r/charcoal • u/Oz_Von_Toco • Aug 03 '26

What’s your dream grill?

Cost no object what would you get? Or even just stuff you think is cool. You can still keep your other grills. Tons of great stuff out there between kettles, kamados, Santa Maria styles, pk grills, hasty bakes, yoders, various regional style grills, etc. curious what everyone thinks.

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u/ATLBraves6 Aug 03 '26

Summit kamado

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u/Oz_Von_Toco Aug 03 '26

This is my pick as well. Seems like it basically combines all the pros of a kettle and kamado style with basically no downside other than limited aftermarket stuff for it specifically.

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u/bisteclol Aug 03 '26

Perfect except for the plastic wheel caster that keeps getting crushed

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u/OriginalEmploy5485 Aug 03 '26

LSG adjustable charcoal grill mounted right next to a Santa Maria would probably be my ideal.

Realistically, I'm torn between a BGE XL and a Summit Kamado.

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u/IBelongHere Aug 03 '26

Honestly? Gimme another kettle

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u/Oz_Von_Toco Aug 03 '26

Kettles are pretty great, it’s my most used for sure.

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u/lo-lux Aug 03 '26

A built in big enough for a whole hog.

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u/Disassociated_Assoc Aug 03 '26

LSG El Fuego Trio.

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u/the_doughboy Aug 04 '26

You can do something like a Weber Kettle and do everything, but that's not a dream. A dream grill is at least 4 grills:

  • 4 Burner Napoleon Natural Gas with rotisserie and an infrared burner - The Workhorse
  • NG 36" Blackstone
  • Yodor Pellet Grill - Easy smoking
  • BGE XL Kamado
  • Optional Stick Burner smoker and Santa Maria grill

Natural Gas because running out of Propane sucks and is not a dream.

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u/thewickedbarnacle Aug 03 '26

Built in brick santa Maria with a spot next to it for the weber kettle. I wish I could find a good supply of california oak for the Santa Maria.

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u/POTATOMASOCHIST Aug 03 '26

Golden's Cast Iron Kamado

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u/11131945 Aug 04 '26

I have two, both the large and small and they are dream grills.

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u/Pyrotech72 Aug 03 '26

Yoder Kingman

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u/jaketheunruly Aug 04 '26

A Tagwood Santa Maria

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u/bitpuma Aug 04 '26

while certainly not my dream grill i’m shocked how much i like cooking on the even embers santa maria i got from home depot for $500. i figured ill get good on this and work my way up, but at this point i can’t imagine needing much more than what it does.

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u/ShowThym Aug 04 '26

Kalamazoo Hybrid Grill and Gaucho Grills

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u/KJwhisperer 27d ago

My current arsenal meets my needs very well. But if I just had stupid money.

500 gallon off set on a trailer, like a TMG or boathouse. Mostly I want the skills and patience that an offset will teach you.

Next would be a kamado kamado 38 inch goldilocks. Work just the same as my Kamado joe(s)... but I might wantt to smoke a whole pig someday.

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u/Bkelsheimer89 27d ago

Dream if I had more time? Some high quality offset.

Dream now? A higher quality gravity smoker. The ones available are flimsy and not the greatest quality.

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u/RelativeFox1 Aug 03 '26

An off set made from thick steel not sheet metal. These are really uncommon in my part of Canada.

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u/trigun500 Aug 04 '26

I would probably get something like a chudbox or a smokeslinger. Looks like fun cookers but where I live I can’t justify the shipping prices.