Best Electric BBQs

Very fast to heat plate and keep a constant temperature. The pre-heat setting is a game changer. People may think that being electric it would be expensive, but it is actually the opposite and no need to store gas bottles. Show details

RUST PROBLEMS – ...bought Weber Pulse 1000 4 years ago.Used it a lot and were very happy with it.We cleaned it regularly and it was always under the original Weber… Read more

cover. The electrical part was always stored inside. As we have not used it all winter,we wanted to clean it up:to our surprise and disappointment it had developped a lot of rust.It is for outdoors,is it not? We started to pull it apart,the further we got the more rust we recovered:very,very frustating... When we bought it,we asked especially,if there could be a problem with the position of our balcony,facing East and maybe some 700 km's away from the beach:'No problem' was the answer. Anyway,we are not happy at all,Weber!

Fabulous food and easy to use and the bonus is no gas needed as it's electric! Show details

Gets hot, works well – The ReversaGrill was given to us for testing. The ReversaGrill strongly reminds me of the Sunbeam electric frypan that my mother has been cooking… Read more

the family roasts in for about 50 years - and yes, the frypan has actually lasted that long. The probe on the ReversaGrill that you plug in is almost identical to the one on the frypan, and the ReversaGrill - particularly when it has the flat side up - simply looks like a larger version of the frypan but without a lid (and more on that later). Whilst the cooking area would be about twice that of my mother's electric frypan it'd have about 40% of the cooking area of my hooded gas BBQ and is probably a bit smaller than something like the Weber Baby Q.

In line with YouTube video protocol my children forensically unpacked the grill and reported to me that it was well protected but without excessive packaging. They also quickly worked out how it went together, including the safety latch.

We used the Reversagrill indoors (under the oven's rangehood so that the house didn't fill with smoke) for a variety of meals - bulgogli (which worked really well on it), sausages, chicken, sliced vegetables, fish and the real test, some fairly thick steaks. We mainly used the flat side and not the ridged one. My concern with the Reversagrill was whether it would spatter oil all over the place (as it doesn't have a lid) and if it would get hot enough to put a char on the meats. The concern in relation to heat was unwarranted as, when the control probe was turned up to "Max", it quickly charred the chicken we first tested out on it. We'd usually use a hooded gas BBQ for steaks so I was interested to see how they'd turn out on the ReversaGrill - the answer was really well: the grill got hot enough to char the outside of the steaks but have the inside medium rare. I was quite impressed by it - I'd usually have the gas BBQ at over 200 C to get that type of char so it suggests that the grill did get at least that hot.

There were a couple of areas for improvement with the ReversaGrill that became apparent when we did the steaks. Whilst I was impressed by how they were cooked (charred outside, still juicy inside) which indicates that the ReversaGrill got to a high temperature, I was surprised to discover that my family were less impressed with the steaks - they said that the steaks were less tasty than when done on our Weber Genesis hooded BBQ: because speculated one, they weren't being smoked as well and the flavour was going up the extractor fan. That mirrored my own thoughts when we first unpacked the grill, which was that it could do with a lid to stop spatter and keep heat in - so, more like my mother's electric frypan. The other issue is that of temperature control - the control probe simply has markers of "Min", "Med" and "Max" along the dial, without any indication on the grill to explain what temperatures those settings, or any between them, equated to. (On checking the manual I note that it says that at "Max" it's approximately between 195C and 250C - that's really not precise enough, and it may not be doing those temperatures in any case - without an accurate gauge you simply wouldn't know.). As I noted above, when we do steaks there's a minimum temperature that I'm aiming to get the grill to but with the ReversaGrill there was no way of knowing if I was anywhere near that so I turned it up to "Max" and waited to see how it worked. I'd considered seeing if I could borrow an infrared thermometer to check the temperatures at the various settings and I may yet do that. The manual does say that the grill is 2400W (NB, the online description says both 2200 watts and 2400 watts - which is it?), which given that a single bar heater is 1500W suggests that the ReversaGrill can get pretty hot.

The "DiamondForce" part of the name relates to the non-stick coating, which purportedly includes diamonds. Whatever the case, you shouldn't be using metal implements on it and my experience with non-stick surfaces over the last 30 years is that I'd prefer to just have a plain metal surface that I can season, as all of the non-stick surfaces have eventually peeled or worn off.

So, it's big enough to do a BBQ for a small family or a grilled breakfast, the reversible sides give you the option of putting grill marks on your food or cooking things like eggs on the flat side, it heats up quickly and appears to get very hot and it works well for grilling. Cleaning it is pretty straightforward. It also appears to be pretty durable and you could probably take it with you if you went away for a weekend and wanted a non-gas grill. But you'll need to use it outside or under an extractor fan and it would be an improvement if there was some indication of the actual temperatures it's at and if there was some kind of lid for it. I also think that for safety it needs a warning light when it's on, as the red light only cycles on and off to show when it's heating and there are no visual cues - unlike with a gas or charcoal BBQ - that it's actually at a very hot temperature, so I'd be keeping it well away from little kids fingers.

Good while it lasted. Based on reviews here I bought this, using it less than 6 times. No longer works Show details

Too many design flaws - regretful purchase – Wish I'd read the reviews first! As mentioned in other reviews, this Crossray Electric BBQ has some serious design flaws. I previously used a Weber Q… Read more

gas bottle BBQ, but wanted to try something electric. Purchased online for a significant discount at $449 (thankfully!). Comes 90% assembled, just need to insert reflector panels and plate/grill, which is a good thing, however the lid on mine was slighly warped and did not sit completely flat on it's two bump stops. Whilst the Crossray looks sleek and modern, it has some serious design flaws, the most obvious being no temperature control, it's either on of off, that's it. You can have one or two bars operating, but they are for each plate or grill, and you don't get a choice, it's back element on first and front element second. The BBQ gets seriously hot to 300C when on, so it cooks fast. Have successfully cooked up steak, chicken, fish, prawns. It's satisfactory for fast grilling, but forget ever trying to do a slow cooked roast over a number of hours, it's just not possible. Secondly, the tray basin beneath the elements is very shallow, so get used to flare ups from fat/oils/marinates igniting and spoiling the flavour of your cooking, burning oil is not the same taste as flame grilled!! Thirdly this BBQ is a nightmare to keep clean, and clean it you must, after just about every use, due again to the shallow nature of the basin tray. And as the metal rods holding up the plates and protecting the elements are fixed in place, cleaning tends to be a finger jamming nightmare, even if you use aluminium foil to cover the area to aid cleaning as suggested. Replacing that foil each time you clean is such fun! The electric cord is also very short, less than 1 metre, so you better have your power point right where you want your BBQ. Of couse you can use an extension cord, but that can compromise your all weather usage as cord joins and rain aren't a good mix. Finally the very small drip tray is accessed from the rear, which is in an inconvenient postion if you have the BBQ against a wall, and whilst the drip tray collects from a central hole, there are two other holes in the base and seam joins where liquids leak beneath the BBQ and create an oily mess. I cannot recommend this BBQ at all, I wish I could get a refund. Should have stuck with a Weber Q.

Aussie version missing crucial internal lid liner – Bought mine based on reviews of overseas model but the Aussie version comes without the aluminium lid liner. Other Weber electric BBQs have this… Read more

reflective liner inside the lid, and so do the cheaper Ninja electric BBQs.

Without the liner a lot of heat is lost through the lid, wasting electricity. Lid will also become hotter and would be more difficult to clean because there are plenty of nuts and bolts for grease to get trapped around. The smooth liner would be a lot easier to keep clean.

Very disappointing to see Weber sending an inferior version of their Lumin to Australia compared to other markets.

Photos attached of the Aussie version I bought vs the overseas model. Local Weber website misleading by not making a photo of the Lumin with an open lid prominent.

I do not recommend