About Us
About ElectricGrill.com
We are the independent review site for people who have actually plugged the grill in.
01 / Mission
Our mission
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. Every grill on this site is one we have plugged in, preheated, cooked on, cleaned, and lived with — usually for a full season. When we say the Ninja Woodfire hits 500°F in 11 minutes on a 60°F morning, it is because we stood there with a stopwatch and an infrared thermometer. When we say a grate is hard to clean, it is because we cleaned it.
02 / What We Do
What we do
We review electric grills the way our readers use them. That means testing in the places real people cook: a Brooklyn walk-up balcony with a propane ban in the lease, a suburban Ohio patio in February, a California apartment complex where the HOA measures smoke output with a complaint form. We cook through rain, cold snaps, and 95°F humidity, because a grill that only works on a perfect May evening is not a grill you own — it is a grill you rent from your own garage.
Over 200+ hours of cooking went into the current rankings. We run the same ribeye test, the same preheat stopwatch, and the same cleanup protocol on every model. We throw out our own first impressions if the grill changes our mind by cook number ten, 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.
03 / Revenue
How we make money
We earn a commission when you buy through our Amazon links. That commission does not change what we recommend — our picks are based on testing, not affiliate rates. When a manufacturer offers us free products, we accept with the explicit understanding that we will publish honest reviews, including negative ones. Several brands have asked us to remove unfavorable reviews. We have not, and we never will.
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.