About Us
About ElectricGrill.com
The grilling almanac — the independent review site that does the spec-sheet and owner-review homework so you don't have to.
01 / Mission
Our mission
ElectricGrill covers grilling for the digital age. Smart thermometers that pair over Bluetooth, pellet-electric hybrids that produce real smoke without a propane tank, Wi-Fi-connected grills that let you watch an overnight shoulder from bed. The modern kitchen has crossed a threshold — plug-in appliances now outperform the gas-and-flame tools they replaced, and the buyer for a 2026 grill looks almost nothing like the buyer for a 2016 one. We write for that buyer: an apartment renter with a 4×6 balcony, a homeowner replacing a ten-year-old propane rig, a parent who wants fewer fire risks and more data from their patio cook.
Electric grills used to be a joke — glorified hotplates that browned a hot dog if you were patient and squinted. That changed in 2022 when the Ninja Woodfire, Weber Lumin, and a wave of serious competitors brought real heat, real smoke, and real build quality to the category. For the first time, an apartment renter on a 4×6 balcony could sear a ribeye the way a gas griller does on a suburban patio.
But the buying process got worse, not better. Amazon reviews are gamed by incentivized reviewers who mail the grill back after one cook. Manufacturer sites only tell you what to buy, never what to skip. And most "best electric grill" articles you find in a Google search are SEO machines written by contractors who have never unboxed the thing they are recommending — they pull specs from the listing, reshuffle the top 10, and collect their affiliate commission.
We exist to fix that. We don't cook on these grills ourselves — instead we do the research a careful shopper rarely has time for: we read the published specs and manuals, weigh the manufacturer's own ratings, and work through the patterns across thousands of verified-purchase owner reviews. When we say a grill is rated to 600°F, that comes from the manufacturer. When we say a grate is hard to clean, it is because verified owners say so, again and again.
02 / What We Do
What we do
We research electric grills the way our readers use them. That means weighing the evidence for the places real people cook: a walk-up balcony with a propane ban in the lease, a suburban patio in February, an apartment complex where the HOA tracks smoke with a complaint form. Owner reviews tell us how a grill holds up through rain, cold snaps, and humidity, because a grill that only works on a perfect May evening is not one you want to buy.
Every ranking is built from the same materials for every model: the published specs, the manufacturer's ratings, and the consensus across verified-owner reviews, scored against five weighted categories. We follow the evidence even when it overturns the obvious pick, which happens more often than you would think. Our goal is simple: tell you the thing you would wish someone had told you before you spent $600. For the full process, see how we evaluate grills.
03 / Revenue
How we make money
We earn a commission when you buy through our Amazon links, at no extra cost to you. That commission does not change what we recommend — our picks are based on the evidence, not affiliate rates. We do not accept payment for placement or rankings, and a brand's commission rate has no bearing on where its grills land. If the specs and owner reviews point to a cheaper model, the cheaper model wins.
04 / What We Refuse
What we don't do
We don't run paid placements. We don't accept "sponsored rankings." We don't publish "top 10" lists that rotate based on who bid highest this quarter. We don't use fake urgency ("only 2 left!") or manufactured scarcity. We don't write "review" pages that exist only to rank for search terms and funnel clicks to whichever model pays the highest commission. If a cheap grill is the right answer for your situation, the cheap grill wins — even when the premium model would pay us four times more.