Choose a Table Top Grill

Grilling is rapidly becoming among the most popular ways to prepare dishes. For those who live in a multi-season region, however, grilling gets waylaid by weather. A counter top grill eliminates that and gives cooks the opportunity to grill year round in the comfort of their kitchens.

Now comes the fun part – finding the right one for your cooking needs. More than likely you’re going to want to store the grill between uses, so check your cupboard space first. That will help you greatly when gauging grill sizes. Beyond that let’s look at grills feature by feature:

The Nordicware Tabletop Grill and Smoker retails for about 39 pounds

Cooking surfaces: How many are there? Do they easily come out of the grill for cleaning afterwards? Are they dish washer safe and/or non-stick? To cook 12 hamburgers easily you need about 200 square inches of space.

Dripping container: Where do juices go when you cook (and how messy does it get on the countertop?)

Open face or closed: Open face grills seem morel ike outdoors, but they also put more smoke and oil into the air (and your countertop) unless they have good sides.

Direct or indirect heat? Contact grills have the heating element in the cooking surfaces while others are below or above the surfaces. An example of a contact grill would be the Foreman series, which is nice for making sandwiches or grilling thin sliced meats and vegetables, but not as functional for thick steaks.

Cool exterior: can you move the grill during cooking without burning yourself? Also does the unit give off heat that could damage sensitive countertops

Temperature control: Does the unit offer a variety of heats or only one uniform cooking temperature? Uniform heat limits what you can cook successfully to personal tastes.

Materials: iron surfaces make an exceptional media for grilling meat and vegetables and very long lasting, but it will require careful treatment to avoid rust.

A reasonable countertop grill with good options costs between £20 – £50.00. Having said that, the smaller size might make some homeowners pause to consider an actual built in grilling unit. This would be gas fed for flame broiling and also require good ventilation

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