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These Best Gas BBQs Will up Your Grilling Game
Fine dine al fresco this summer with our flaming hot edit
A strange thing happens when the mercury starts to rise. Some call it BBQ fever. We prefer ‘Soprano Syndrome’. When decent weather hits, you’ll find us doing our best Big Guy Tony impression behind a fired-up grill, telling anyone who’ll listen that charr marks are an art form. Sound familiar? It’s time to invest in the ultimate outdoor flex, a great gas BBQ.
These grilling machines are versatile enough to cook any food to tender, flavoursome perfection. They heat up faster and are easier to control than charcoal BBQs, with many featuring multiple burners for grilling a range of dishes simultaneously at different temperatures. You can also up your BBQ game with rotisserie attachments for slow cooking chicken, or a whaddya hear, whaddya say-worthy pizza stone.
Cooking on gas won’t give your food that evocative smoky flavour, but if that’s a deal-breaker, there are hybrid models available, such as the handsome Outback Jupiter. Or, if you simply can’t resist the pyromania allure of a firelighter, then please direct your attention towards our favourite charcoal BBQ, the Big Green Egg. We’ve included it because we refuse to gatekeep anything that results in the kind of sausages that make us use the word ‘juicy’ in public.
To ensure your summer is a Michelin-starred success, our resident BBQ expert tested 15 market-leading BBQs to find the grills worth your time and money. Whether you’re after a trusty two-burner or a portable beach buddy, you’re sure to find ‘the one’ in our edit.
How we test gas BBQs
Our expert homes tester cooked up a feast of meat and vegan sausages and burgers, corn on the cob, vegetable kebabs, chicken breasts and steaks, before devouring the lot with a little help from their friends.
Sear marks, even browning and moist but well-cooked centres scored points, as did even heat distribution, ease of use and smart design.
So, without further ado, pour yourself a glass and light up one of our best gas BBQs.
Blossom is our Senior Homes Tester. Passionate about finding the best home products and appliances for our readers, she has tested everything from blenders to pizza ovens. Blossom enjoys delving into the intricacies of products and refining testing protocols for hundreds of items. Innovative items like robot vacuum cleaners and wine coolers are among her favourite tests to date, and her most notable accomplishment is toasting 360 slices of bread in a determined bid to find the best toaster. In her free time, Blossom openly admits to being a music geek and indulges her creative side through crocheting, baking, singing and writing.
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