The 5 Best Flat Top Grills for Burgers, Breakfast, and Beyond

• Huge cooktop area
• Four burners
• Quick to heat, with precise heat control
• Easy to clean grease trap

• Cover requires a separate purchase
• Flimsy side tables are hard to prep on

Blackstone is your favorite chef's favorite griddle, if you catch our drift. In background of YouTube reviews of newer, inferior, products, you'll often spy a Blackstone logo among your grill expert's most used products, the ones they bought with their own money before even doing this. There's a reason why they always look so worn and loved. This gas griddle is easy to cook on and clean, has excellent heat control, and is built to last.

It's also massive. With 768 square inches of space to work with, that's a dozen burgers in one go, or a whole breakfast—bacon, eggs, toast, the whole nine yards. It's responsive to turning up or down the heat and has four burners so you can have four different heat zones going at one time. This responsiveness makes it a precision tool for large batch cooking and grilling.

It comes with some caveats. The cover is sold separately—not super expensive, but it's something you want for a windy day. We weren't a fan of the side tables either. With little support, they are your typical grill tables, not large or stable enough to do any real prep work on.