Pit Boss Ultimate Gas 4 Burner Non-Stick Lift-Off Griddle & 4B Ultimate Griddle Cover, Black

Why it's worth it

The armored ceramic surface skips the seasoning ritual entirely, so you can cook eggs on it the day it arrives. You still get four burners and 673 square inches, plus a fitted cover in the box.

The non-stick surface is the reason to pick this one. Pit Boss uses a proprietary armored ceramic coating instead of raw steel, so there's no multi-coat seasoning session before your first cook and no panic when it gets rained on. Eggs slide. Cleanup is a wipe rather than a scrape. If the maintenance side of griddle ownership is what's kept you from buying one, start here.

You're not giving up much space either. At 673 square inches across four burners, it's within a hundred square inches of the biggest griddles here, and 46,000 BTUs is enough to hold a hot searing zone while another burner idles. Cook for a family of six with friends over and you'll run out of appetite before you run out of plate.

From our review of 5 griddle grills

What we like

• +The non-stick surface is the reason to pick this one
• +You're not giving up much space either
• +The cover comes in the box, which sounds minor and isn't
• +The griddle top also lifts off

What to know

• –A coating is a coating
• –Coated surfaces don't sear quite as hard as seasoned steel, either