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Find your perfect grill.

We test pellet grills, smokers, pizza ovens, and griddles the hard way — real cooks, real thermometers, real fuel bills — then hand you the math to buy once and buy right.

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The Pitmaster’s Toolkit

Answers, not guesswork.

Four free calculators built from thousands of real cooks. No signup, no fluff — type in your numbers, get your answer.

Pellet Cost-Per-Cook Calculator

Your true cost per cook — and per year — across pellet, gas, and charcoal. The number nobody else will show you.

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Smoker Fuel Estimator

How much charcoal, pellet, or wood your next brisket actually needs — dialed to your cooker, temp, and cook time.

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Pizza Dough Calculator

Flour, water, salt, yeast — weighed to the gram for your oven, your hydration, and your party size.

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Which Grill Is Right For You?

Six questions about your space, budget, and cooking style. One honest recommendation at the end.

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Head to head

Latest showdowns.

Two cookers enter. We cook on both, log the data, and name a winner — with the receipts to prove it.

Pellet grill smoking on a deck at golden hour VS
Pellet grills

Traeger Ironwood 650 vs 885

Verdict: The 650 wins for most backyards — same smoke, same app, $400 less grill to heat.
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Pizza baking inside a flaming outdoor pizza oven VS
Pizza ovens

Ooni Koda 16 vs Karu 16

Verdict: Karu takes flavor with real wood fire; Koda takes weeknights with push-button gas.
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Smash burgers sizzling on a flat-top griddle VS
Griddles

Blackstone 28″ vs 36″

Verdict: Cooking for four? The 28″ saves you $100 and a square foot of patio.
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Buying guides, by category.

Pick your cooker first. Then geek out on the gear that makes it sing.

Pellet grill with smoke
14 guides

Pellet Grills

 Charcoal grill with glowing embers at dusk
11 guides

Offset Smokers

 Outdoor pizza oven with flames
9 guides

Pizza Ovens

 Griddle with smash burgers
8 guides

Griddles

 Kamado grill with glowing charcoal
7 guides

Kamado Grills

 BBQ thermometers and tools flat lay
16 guides

Thermometers & Gear
Fuel economics

We ran the numbers on 1,200 cooks.

Pellets, propane, charcoal, lump, wood — what does an hour of smoke actually cost you? Our fuel lab weighs every bag, logs every cook, and publishes true cost-per-cook for every major cooker type, updated quarterly.

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Based on national average fuel prices, Q3 2026. Your mileage — and your brisket — may vary.

Average cost per cook

Four-hour cook, 275°F, all-in fuel cost.

Propane (gas grill)$0.85
Wood pellets$1.90
Charcoal (kettle)$2.75
The Sunday Smoke Signal

One tip. One deal. Every Sunday.

A short email with one grilling technique worth knowing and one hand-picked gear deal worth buying. Read by 40,000+ backyard cooks.