Char-Broil Medallion Series Modular Outdoor Kitchen Griddle Review

First Impressions of the Char-Broil Medallion Series Griddle

Char-Broil publishes no packing list for this module, so start from the finished object. It stands 38.1 inches tall and 26.5 inches deep. That is counter height, and it is clearly meant to be.

The face is stainless and deliberately plain. A hinged stainless lid folds back off the plate. One control knob with a red collar sits below it. Two small switches sit to its left.

Black corner posts and a black base plinth frame the cabinet. Nothing on the front reads as a cart. It looks like an appliance that expects a neighbor on each side.

Open the full-height door and there is empty cabinet behind a louvered vent strip. Nothing published says what that space is rated to hold. The bar handle across the door belongs on a kitchen appliance rather than a grill.

The first cook makes the height the story. A plate at counter height changes how you stand over food. You work down onto it instead of reaching across a cart. Onions soften into their own fat, and eggs set without sliding anywhere.

What is missing is as loud as what is there. No side shelf, no warming rack, no work surface of any kind. On a standalone griddle that would read as cost-cutting. In a modular line, the shelf is simply the next cabinet along.

Key Features of the Char-Broil Medallion Series Griddle

Most of this module’s character sits in the casework rather than the cooking hardware. The griddle inside is conventional, and Char-Broil does not pretend otherwise. What surrounds it is not conventional at all.

• Interlocking modular attachment: Char-Broil describes interlocking attachment for configuration within a Medallion run. That single line is the reason this module exists. Bought on its own, the feature does nothing at all. Every other choice on this cabinet assumes the neighbor is coming.
• Stainless steel, and not only on the skin: The burner material is stainless and so is the grate. Char-Broil calls the construction premium stainless steel. The parts living in fire and grease are the same metal as the face. Corner posts and the base plinth are the black exceptions.
• Removable griddle plate and grease tray: Both lift out rather than needing a scrub in place. That is the least painful version of flat-top cleanup. A plate you can carry to a sink gets cleaned far more often. It also means the steel can spend winter indoors.
• LED Controls: The control knobs are lit from within. Reading a setting after sunset is normally guesswork on a gas cooker. Here the knob tells you where it sits. A fixed kitchen used at night makes that worth more than it sounds.
• Illuminated cooking surface: Char-Broil fits integrated LED and halogen lights for night cooking. Very little else in this bracket bothers. Battery included reads No, and battery required reads No. Nothing else is published about how the lights are fed.
• Electric Igniter: Ignition is Char-Broil’s Surefire electronic system. The specification table lists no battery as included and none as required. That is one fewer cell to hunt for in a drawer.
• Four heavy-duty leveling casters: They carry 110 lbs and adjust for height. Their job is bringing this module level with its neighbor. Four of them under 25 inches of cabinet is generous adjustment. Rolling anywhere is not the point.
• Dual Fuel enabled: The module runs on liquid propane as it arrives. Char-Broil sells a natural gas conversion kit separately. That kit is not in the box and not in the price.

Heat and cooking performance

Start with the fire, because everything else here is furniture. Char-Broil rates the burner system at 14,000 BTU. Its own page then prints two cooking areas. The features block says 250 square inches; the specification table says 225.

Twenty-five square inches is not a rounding error. Any heat-per-inch figure swings with whichever number you pick. So we are not going to print one. What is safe to say is that 14,000 BTU is modest for this money.

The bigger gap is the burner count, which Char-Broil does not publish at all. Its table prints No where a number belongs. Nobody can promise you a hot side and a holding side on that. No surface temperature figure appears either, so you learn this plate by watching oil.

Build, handling and durability

The materials story is short and mostly good news. The burner is stainless, the grate is stainless, and the construction around both is premium stainless. Char-Broil lists heat tent material as N/A, which is correct for a griddle. Almost nothing on this cabinet depends on a coating.

110 lbs inside 25 inches of width is dense casework. Most of that mass is cabinet rather than cooking hardware. The four leveling casters exist to set this module level against its neighbor. There is no wheeling it across the lawn, and no reason to want to.

The warranty splits four ways rather than one, and the split is revealing. Burners carry 10 years. Grate and firebox terms both run to 3 years. The lighting and the casters land in the 1 year bucket with everything else.

Running costs, upkeep and value

Two prices were live for this module on August 25, 2026. Char-Broil listed it at $949.99 and showed it out of stock. Amazon had it buyable at around $774.99, with only 3 left in stock. Its rating there was 5.0 stars from 5 ratings, a very small sample.

What this module is worth gets decided by its neighbor. The Medallion 5-burner grill module is 52.5 inches wide and lists at $2,099.99. Set the two side by side and the run reaches 77.5 inches. That is an outdoor kitchen, and the shared stainless face finally earns its keep.

Cleaning this module asks less of you than most flat tops. Both the griddle plate and the grease tray come away by hand. Neither needs scrubbing while bolted in place, which is unusual on a built-in. A natural gas conversion is a separate kit, and a fixed kitchen usually wants one.

Possible Char-Broil Medallion Series Griddle Complaints

• Bought on its own, it is stranded: The interlock, the matching height and the shared face all point sideways. None of them pay until a second module arrives. A buyer feels it the day delivery lands and nothing joins it. Plan the whole run first, then buy the griddle into it.
• The specification sheet argues with itself: One page carries 250 square inches and 225 square inches at once. Burner count is printed as No. Nothing at all is published about powering the lights. For a module going into a permanent build, those are the answers you most need.