Getting started

Where to begin with a first outdoor-cooking setup, and what to decide before you buy.

Where it will live, how much surface you need and which features change daily use. A practical way to narrow down a first outdoor griddle.

You don't need a 30-piece set to start. Here are the few griddle tools that matter, what each one does and what can wait.

A griddle cooks on a flat steel plate and a grill cooks over grates. Here's how that changes your meals, cleanup and first purchase.

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