Whether you're a grill master an outdoor cooking newbie, our grilling guides bring together all of the tips and tricks you need for the perfect cookout.
Closeup of a whole beef tenderloin cooking on a charcoal grill.
How to Grill-Roast a Whole Beef Tenderloin
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The Best Way to Grill Sausages | The Food Lab
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Grilling Smackdown: Lump Charcoal vs. Briquettes
Charcoal being poured into a charcoal grill from a chimney starter.
If You Own a Charcoal Grill, Then You Need a Chimney Starter
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The Best Inexpensive Steak For The Grill Part 4: Flap Meat (Sirloin Tip)
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5 Delicious Cheeses You Should Throw on the Grill
Four slabs of grilled tofu with appetizing grill marks, next to fresh cilantro and shaved carrots.
How to Grill or Broil Tofu That's Really Worth Eating | The Food Lab
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How to Set Up Your Grill for Better Skewers, Kebabs, and Yakitori
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The Best Skewers for All Your Food-on-a-Stick Needs
Sliced skirt steak tacos with tomatoes and cilantro on a plate
How to Grill Skirt Steak
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To Find the Best Pellet Grills, We Tested 22 of Them and Made 200 Pounds of Chicken Wings
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How to Roast a Pig on a Spit
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21 Dipping Sauces for Grilled Meats and Veggies
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8 Great Hot Dog Topping Ideas
A fully loaded cheese burger with tomatoes and onions on a cutting board
10 Tips for Better Burgers | The Food Lab
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The Importance of Resting Meat | The Food Lab
Two steaks cooking on a hot grill.
12 Grilling Mistakes You Don't Have to Make (But Probably Do)
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How to Grill Whole Fish
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The Burger Lab: How to Shape a Burger For Grilling or Broiling
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How To Grill a Gigantic Rib-Eye Steak
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How to Grill Skinless Fish Fillets or Steaks
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For the Best Stir-Fry, Fire Up the Grill | The Food Lab
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Does Resting Under Foil Ruin Meat? | Ask The Food Lab
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How Often Should You Flip a Burger?
Charred kabobs on a charcoal grill.
How to Make Great Grilled Kebabs
Perfectly charred cheese-topped pizza pie on a wooden cutting board
The Serious Eats Guide to Grilling Pizza
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How to Use Smoke Woods
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Do Grill Pans Actually Mimic Grilling? | Ask The Food Lab
Two brats on a grill with a flare up.
How to Control Grilling Flare-Ups
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The Best Inexpensive Steak For The Grill Part 5: Tri-Tip
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Guide to Grilling: Arranging the Coals
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6 Grilling Hacks to Step Up Your Live-Fire Game
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How to Grill Pizza Indoors
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Serious Entertaining: A Spring Grilling Menu
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Grilled Apples in Caramel Sauce Recipe
Jerk Chicken
Essential Techniques and Recipes for the Summer Grill | The Food Lab
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The Easiest Way to Skewer Kebabs (and Not Your Hands)
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How to Use Your Grill to Free Up Oven Space This Thanksgiving
Grilled Pizza
How to Make Grilled Pizza
How Hot Is Too Hot? Adam Savage and The Food Lab Sear Steaks to Find Out
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Ooni’s New Pizza Oven Is Absolutely Massive—and It Makes Incredible Pizza
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To Find the Best Picnic Blankets, I Used Them in the Park and at the Beach (and Fended Off a Few Seagulls)
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Roasty and Toasty: I Tested 9 Marshmallow Roasting Sticks to Find Ones for Stress-Free S’mores and Hot Dogs
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How to Use Your Grill Settings for Better, Crisper Vegetables
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I Tested 8 Grill Baskets to Find the Best Ones for Grilling Vegetables, Seafood, and More
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I Tested 11 Coolers to See Which Ones Stayed Ice-Cold and Survived Being Pushed Off of a Truck
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Lump! Binchotan! How to Choose the Right Type of Charcoal for Your Grilling Needs
A Big Green Egg kamado smoker loaded with chicken wings.
Should You Buy a Big Green Egg? I Tested One for an Entire Year
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To Find the Best Flat-Top Grills, We Made Dozens of Smashed Burgers and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
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11 Deals on Tried-and-True Grilling Accessories to Grab Before Your Next Cookout, Starting at $8
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The Best Way to Clean Your Grill, According to Experts
One-off: affordable grill brush Tout
The Best Grill Brush Gets Into Every Nook and Cranny—and It’s on Sale for $14
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I Made a Dozen Pizzas (and Calzones) to Find Out If the Gozney Arc Could Bring the Heat
a variety of charcoal chimneys on a wooden picnic table
I Burned Through 78 Pounds of Charcoal to Find the Four Best Chimney Starters
Three propane smokers sit side-by-side in a backyard.
After 64 Hours of Testing, We Found the Three Best Gas Smokers
The Dyna-Glo Signature Series Vertical Offset Charcoal Smoker
Pellet vs. Offset: What You Need to Know Before Buying a Smoker
three electric smokers side by side on a lawn
After 48 Hours and Almost 100 Pounds of Protein, We Found the Best Electric Smokers
The Solo Stove Pi Prime Pizza Oven cooking a pie
The Solo Stove Pi Prime Is a Powerful Pizza Oven (It Cost Less Than Most Ooni Ovens, Too)