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.

Ninja’s New Grill Promises to Griddle, Smoke, Bake, and More—I Tested It for Months to See If It’s Any Good

I Tested 8 Ice Packs for Coolers—The Winners Will Keep Your Drinks Cold for Days

The Solo Stove Pi Prime Pizza Oven Turned Me Into a Bonafide Pizzaiolo

This Weber Gas Grill Makes Me Want to Cook Outside All Year Long

I Tested 6 Fire Pits to Find the Best Ones for Casual Outdoor Hangouts

This Traeger Pellet Grill Made Me Fall in Love With Grilling

The Best Portable Grills, So You Can Grill Wherever You Want

This Weber Insert Transforms My Gas Grill Into a Griddle

Gozney Just Launched a Portable Pizza Oven—I Made Dozens of Pizzas to See If It's Any Good

Ooni’s New Pizza Oven Is Absolutely Massive—and It Makes Incredible Pizza

To Find the Best Picnic Blankets, I Used Them in the Park and at the Beach

I Tested 9 Marshmallow Roasting Sticks to Find Ones for Stress-Free S’mores and Hot Dogs
How to Use Your Grill Settings for Better, Crisper Vegetables

I Tested 8 Grill Baskets to Find the Best Ones for Grilling Vegetables, Seafood, and More

I Tested 8 Coolers for Weeks to Find the Best, Most-Insulated Ones for Outdoor Adventure

Our Favorite Flat-Top Grills Make Outdoor Cooking Wicked Fun

11 Deals on Tried-and-True Grilling Accessories to Grab Before Your Next Cookout, Starting at $8

The Best Way to Clean Your Grill, According to Experts

I Made a Dozen Pizzas (and Calzones) to Find Out If the Gozney Arc Could Bring the Heat

I Burned Through 78 Pounds of Charcoal to Find the Best Chimney Starters

After 64 Hours of Testing, We Found the 2 Best Propane Smokers

What You Need to Know Before Buying a Smoker

We Found the Best Electric Smokers After Cooking Almost 100 Pounds of Meat

I Tested 11 Grill Presses—5 Made Perfect, Crispy-Edged Smash Burgers

We Put 21 Wireless Grill Thermometers to the Test—These 6 Were the Best

If You Love Charcoal Grilling, You’ll Love Konro Grills

Pack It Up! This Is the Best Camping Cooking Gear for Outdoor Adventures

The Best Weber Grills for Grilling, Smoking, and Searing, According to Our Tests

We Found the 4 Best Soft Coolers By Going Through 45 Pounds of Ice

The Best Lump Charcoal for Grilling, According to Our Extensive, Very Smoky Tests

I Tested 8 Pairs of Grill Gloves to Find Ones That Could Take the Heat

I Tested 9 Grill Brushes to Find the Best Ones for Cleaning Your Grill

The 5 Best Portable Gas Grills, According to Our Char-Grilled, Smoky Tests

After Testing 9 Grill Tongs, I Found Three That Gripped and Flipped With Ease

We Made a Dozen Pies in Ooni’s First-Ever Electric Pizza Oven—It Was Awesome

The 9 Best Portable Charcoal Grills Let You Make Dinner on the Road

The Ooni Karu 12 Pizza Oven Is Lightweight and Versatile

I Smoked Over 20 Pounds of Meat to See If the Traeger Ironwood XL Is Worth $2000

Which Traeger Grill Should You Buy? We Tested (Almost) All of Them

Which Ooni Pizza Oven Should You Buy? We Compared Them All

I've Used the Solo Stove Bonfire for Years—It's My Go-To Outdoor Fire Pit

How to Make Great Pizza in an Outdoor Pizza Oven

The 5 Best Charcoal Grills for Every Budget and Grilling Style, According to Our Extensive Tests

To Find the Best Gas Grills, We Spent More Than a Month Testing 20 of Them
The GrillGrate: An Upgrade Almost Every Gas Grill Needs

The 8 Best Outdoor Pizza Ovens for Making Beautiful, Wood-Fired Pies Without Leaving Your Backyard

Outdoor Wok Burners Are the Key to Restaurant-Style Stir-Fries

The 6 Best Kamado Grills for Every Type of Cook, According to Our Detailed Tests

If You Own a Charcoal Grill, Then You Need a Chimney Starter
How to Set Up Your Grill for Better Skewers, Kebabs, and Yakitori

The Best Skewers for All Your Food-on-a-Stick Needs

We Tested 24 Pellet Grills by Cooking 200-Plus Pounds of Chicken Wings

I Tested Pizza Peels by Making 20 Pizzas—The Best Ones Slung Perfect Pies

How to Keep Your Grill Clean
Cook Your Meat in a Beer Cooler: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Sous Vide Hack
Why You Really Should Buy a Smoker
The $7,000 Pizza Oven You Don't Need (But Really Wish You Had)

For the Best Stir-Fry, Fire Up the Grill | The Food Lab
The Pizza Lab: Combine The KettlePizza and the Baking Steel For The Ultimate Home Pizza Setup
The Pizza Lab: In Which We Get The KettlePizza Insert Working And Meet Its Maker

Sear and Char! We Rounded up the Best Grilling Tools and Gear
Do Grill Pans Actually Mimic Grilling? | Ask The Food Lab
The Pizza Lab: Is The New KettlePizza Short Model Worth The Upgrade?
The Pizza Lab: We Test The New and Improved KettlePizza Grill Insert