Broil King Crown S 440 Review

First Impressions of the Broil King Crown S 440

Broil King’s dimensions tab is oddly unhelpful for a page otherwise this thorough. It prints two sets of numbers and one weight, then labels none of them. The weight is 148.0 lbs. One set reads 46.5 by 53.75 by 24 inches, the other 25.0 by 29.0 by 24.0.

Check the width twice before you clear a space. The dimension card inside the product gallery, drawn by the same company, says 57 inches wide. The specification tab says 53.75. Height and depth agree, so plan the gap around the larger figure.

Built and standing, this is two materials in two places. Stainless sits on the hood and the cabinet doors, nowhere else you can see. Everything else is black. The shelves, the cart, the end caps on either side of the hood.

Then you reach for the left shelf and find it is not one. Lift the black cover and the side burner sits underneath, stainless, on its own valve. Prep room on that side amounts to whatever the burner cover can hold.

The first cook rewards patience. This much cast iron comes up to heat slowly, then gives it back slowly. Food lands and stays put instead of sliding. The marks come out dark, and the edge of a chop crisps rather than steams.

Key Features of the Broil King Crown S 440

Almost everything in this list belongs to the Crown 400 series rather than to this grill. Two entries do not. Those two are what the badge is actually paying for.

• Four Dual-Tube burners: Stainless, and they split the main grid’s 40,000 BTU between them. Each burner answers to its own valve. Four independent zones is real control on a cart at this money.
• Side Burner: 10,000 BTU of stainless burner, sunk into the left shelf under a cover. That is a quarter of the output the whole main grid receives. It will hold a wok, or a pot deep enough for corn.
• Cast-iron cooking grids: Heavy-duty, and reversible. One face carries a 1/4 inch searing rib. The opposite face carries a 3/4 inch basting rib instead. Broil King calls them 3-position grids.
• Stainless steel: Doors, lid, burners and Flav-R-Wave panels are the full stainless inventory. The cookbox those wrap is cast aluminum. Shelf tops are powder-coat paint over steel.
• Flav-R-Wave cooking system: Stainless plates tilt across the space from tube to grid. Drippings hit hot steel rather than an open burner port. What comes back up is smoke.
• Electric Igniter: Broil King calls the system Sure-Lite, and a panel button triggers it. Open a valve, press the button, and it lights. Every igniter eventually stops sparking, and this one will too.
• Linear-Flow valves: Off to full is 180 degrees of knob travel, not a quarter turn. A long travel puts distance between the low settings. Under grids this heavy, low is where the skill lives.
• Pullout Tray for Propane Tank: The cabinet swallows the cylinder completely. A drawer inside carries it, and the stainless doors close over hose and regulator.
• Locking casters and tool hooks: Four casters in the 3-inch size, and all four of them lock. Hooks fold down with the side shelves. Small things you use every single cook.

Heat and cooking performance

The output here belongs to the line, not to this particular grill. That 40,000 BTU and those 460 square inches belong to the series. Buy a plainer one and the burners under your food are the same burners.

The variable is the grid itself. It has two working faces and you pick one. A 1/4 inch rib concentrates contact into a narrow, hard line. The 3/4 inch face spreads that contact and keeps fat against the meat for longer.

Four valves mean four zones, with 180 degrees of travel to place each one. That matters most at the bottom of the range. Cast iron is unforgiving of a valve that jumps straight from low to medium. A long sweep gives a gentle setting somewhere to live.

Outside the lid there is a fifth ring to work with. It carries a quarter of the main grid’s rated output on its own control. Sauce reduces, onions soften, a wok gets hot, and the lid never has to come up.

Build, handling and durability

Cast aluminum is the choice that matters most and the easiest one to skim past. The cookbox cannot rust through from the inside the way folded sheet steel eventually does. Cast aluminum end caps close each side of a double-walled lid.

The stainless here is a skin, and Broil King is open about it. Doors and lid are stainless; the cabinet frame behind them is painted steel. Fasteners and cart hardware are zinc-coated rather than bare.

Handling is cart handling, with one detail above the norm. All four casters are the 3-inch size and all four of them lock. Whatever that unlabelled 148.0 lbs describes, this grill gets parked once and stays parked.

Running costs, upkeep and value

Our own check put the propane build at around $749 on Amazon on 22 September 2026. Broil King’s own store asks $959.00 CAD and currently lists both styles as unavailable. For now the retailer is the easier place to buy one.

For that you get a cast aluminum cookbox, stainless doors and a stainless lid. Four stainless burners, cast iron grids and a side burner come with it. Painted sheet steel is the usual answer at this money. The specification sits above the price, which is the honest case for the Crown.

Finding the warranty takes more work than reading it does. Broil King’s Warranty tab serves no text at all. The only terms anywhere on the listing sit inside a gallery graphic. Ten years covers the cook box and performance components, two years covers parts and paint.

Read that split against what you actually cook on. Which side the cast iron grids fall on is never stated. Nor does the graphic name them at all. It covers Crown, Signet and Royal together rather than this model alone.

Ask your dealer to write down which term applies to the grids. One recurring cost is easy to overlook at the checkout too. A cover is not in the box, and bare cast iron wants one. Broil King’s card names 67487, and its store lists a Crown 400 cover at $94.99 CAD.

Possible Broil King Crown S 440 Complaints

• The left shelf is a burner, not a work surface: That is exactly the trade the 440 badge makes. Its cover gives you somewhere to rest a pair of tongs and no more. You feel it the first time you carry a tray out with nowhere to set it. A cheap side table beside the grill solves it for very little money.
• The warranty exists only as a picture: The Warranty tab on the product page returns nothing you can read. The terms on the listing graphic are grouped across three product lines at once. Get the current schedule from your dealer on paper, and keep it with the receipt.