The grills are built robustly in the heart of barbecue country in Yoder, KS, with ¼-inch steel for durability backed by a 10-year warranty. As a result, this is a beefy, 277-pound pellet grill ...

As an expert in outdoor cooking, Greg has written more than 30 articles on grilling and barbecuing for Food & Wine across categories including kamado grills, pizza ovens, and meat thermometers.

The Cuisinart didn’t make our list of the best pellet grills. There were other optionslike the best-in-show RecTeq, the Traeger Pro 575, the Weber Searwood and the Yoder pellet grillthat came ...