Best New Grills and Accessories to Upgrade Your BBQ This Summer – Men’s Journal

Every year theres a crop of new grills and tools to up the ante on your BBQ game. We see advancements in pellet burning, automatic temperature control, and wireless monitoring that make cooking your favorite meals easier, tastier, and more enjoyable.

And the accessories that go along with backyard barbecuing arent just getting smarter, theyre also continuously being refined and redesigned. Take a look at what we think are the best barbecue grills and tools on the market for spring 2022.

You cant deny the convenience of grilling with gas, and Char-Broils Cruise might be the most convenient cooker of all. Its the first gas grill to let you set and hold heat like an oven to maintain specific temps beyond the standard low, medium, high. And a max-heat mode zooms to 700 degrees for the perfect seared steak. But our favorite feature? The auto clean mode that cleans and shuts off the grill at the end of each grilling session. Convenient, right?

[$699; charbroil.com]

Pellet grills smoky versatility has won over many a grill master, but most wont let you get a true flame-broiled fix. Enter the Camp Chef Apex. This unique hybrid combines the perfection of pellets with the blaze of gas, all in the same main chamber (easily switchable with a button). Add a gasketed lid, double-wall construction and internal lighting, and youll never go back to a one-dimensional grill.

[Available June 1, from $1,599; campchef.com]

Gas might be easy, but purists love charcoal, and Oklahoma Joes Blackjack Kettle is the Cadillac of charcoal grills. The superior build includes a porcelain-coated fire bowl and lid for increased durability, and an adjustable smokestack and air intake for top-notch temperature control. The 363 square inches of cooking space is big enough for a dozen burgers; and smart features like a hinged lid, a side table for food prep, and a towel bar for hanging tools increase usability.

[$329; oklahomajoes.com]

Get serious enough about backyard culinary pursuits and youll find your way to barrel smoking, a simple system for cooking inside a chamber of 360-degree heat. Pit Barrels Classic Drum Cooker gives you everything you need to start smoking in an 18-gauge steel drum lined with porcelain. Layer the bottom of the drum with charcoal and wood chunks, then hang meat or veggies from the rack.

[From $400; pitbarrelcooker.com]

Flip alerts. Thats the beauty of the Connect Smart Grilling Hub, which pairs digital thermometers with an app on your phone, turning any cooker into a smart grill that tells you exactly when to flip your steaks, chicken, brats, etc., then alerts you when your meat has reached the perfect temp. No more cutting or poking the meat to see if its done.

[$130; weber.com]

It doesnt matter how good you are on the grill. You have to be able to see what youre cooking to achieve barbecue beatitude. Enter the Permasteel Grill Lighttwo separate LED lights (each containing nine bulbs) with heavy, magnetic bases that stick to any part of the grill. Adjust the flexible goosenecks to direct 75 lumens at the grate and ogle your perfect, sizzling chops.

[$18; permasteel.net]

The 1-inch-thick Material Angled Board is so pretty, it doubles as a serving tray. One side of the cutting board has grooves to catch juices while slicing, and the other side is smooth for presentation. Choose your wood and finisheither walnut or ebonized white oakeither way, the timber is FSC-certified and sustainably grown and harvested in the U.S.

[$95; materialkitchen.com]

Every barbecue ninja needs a good blade by his side, and Benchmades Station Knife combines the hefty attributes of a chopper with the delicate tip of a slicer to make short work of thick ribs or expertly process slabs of steak. Pull up the online customization website and you can choose between two high-quality steels and finishes (black or polished), laser etching on both sides of the blade, and three durable handle materialsG10, Richlite, or carbon fiber.

[From $280; benchmade.com]

Most guys would think that a spatula is a spatulauntil you wield the FlipFork, which is more of a MacGyver-esque multitool than a ho-hum burger flipper. A sharp knifes edge slices, a blunt edge tenderizes and a protruding prong helps manage all the tricky forking, poking, and flipping required when the flames start jumping. Theres even a bottle opener, too, for grill-side brewskis.

[$26; myflipfork.com]

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Best New Grills and Accessories to Upgrade Your BBQ This Summer - Men's Journal