These Best Gas BBQs Will up Your Grilling Game

This is everything you could possibly want in a BBQ; assembly was effortless, its four burners offer ample cooking versatility, and you can store a gas canister within one of its cupboards. Its grills are also made with in-built infrared technology, so its heat distribution was impeccable.

As a result, so was our food – we awarded full marks to its delicious steaks and chicken breasts. It's sizeable enough for feeding a crowd too. An all-round top griller.

Not quite ready to say goodbye to charcoal? Well, you don’t have to with this BBQ, which has four gas burners and a charcoal basket for cooking both ways. Its grill is adjustable too; you can remove the central panel to fit a wok, giving you even more culinary possibilities to play with.

Its porcelain hood helped with heat distribution, enabling the grill to warm evenly and it served up delectable food. Its vegetable kebabs deserve a mention – the best of all we tested – as does its magnetic bottle opener for keeping the beer flowing.

Available in four colours, including red, green and blue, you can match it to the rest of your garden set-up.

Behold, the Big Green Egg. This charcoal grill is fanatically hyped – it even has its own ‘Egghead’ fandom and festival. We wish we were joking, but in the face of our own scepticism surrounding anything that borders on BBQ cult levels, we do unfortunately have to tell you that this is the best charcoal BBQ we’ve ever tried.

Thanks to the included ‘conveggtor’ this natural wood charcoal-burning BBQ can also be used as an alfresco oven. This means that anything you can make in the kitchen, you can also make outdoors. You can bake. You can slow cook. Yes, you can even spend eight glorious hours of your life smoking a quality piece of meat until the neighbours start referring to you as Julian Slowik. It’s also self-cleaning.

From the arguably very sexy sear marks on our Sirloin steak to the robust oak flavour of our smoked pulled pork, our expert loved it. See ya at Eggtoberfest.

Here’s one for the foodies. This premium Weber has both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and can send temperature information straight from the grill to an accompanying app, allowing you to cook with ultimate precision.

Connecting its additional meat probe means you can also create cooking zones and monitor multiple dishes at once. And once perfected, you can save your favourite recipes. Its large grill produced mouth-watering results on test, nailing the classics, while a built-in night light means the party needn't end when the sun sets.

Just because your garden may be best described as bijou, it doesn’t mean there’s not a top calibre BBQ to suit. Measuring just over a metre, this two-burner will slot in anywhere, and it features the same infrared technology that helped the Char-Broil Professional Core 4 Burner take our crown.

Its evenly heated grill gave all our food enticing sear marks, and it’s well-designed too – the side tables fold down, there are ample tool hooks and LED lights illuminate its controls. It's powerful, despite its modest size.

Live the al-fresco fine dining dream and feed all your friends with this five-burner – the biggest BBQ on our list. It’s available as a standalone and arrives pre-built, or you could consider investing in it as part of one of Whistler’s outdoor kitchens.

Trust us, the fare it cooks up won’t disappoint either. It performed outstandingly, scoring full marks in almost all our food tests. It comes with a rotisserie system – although you’ll need mains electricity for this – and the stainless-steel design will add style to any outdoor space.

Enjoy the great outdoors without sacrificing the quality of your food with this foldable one-burner. Whether you’re at the beach or going camping, its built-in trolley, tool hooks and side table help make cooking effortless fun.

The centre of its grill plate produced the most delicious results, but we’d recommend keeping a spare gas canister to hand, as the ones it uses are small. This is a BBQ for maximum flexibility and nomad lifestyles. Simply pop it in the boot and drive.

If it’s good enough for Heston Blumenthal, then this three-burner is good enough for us. Available in three colour ways, it’s ideal if you’re after a BBQ that stands out for its looks and its culinary skills.

It reaches your desired temperature quickly, with good heat distribution, bar the odd cold spot at the very front of the grill. It’s also a multi-tasker with options to add extras including a rotisserie accessory, a pizza stone (included) or teppanyaki plate which can be subbed in for the grill.