About BBQ Grill & Smoker

BBQ Grill & Smoker helps backyard cooks choose better equipment, master practical cooking techniques, and make great food over fire.

We publish straightforward grill and smoker reviews, product comparisons, buying guides, BBQ recipes, and troubleshooting advice. Whether you’re buying your first charcoal grill, comparing pellet smokers, or trying to keep chicken from drying out, our goal is to give you useful answers without unnecessary jargon.

Better Information for Backyard Cooks

Shopping for BBQ equipment can become complicated quickly. Product pages repeat the same specifications, marketing claims blur together, and the most expensive option isn’t always the right one.

BBQ Grill & Smoker makes those decisions easier by focusing on what matters in actual use:

Cooking space and capacity
Temperature control and heat distribution
Fuel type and operating costs
Construction quality and durability
Ease of assembly, cleaning, and maintenance
Features that provide genuine value
The type of cook each product suits best

We research manufacturer specifications, product documentation, customer experiences, competing models, and other relevant sources. When we have firsthand experience with a product, we make that clear. When a recommendation is based on research rather than direct testing, we don’t pretend otherwise.

What We Cover

Our guides cover the equipment, techniques, and food at the center of backyard cooking, including:

Gas, charcoal, pellet, kamado, and portable grills
Pellet, electric, charcoal, and offset smokers
Griddles, thermometers, tools, and BBQ accessories
Grill and smoker reviews and comparisons
Beef, pork, poultry, seafood, and vegetable recipes
Smoking times, temperatures, fuel, and fire management
Cleaning, maintenance, and common equipment problems

Some readers want to spend an entire weekend tending an offset smoker. Others want dinner ready without turning cooking into a second job. We write for both.

Our Editorial Approach

Every article should help you answer a practical question, solve a real problem, or make a more informed purchase.

Our editorial standards are simple:

Be useful. We prioritize information that helps readers cook or make decisions.

Be honest. We explain meaningful advantages, limitations, and tradeoffs instead of declaring every product “the best.”

Be specific. Recommendations should identify who a product is for, what it does well, and when another option may make more sense.

Be Relevant. There’s no one-size-fits-all, there’s something for everyone. Each review should speak to who the product is right for, not necessarily what product is the best.

Keep improving. BBQ equipment changes, prices move, and better information becomes available. We review and update our content to keep it useful.

Affiliate disclosure

To keep the lights on and the coals lit, some of our links are affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never influences our scores or recommendations — a product that doesn’t perform doesn’t make the cut, commission or not.

Affiliate relationships help support the operation of the site, but they do not determine our conclusions or guarantee a positive review. We want you to buy the right product—even when that means buying a less expensive model or deciding you don’t need anything new.

About the Editor

I’m Jason Hewett, the writer and editor behind BBQ Grill & Smoker.

I’m optimizing this site to make shopping for grills, smokers, and BBQ equipment less confusing. I bring more than a decade of professional experience in editorial strategy, product research, and digital content to every guide published here.

BBQ Grill & Smoker is currently an independently operated publication. That means I’m personally responsible for its editorial standards, research process, and recommendations. I’m also continuing to review and improve older articles as the site grows.

My goal isn’t to make every grill sound essential. It’s to explain what a product does well, where it falls short, and who should—or shouldn’t—spend money on it.