About

What We Do

We built Avid Griller so that you could have all of your grill questions answered. That means you’ll find:

  • Grill reviews
  • Other reviews on grill products such as thermometers, covers and gadgets
  • Clear and concise grill comparisons
  • Lists of our top picks of Best Grills and more
  • Current and informative grill news

Our Process

Based on our experience, we don’t believe there is a universal best grill. There are so many factors to consider. Things like your budget, your space, the placement, the food you like, your cooking style and your other personal preferences all add up to make a specific set of requirements just for you.

To put together our grill reviews, we spend quality time actually researching and cooking with these grills, smokers, thermometers and other equipment, testing them for various important qualities. All of it is designed to help you find the perfect food.

From figuring out how to buy a grill, suggesting ones that work for different folks, or breaking down the newest science behind technology and food breakthroughs, we’ve got you.

Committed to Transparency

We want you to know how this site pays for itself and what that does and does not touch. The short version: the money comes from retailers and readers, and none of it moves a score.

How We Make Money

Avid Griller is free to read. When you buy through some of the links on our pages, the retailer pays us a commission. Most of those links go to Amazon, and others go to retailers such as Walmart and BBQGuys. You pay the same price either way.

Our picks are worked out from our scores. Every grill is scored on the same six categories, and our best-of lists and our grill finder rank grills by those scores. What a retailer pays us plays no part in that calculation. You can read how we score every grill.

Donations

If you would like to support our work directly, you can make a donation on Ko-fi. Donations help keep Avid Griller free to read, and they never buy a review or a score.

Free Products

Some makers send us grills to test. Receiving a grill does not mean we will publish a review of it, and we name every maker that has sent us one on our disclosures page.

Amazon Disclosure

Avid Griller is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Meet Our Team

We are a small team of avid grill chefs that work location independent from the US and 2 other countries. If you love grills, barbecue and anything in between, come join us.

Oren De M.
Oren De M.
Founder / Chief Editor

Oren is the founder of Avid Griller and is reviewing grills and other grill products. Oren knows a lot about grills, having tested more than 200 personally. Through his experience, he has developed a straightforward and practical approach to making grill recommendations.

Oren does not believe there is one best grill for everyone and that a more tailored approach is often the most helpful to grill shoppers. He notes what considerations people should make when looking at a particular type of grill.

His extensive knowledge of grills, and the grill and barbecue industry, has garnered him some media attention. Thanks to his expertise, Oren has tested countless approaches to improving his own grilling quality.

When he isn't reviewing grills, Oren loves to do tech-related product management, play classical guitar, read fiction and non-fiction, and travel.

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David Green
David Green
Food Safety Advisor / Managing Editor

David spends a lot of time thinking about grilled food. He is a World Champion Pitmaster and a certified Health and Safety Manager and currently serves as the Food Safety Advisor and Managing Editor for Avid Griller. He handles the safety operations of the site. He's creating guidelines for how to review the different grill types and developing processes for ensuring grill testing are safe. You'll also see him in plenty of reviews, from thermometers to grill reviews, and the occasional How-To's as well.

Since joining Avid Griller, he has reviewed more than 150 grills and written over 200 cooking-related stories for the site. He probably knows more about charcoals than any one person should.

While he spends plenty of time keeping us safe and reviewing reviews about grills, David credits his two young sons with his inability to really eat the food he grills. When he's not writing about grilling (or trying to grill), David can be found in the kitchen testing out new barbecue sauce recipes!

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