About

One person writes and runs GrillingSetup, publishing under the site's name rather than a byline. There is no editorial team and no contributor network, so when a page says something was cooked on, it means one person cooked on it, and the page says so explicitly. The photographs on the home page are that person's own gear.

The site covers fixing, maintaining, fueling and cooking on grills, smokers, griddles and pizza ovens, and choosing one when it is time. Most pages are troubleshooting and maintenance guides, because that is what an owner needs on the day they go looking. Product research and real product use are kept separate behind the scenes, so a page never borrows experience it has not earned.

Where the guides come from

Manufacturer manuals and support pages, and USDA food safety figures where a cook needs a temperature. Every material fact on a guide is tied to one of those in the page’s own source record, with the date it was read. When a manufacturer does not publish a number, the guide says what to do instead of inventing one. Nothing here is a rewrite of another grilling site.

The equipment behind the site is my own: Blackstone griddles, a Weber natural gas grill that has cooked for fifteen years, and an older Traeger. Ten years of owning them is where the judgement in these pages comes from. It is not a testing lab, and no page pretends otherwise.

I also run WorkstationSetup.com, a home office gear review site. The two are separate properties with separate coverage and no shared content.

How it is funded

Affiliate commissions. When you buy through a link here I may earn a percentage. It costs you nothing extra and it does not decide what I recommend or what order things are ranked in. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The longer version is on the disclosure page.

What I will not do

• Claim I have used something I have not used.
• Copy another publisher's words, structure, rankings, or verdict.
• Publish a material factual claim I cannot support.
• Present an old merchant price or availability claim as current.
• Publish instructions for modifying a gas appliance. That is a licensed trade and a safety certification, not a weekend project.
• Publish safety or emergency guidance. What to do about a fire, a leak, or a clearance belongs to the manufacturer’s manual and the local code, and the guides point there instead of restating it.

How I review explains how research, real product use, and recommendations stay separate.

If something is not working, start with the troubleshooting guides, or the maintenance guides before the first cook of the season.

If you are here to pick something, start with a category: gas grills, charcoal, pellet smokers, griddles, or pizza ovens.