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Best BBQ And Grilling Gifts Ideas For $501 And Up
Published On: 10/27/2020 Last Modified: 6/8/2025
Looking for a very special gift for your favorite BBQer and griller? Here is a guide to our favorite smokers, grills, and accessories over $500. Each reviewed product has received either an AmazingRibs.com gold and platinum medal review and we have provided links as to where to buy them.
Blackstone Pizza Oven With Stand Review And Rating
Many backyard pizza ovens suffer the same problem: they don’t get hot enough, and they heat unevenly. Blackstone’s solution? Pizza stones on the bottom and top help set the Blackstone Pizza Oven With Stand apart from others in the space.
Traeger Ironwood And Ironwood XL Review And Rating
The Traeger mid-size Ironwood and large Ironwood XL are upgraded versions of their Ironwood 650 and Ironwood 885. The new Ironwood includes some of the same features we liked in the older models plus a few upgrades along with a more modest MSRP.
Weber Genesis EPX-335 Smart Gas Grill Review And Rating
Weber's popular Genesis Gas Grills are a perfect option for those who have grown tired of constantly replacing cheap entry-level gassers and want better quality, performance, and durability. Weber's 2022 models are, in many ways, the best Genesis lineup yet. Read our full review of the Genesis EPX-335 Smart Gas Grill here.NEW
Weber Searwood 600 Pellet Grill Review And Rating
Searwood is an all-in-one pellet smoker/grill that produces great smoke flavor, aroma, and color whether low and slow ribs at 225°F or sizzling steaks at 600°F.
Hasty Bake Legacy 131 Review And Rating
We love Hasty Bake! The clever and unique design features enable you to easily grill, smoke or roast whatever you like. Legacy easily wins our top Platinum Medal.
Ñuke Puma Santa Maria Grill Review And Rating
The Ñuke Puma is a Santa Maria style grill made by hand in Argentina. It burns wood or charcoal and the removable V-shaped grill grates are adjustable from 4 to 23 inches above the coals with Puma's signature crank wheel. This stylish entry into the premium Santa Maria and gaucho grill market also has a front door lined with fire brick and comes with a rolling cart, fire poker, shovel, and enameled cast iron griddle. Read our complete review of this Gold Medal winning grill.
Slow ‘N Sear Deluxe Kamado Review And Rating
Most kamados can't be set up for 2-zone cooking with a hot direct zone and moderate indirect zone. Not the new Slow 'N Sear Deluxe Kamado. Read our review to learn why. Built around Slow 'N Sear's patented Slow ‘N Sear charcoal kettle insert, it is a kamado grill that easily provides low and slow smoking and hot and fast searing simultaneously and wins our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal.
Gozney Arc XL Pizza Oven Review And Rating
If you’re in the market for a well-built, good-looking, plug-and-play outdoor pizza oven that can also roast, sear, and bake a whole lot more than pizza, you could hardly do better than the Gozney Arc XL pizza oven. Read our review to get the whole story.
Ooni Volt 12 Electric Pizza Oven Review And Rating
Ooni's Volt 12 is a well-designed, compact, energy-efficient electric oven that achieves raging hot temps capable of cooking fantastic pizza, steaks, fish, vegetables, and more. After months of cook tests and tinkering, we rated it in comparison to competitive models. Read our review to learn all about Volt 12.
Camp Chef Flat Top Grill 600 Review And Rating
Sometimes you need a big surface area to cook a lot of food at once. Designed to feed a crowd fast and leave 'em smiling, the 600 is the most popular size in Camp Chef's Flat Top Grill line. Remove the griddle top and it becomes a 4-burner gas grill. Read our review to learn why Flat Tops earn our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Gold Medal.
Grilla Pellet Smoker Review And Rating
We always liked Grilla, but the original price seemed steep. We felt a premium was being placed on the cool cosmetics. Read our review because in 2016 Grilla Grills made a substantial price cut. That drew us off the fence and earned Grilla our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Gold Medal.
Green Mountain Grills Ledge (Formerly Daniel Boone) Prime Pellet Smoker Review And Rating
The Green Mountain Grills Ledge Pellet Smoker might be the pellet cooker to show you the pleasures of these machines. It's their most popular model, a mid-size, mid-priced smoker with WiFi, a robust smartphone app, solid all-around performance, and more extras than most in its price range. Read our full review!
Napoleon Prestige P500RSIB Gas Grill Review
This Napoleon Prestige P500RSIB Gas Grill is a sweet looking cooker, built solid with a few nice extras thrown in. We tested and reviewed this quality gasser and awarded our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medal. Stainless steel cook box, cart, doors and side shelves with a heavy gauge steel lid competitive with Weber's Summit.
Napoleon Rogue R425SIB Review And Rating
This Napoleon Rogue R425SIB gas grill is a smaller, slightly stripped down, lower cost version of one of our favorites in Napoleon's more expensive Prestige line. Read our review of this quality gas grill to learn why it receives our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medal. We love the infrared sear burner mounted on the left side shelf.
Weber Spirit II E-310 Gas Grill Review And Rating
The Weber Spirit II E-310 is easy to use, easy to clean and backed up by the best warranty and customer service in the business. Read our review to find out more about why this popular, tried and true, work horse of a grill continues to win our AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal Award.
Portable Kitchen PK360 Grill and Smoker Review
The Portable Kitchen PK360 takes all the great elements of the classic 1952 PK, improves the design, beefs up construction and delivers one beautiful charcoal grill. We tested and reviewed this classic, versatile charcoal grill and gave it our Best Value AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal. The rectangular shape makes it a 2-zone king.
Karubecue C-60 Pit Review And Rating
The Karubecue C-60 produces perfect smokey. This brilliant design enables a novice to smoke meat like a wizened Texas pit boss, earning our Platinum Medal.
Kamado Joe Classic II 18″ Review And Rating
Read our review of Kamado Joe's Classic II 18”. It's a well-crafted ceramic cooker that presents strong competition to other 18" models in the premium priced market with a number of remarkable upgrades that exemplify the elegance and innovation that are hallmarks of Kamado Joe. We give it our top Best Value AmazingRibs.com Platinum Medal.
Burch Barrel Firepit And Grill Review And Rating
Our Burch Barrel Firepit and Grill l Review shows it's not your Grandpa's Cowboy Cooker. It blends an open fire camp grill with a vertical lift Argentine style mechanism. It is well-built, versatile, unique and a ton of fun to use. That's why it wins our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Gold Medal.
Weber Summit Kamado E6 And S6 Charcoal Grill Review And Rating
Iconic Weber Kettles are some of the most popular and respected backyard grills in the world. Those who've mastered a kettle can do everything on it from grill a steak to bake a cake and these Summit Kamados are kettles on steroids. If you like your Weber Kettle, you'll love their Kamados. We give these Weber Summit Kamado Charcoal Grills our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Platinum Medals!Related articles
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