convection system for more evenly cooked foods.
The other main difference is the hybrid
drawer, where you can use charcoal and or wood. Its the only grill with the speed
of professional gas and the flavor and texture of charcoal and wood.
If you love to grill,
this is the best on the market.
You can even customize the grates based on the food you're grilling.
It's also available in marine grade steel if you live by the ocean.
This is the only grill designed to withstand the elements.
Weber completely redesigned their popular
Genesis three years ago with the GS4. This includes a new first strike
ignition, flavorizer bars and better grease management. Weber
relaunched the Genesis as a three and four burner grill exclusively.
Of all the grills sold by us in last year, and there have been many, Weber is the only grill
durable enough to last outside. The difference between the Genesis II
are the side burners, stainless-steel versus porcelain grates,
sear burners, and flavorizer bars as well as a finished bottom cabinet.
The grill is larger than the Spirit
at thirty nine thousand to forty eight thousand BTU and six hundred sixty nine to
eight hundred eighty eight square inches of grilling.
Lynx started the whole professional grill segment and is
known for its powerful trident shaped burner's. Two years ago,
they changed their burner from solid cast brass to a weatherproof ceramic burners.
It's not just weatherproof.
The ports are designed to reduce flare ups by being on the bottom.
The sear element is also variable from three hundred to a thousand degrees.
So you can easily sear more delicate items like fruits and veggies and meats.
Just be careful. You can over sear as well.
The giant commercial supplier meyer is behind
the Hestan Grill. Already is the best looking grill available in 12 designer
finishes. Like Lynx, Hestan boasts a BTU output of twenty five thousand BTU per
burner plus twenty five thousand just for Searing.
So it's very powerful.
It has a rotisserie system holding 50
pounds of meat with a variable infrared burner of 12,000 to 18,000 BTU.
You can easily cook the meat on your rotisserie or on the top shelf,
which can cook quickly for a good secondary quick sear burner like Lynx.
The hood will stop where ever you want,
so you can open it slightly to cool down your grill.
Hestan has the thickest diamond grates that retain heat better so you can
effectively sear on every inch of their grills. Between the two grills Lynx as more
options with sear and all gas burners along with smart capability.
Their burner is the most weather resistant.
Hestan has the better rotisserie and rotisserie burner,
thicker grates to retain heat and optional colors.
You have to be careful about buying a product advertised as less expensive
with pro style performance. Most of the time grills have the less
expensive part down, but the pro part is lacking.
You have to look at the fit, finish, burners and grates before you buy.
That said, the aspire by Hestan and Lynx Sedona are similar to their regular lines
for 2,000 dollar less versus 23,000 only 2000 BTU less than their
regular line with a sear burner of twenty three thousand
BTU. It doesn't have diamond cut grates, and only nine colors instead of 12.
Aspire is similar to Hestan's regular line
but has less power per burner and not as powerful as the infrared burners.
I like these low level professional grills.
You can lose 2000 BTU output, the sear
and rotisserie are basic, but the price is much less starting at thirty four.
Twenty nine for the Lynx
Sedona.
I used to cook on the $149 Weber charcoal Smokey Joe.
The food was incredibly flavorful, but it was small.
You also have to rearrange the food due to a smaller size.
Lighting a charcoal grill can be challenging as well.
However, charcoal should be considered because of its unique taste.
The Weber Summit Kamado is a large
Charcoal grill and has a small propane tank for quicker ignition.
The downside to charcoal is filling in and removing the ash.
You also have to be more mindful when
cooking with charcoal because heat can vary.
But the flavor is amazing.
Grilling with wood fired pellets are suitable for low and slow cooking
with the ability to add flavor. They are advertised as grills,
so the expectations fast.
But at five hundred degrees, max, it's not possible
in a pellet type grill.
The Timberlane 1300 has better construction, so you don't lose a ton
of heat when open like their less expensive models.
Their Wi-Fi or WiFIRE system allows you to monitor the grill through an app
on your phone. Traeger is a popular, fast growing company,
sometimes the customer service is a bit lacking.
You may want to consider buying it from retail.
And I rarely say this,
but in this one instance you see a demo, talk to someone and quickly deal
with problems and see if a pellet is right for you.
Smart grills do more than tell you when
to flip a burger. App driven grilling has been around since 2016 and as it evolved ever
since. You can access recipes then grill to that recipe automatically.
Lynx and Weber at the forefront of smart technology.
Both use different systems.
Let's look at both.
As I said, Lynx was first. Their
my chef system operates by using
temperature sensors and gas control valves
to keep temperature levels constant myself.
It'll send you a text alert when
the burger is cooked or when you need the burger flipped.
Have a recipe? MyChef will remember and cook it automatically.
The grill will also automatically shut off after 30 minutes of inactivity.
The ethics mark rules are similar to I
grew up functionality launched in twenty eighteen, they work off probes to set
temperature alerts to flip a burger and move your food as well.
So what is your style of grilling? Do cook for longer periods,
do you want speed, texture and flavor?
Each grill type has its advantages and drawbacks. Buy the grill best suited
to your style, whether it's a gas, pellet or a charcoal grill.
But unlike appliances, grills, really differ in performance.
When you spend three thousand for new
grill, always see a demo of how it performs.
Click the link in the description below
to download our free barbecue buying guide and to learn more about popular units
with in-depth comparisons of all the most
popular brands answers to frequently asked
questions and buying strategies to save money.
Thanks for watching.