5 Best Gas Grills of 2024, According to Experts

For even cooking without flareups, you just can’t beat the Weber Genesis, whether you’re making quick-cooking items like and brats or slow smoking a leg of lamb. It has a special sear burner to give your T-bones a delicious crusty exterior without burning them. On the stainless-steel grates, you can cook about 25 hamburgers at once. A warming rack gives you a place to burgers warm or heat up the buns.

This grill isn’t cheap but in addition to offering top notch performance, it comes with lots of extras. On each side there’s a work table and one has a burner to use for melting butter, warming up sauces, or frying up some bacon. Underneath there’s a cabinet to stash your mitts and paper towels. It sports tool hooks, a warming rack, a thermometer in the lid, and a gauge to give you an idea if the gas is running low. The Genesis works with Wi-Fi, so you can check cooking temperatures and times and even the gas level on the grill or on your iPhone. You can set it to beep you in the hammock or the laundry room when the London broil is perfectly medium rare. For easy cleanup, you can access the grease pan from the front of the grill.

The Genesis has a stainless-steel finish and is also available in a natural gas grill design.

This Spirit gives you the quality and performance that Weber is known for at a more moderate price. While it’s smaller than the Genesis, there’s still room on the porcelain enamel cast iron grates for twenty burgers, more than enough for a family get together. And just as on the pricier Weber, you get good control of the heat to get food with appetizing grill marks that’s completely cooked through but still moist and tender.

On the Spirit, there’s a lot of convenient features like side tables, a warming rack, tool hooks, a thermometer in the hood, a gas gauge, and a storage shelf under the grill. The grease pan is easy to reach and empty. However, there’s no side burner for heating up the sides. This model is only available in black but a version that connects to natural gas is offered.

This is about as little as you can pay for a generously sized grill that will give good cooking results whether you’re cooking a hearty rib eye or delicate seafood. It can handle about 20 patties at once for those times when the after-the-game party is at your house. As the grates are made of cast iron coated with porcelain enamel, they’ll hold in heat to give those burgers distinct grill marks.

The Nexgrill has a sideburner for sautéing mushrooms to top the steaks. On the stainless-steel hood, there’s a thermometer and inside there’s a warming rack. However, you won’t find any tool hooks or storage space under the grill to stash your gear. While the grease pan is easy to access, it can only be removed from the rear of the grill and you may find it takes a bit of elbow grease to keep the stainless-steel hood looking spiffy, but it's worth it for the affordable price tag.

With the Cuisinart you can expand your outdoor cooking options. It comes with a cast iron griddle for frying eggs, bacon, or melted cheese sandwiches or making your famous smashed burgers. It also comes in handy for sautéing small items like veggies or shrimp that tend to fall through the grates. On the side of the grill there are hooks to hang the griddle when it’s not being used. A smoker tube is included that holds wood chips for infusing items like a turkey breast or a slab of ribs with smoky flavor. The porcelain enamel cast iron grates are ample enough to accommodate 20 to 25 hamburgers, depending on their size.

There’s a window in the hood of the grill so you can check to make sure your chicken legs or pork chops aren’t getting charred before they’re done without opening the lid and losing heat. Just be sure to keep the glass clean because once it gets black, it’s hard to scrape off the burnt-on gunk. On both sides of the grill, you’ll find side tables to rest your tools and in one there’s a burner for keeping a glaze or basting sauce warm. Other extras include a thermometer in the hood and a warming rack for heating the buns.

If your backyard is party central, you’ll love this huge, yet reasonably priced grill. With 6 burners it gives you room to cook up to 32 patties at once. Reviewers report that it cooks evenly both on high heat for weekday chicken breasts or tuna steaks and low and slow for weekend projects like smoking a pork shoulder to shred for pulled pork sandwiches or a whole side of salmon.

There’s a cabinet under the grill surface to contain the tank, making it easy to access the drip pan from the front, and giving you some space to stash your equipment. Tool hooks are one thing that’s missing on this grill. It does however have side tables, a side burner, a temperature gauge, and a warming rack, all of which are helpful if you do a lot of outdoor cooking.