Nexgrill’s spec sheet for the Daytona 4-Burner Flat Top Griddle lists cooking space twice. Primary surface, 756 square inches. Total surface, 756 square inches. The same number, twice.
That is not a rounding accident. On Nexgrill’s black 36-inch Daytona the two figures are far apart. A gap between them is how a spec sheet says there is a second surface. Model 720-1058 has no gap.
So everything you cook sits on the hot plate, for the whole cook, together. The question is where finished food goes while the rest catches up.
First Impressions of the Nexgrill Daytona 4-Burner Griddle
Front on, the Daytona looks less like equipment and more like a counter. A stainless panel carries the controls across most of the front. Four knobs sit along it in a row. Black shelves fold out on either side and make the thing wider still.
The cart is long and Nexgrill never says how heavy it is. Plan the build for two people and an afternoon. Once the casters are on it rolls, and that is the last easy move it makes.
The plate arrives gray and bare. Hot-rolled steel is honest about what it is. Nexgrill’s own chemical disclosure lists the metals in it.
Oil and heat turn that gray brown, then close to black, over several rounds. Food before then will stick and tell you so.
What a flat top is for becomes obvious on the first cook. Sliced onions stay put instead of dropping between bars. Patties flatten onto unbroken metal and brown edge to edge. The result tastes like a diner counter, not a backyard.
Key Features of the Nexgrill Daytona 4-Burner Griddle
A griddle is really two things: a steel plate and whatever heats it. The rest is cart, lid and drainage. The cart here is plain; the money is elsewhere.
- Four stainless steel burners: Together they are rated at 60,000 BTU. That is a serious quantity of fire for a domestic flat top. All of it goes under 756 square inches of steel.
- Individual burner electronic ignition: Each burner has its own light-up rather than one shared spark. A burner you never turn on never has to be lit. Nexgrill stocks the igniter module, the control knob and the gas valve as service parts.
- Hot-rolled steel plate: The cooking surface is a single continuous slab, 36 inches across. Steel of that size holds heat well and moves it sideways freely. Both halves of that sentence matter later.
- Stainless steel lid and control face: A stainless main lid shuts down over the whole cooking surface. That keeps rain and leaves off bare steel between cooks. The control panel is stainless too, and wipes down better than paint.
- Fast Vac grease management: Drippings run off the plate into a funnel and a cup below. Nexgrill sells the funnel, the cup, the cup bracket and a foil tray liner separately. Every piece of the grease path can be replaced rather than scrubbed forever.
- Oversized side shelves: Tool hooks line the edge of each shelf. One takes a removable caddy box, and there is a paper towel rack. On a griddle, where prep happens beside the plate, that earns its keep.
- Four casters: All four corners roll, so the cart turns in place. Nothing on a griddle this wide is going to be carried. Rolling is the design’s answer to its own footprint.
Heat density here sits near 79 BTU per square inch, on Nexgrill’s own two figures. For a full-size domestic flat top, that is strong. Judge the griddle on that figure.
Steel this broad gives up heat quickly to a cold load. Recovery is the whole job, and recovery is bought with fire.
The more interesting spec is the ignition line. Individual burner electronic ignition means each burner lights independently. Four separate burners under one plate is a different proposition from two. Turning one down is a decision about a section, not about an end.
That changes what a low knob buys. On a two-burner plate, backing one off cools a whole half. With four, the outer burner idles while the middle two stay hot. You get something closer to a holding area than to a gradient.
Closer, not equal. Steel conducts sideways, and the boundary between sections is nowhere specified. Expect the cool end to be cool by griddle standards only. It holds food rather than resting it.
Build, handling and durability
For this tier, the materials list is unusually generous. Stainless lid, stainless burners, stainless control face. Cheaper griddles paint all three, and paint on a hot cabinet fails first. The money went into the parts that meet fire and fat.
Durability here is decided by upkeep rather than by parts. Hot-rolled steel under seasoning is bare metal. A wet winter, a scrubbed patch or a few skipped oilings will start orange. The stainless lid helps, because the plate spends most of its life underneath it.
Handling comes down to the footprint. Assembled, this griddle runs 66.10 inches wide, 29.61 deep and 41.22 high. Casters at each corner let you push it out of the way. Storage, for something this wide, means picking a corner.
Put two of those figures side by side and the cart makes sense. Cooking steel spans 36 inches; the assembled machine spans 66.10. Most of that difference is shelf. Generous while you cook, awkward the rest of the time.
Running costs, upkeep and value
Fuel is propane, and Nexgrill stocks an LP regulator for this model. A cylinder is the running cost, and a plate this size does not make it cheap. Four burners at full fire empty a tank faster than two do.
Upkeep on a flat top is a rhythm, not a chore list. The routine is push everything off hot, dry the steel, oil it. On 756 square inches that takes longer than it does on a tabletop. The reward is that a well-kept plate cooks better every month.
Nexgrill’s real design effort went into the grease path. Fast Vac is an assembly of separate pieces, and Nexgrill stocks every one. Funnel, cup, cup bracket, foil tray liner: all orderable. Nothing there is welded in to corrode and stay corroded.
The value case is harder to close than it should be. Nexgrill does not sell this griddle, prints no price, and names no warranty. What you can weigh is the equipment list. Full-size plate, stainless lid, twin shelves, four casters, all standard.
Whether that adds up depends on a figure Nexgrill leaves to somebody else. Weigh the kit first, then go and find out what it costs.
Possible Nexgrill Daytona 4-Burner Griddle Complaints
- The plate is the only surface there is: Nexgrill lists one figure for both primary and total cooking space. Nothing sits above the steel, so finished food waits on hot metal. You feel it on a mixed cook, when eggs are done and hash is not. Running an outer burner low is the only mitigation built in.
- The warranty is not on the page: Nexgrill’s listing for 720-1058 gives specs, features and a chemical disclosure. It gives no coverage term. Retail pages for the same griddle do advertise one, which is worth confirming. Make whoever sells it to you put the coverage in writing.
