For the second part of our quick and easy guide to all the different types of grills you can choose for your backyard BBQ, we’re looking at two less conventional grill types: Infrared and pellet grills. When it comes to grilling, these grills may not be as well-known as charcoal or gas, but that doesn’t mean they can’t hold their own against the more traditional outdoor cookers. In fact, both pellet grills and infrared grills offer distinctive advantages over charcoal and gas. To get a better understanding of those advantages, let’s take a closer look.

Infrared Grills

Perhaps you’d never heard of infrared grills before now, but these incredible outdoor cookers can take your grilling game to the next level. As their name suggests, infrared grills utilize the power of infrared radiation to cook your food. Rather than heating the air as other grills do, infrared grills heat a surface—made out of ceramic, steel, or glass—that is specially designed to emit infrared heat.