Best BBQ And Grilling Gifts Ideas Between $201 And $500
Need a great gift for the BBQ lover in your life? Here are several options ranging in price from $201 to $500. These are all Platinum or Gold Medal winners, including everything from a propane smoker to an outdoor pizza oven. Click the links to read our full reviews and check prices.
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John “Spinaker” Bowlsby
We are happy with Camp Chef's Deluxe Outdoor Oven performance and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for an effective, easy-to-use, combo stove/oven for camping. Read our review before your next outing.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Weber aims to capitalize on the rising popularity of backyard griddling with their line of stand-alone griddles, griddle inserts, and various griddle accessories. In recent years Weber had a couple high profile rollouts that, uncharacteristically, seemed forced into the market before ready but this one is a different story. Find out why with our full review.
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Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Editorial Director
We were skeptical about a low-cost pizza oven that claims to cook Neapolitan pizza in less than 2 minutes at temps over 930ยบF. Would this oven perform as advertised? Read our review to find out.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
The Green Mountain Grills TREK Prime is a portable pellet cooker that is small and light enough to use for tailgating but large and sturdy enough for the back patio, too. Well-constructed and with excellent documentation, it is a great choice for condos or camp sites and earns our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medal.
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Brigit Binns, AmazingRibs.com Culinary Content Contributor
From the makers of highly popular fire pits comes an innovative entry into the outdoor pizza oven market -- The Solo Pi Prime pizza Oven. Read our complete hands-on review.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Making quality pizzas at home has never been easier thanks to the growing number of pizza ovens now available. Check out our review of one of the more price accessible options -- the Gozney Roccbox.
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Dave Joachim, AmazingRibs.com Editorial Director
This compact cooker reliably turns out several styles of pizza as well as baked potatoes, roasted vegetables, broiled fish, seared pork tenderloins and steaks and chops, pot roasts, braises, the โol Easter leg โo lamb, and even low โn slow barbecue like smoked pork shoulder for a surprisingly low price. Read our review to get all the details.
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Meathead, AmazingRibs.com Founder And BBQ Hall of Famer
Cook a turkey or prime rib or pork loin properly and you're going to end up with a lot of juice on your cutting board. If yours has only grooves, it's going to overflow and ruin the table cloth.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Weber Master-Touch 22" Charcoal Grill is a feature rich version of the basic Original Kettle 22". Master-Touch comes standard with Weber's Gourmet BBQ Cooking System which adapts to a Wok, Pizza Stone or Griddle. Read our review nd learn why you can't beat AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal winning Weber kettles.
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Big Jim Maivald, Former AmazingRibs.com CTO
Magma created a stainless steel grill that could survive the harsh saltwater climate found along shores and harbors. Although you wonโt be using their products for any BBQ competitions or smoking, they are perfect for harbor cookouts and can even produce a decent char when desired.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Slow 'N Sear Kettle Grill is mighty nice, but very similar to the Weber Performer, which is not a bad thing. If you're in the market for a new charcoal kettle grill, read our review because this one may be for you. It's definitely worth consideration. We award the Slow 'N Sear Kettle Grill our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medal.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Pit Barrel Junior is a smaller version of the popular Pit Barrel Cooker charcoal smoker. Both are designed to produce a cooking environment in which one temperature fits all. This AmazingRibs.com Gold Medal Award winning smoker is one of the more impressive products we've tested and reviewed.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Vertical gas smokers are to easy to use. With Masterbuilt's ThermoTemp line, smoking on gas just got easier. Masterbuilt successfully offers groundbreaking use of thermostatic control on a gas smoker at an affordable price. We tested and reviewed their large XL model and award ThermoTemp our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal.
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Jerod Broussard
Oklahoma Joe's Bronco is a low cost barrel smoker with hinged lid, gasket, side shelf, wheels, grilling capabilities, adjustable dampers, and ability to smoke low and slow up to 12 hours on one load of charcoal. Whatโs not to love? Read our review for the details on why we award this relatively low cost phenom our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal!
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
If you need a large portable gasser for camping, tailgating or just grilling around town on the weekend, Traveler is a very good choice. There are both less expensive and more expensive cart models, placing Traveler somewhere in a mid-price range. Quality construction and Weber's excellent customer service merit every penny. Read our review to find out why we give Traveler our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Gold Medal.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Self described as "small but mighty" the new PKGO is beautiful, elegant, clever, effective, and versatile, yet a little pricey for a small, portable charcoal grill. Nonetheless, with PKGO, you get what you pay for, and that means top quality. We say, "Go Man Go", to PKGO and award it our top, Platinum Medal.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
FireBoard Drive 2 is an updated version of a well-received product that sets the standard for performance and functionality in the wireless food thermometer/thermostatic controller class.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
Read our review of the new ThermoWorks Signals, a four-channel Bluetooth/Wi-Fi-enabled remote thermometer with four probes, a Gold Medal Winner.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
The Meater Pro XL is a wireless meat thermometer that features four probes, each of which has five separate temperature sensors. How does it perform? Check out our full review.
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Bill McGrath, AmazingRibs.com Chief Thermometer Reviewer
Read our complete review of the updated Airprobe2 for use with the Tappecue Touch that exhibits excellent accuracy in a wireless "smart" thermometer probe.
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