The 5 best flat networks and grills from 2025, tested and reviewed

Photo: Matthew Corvage

Networks are a distinctive feature of American dinner and short cooking, as well as the heroes of all taco sandwiches in the streets. We tested the ability of each tray to make the most distinctive foods in flat witnesses.

On the seven networks I experienced for this guide, I made dozens of Smashburgers, Tacos, Fajitas, Fancakes, Bacon Strips and eggs. I also disturbed the fish on the skin, and red pork slices, and tested the ability of each tray to cook sensitive vegetables like asparagus at low temperatures while meat is cooked at higher temperatures on a different stove.

For Smashburgers, this guarantees cooking at the highest temperatures that each apartment can deal with – where every formulation was tested to break the meat that quickly shattered the grill and then released the meat into a spoon. Pinns. It was placed through the grill, it was a test of the grill equal to the surface of cooking. Thick meat boards, such as cutting Brook, tested the ability of the grill to keep the temperature during the burning.

But also, we got acquainted with each tray using an infrared heat scale – which leads to determining the temperature at different points along the grill surface while heating it at high or low temperatures. We have also raced networks against each other, and we examine the time that each tray took to heat 500 degrees Fahrenheit.

Although the fastest is not always better: networks that heated are sometimes faster in temperature less, or less. Our highest-class selection, which is the Traeger Flatrock 3- Zone area, took 10 minutes to reach 500 degrees. But she did this evenly across the surface of the grill.

I assembled each tray myself, both to know how much work will face each customer, but also to reach the exact descent of how to collect each device together: you can really know the grill, while spending an hour in each part.

Especially, placed in the work of cleaning, spices, resettling each tray over time, identifying weaknesses, hot areas, extent of its cooling speed, and how high temperatures – adhere to the amount of effort required by each tray, and the degree that is rewarded for this effort.