Biggest Grills by Cooking Area (2026)

A vertical pellet smoker rather than a pellet grill: the auger feeds a burn pot at the base of a tall cabinet, heat and smoke rise through seven racks, and there is no grilling surface at all. Camp Chef's differentiator was the Smoke Box - a separate chamber that smoulders wood chunks alongside the pellet fire, which is what pellet smokers are usually criticised for lacking. 2,408 sq in, a 30 lb hopper, a WiFi PID controller with Camp Chef's 1-10 Smoke Number, and a 150-350°F range. Camp Chef have since pulled it: their vertical-pellet-smoker collection page still exists but lists nothing, and retailers from BBQGuys to CampSaver mark it discontinued.

The Workhorse 1975 is a 3/8-inch-wall offset — thicker than the quarter-inch that defines the premium tier — with a 48-inch chamber and a 27-inch firebox, weighing 1,080 lbs on casters. Workhorse Pits builds in Texas and sells direct with a roughly 110-day queue. The fully loaded configuration adds a cowboy firebox grill and a top rack, taking total cooking area to 2,316 sq in.

The largest vertical pellet cabinet Pit Boss sells direct: six adjustable racks totalling 2,015 sq in over a 60 lb hopper, in the Sportsman trim that replaced the Copperhead 5-Series. The cooking mechanism is identical to the Navigator 3-Series — auger-fed burn pot at the base, convection chimney above — but the extra rack and 900 more square inches move it into the range where it competes with a whole-hog cooker on volume alone.

A vertical offset, which is a different animal from the horizontal offsets already in the catalog: the firebox sits at the base of a tall cabinet and heat rises through six adjustable grates rather than travelling sideways down a barrel. Dyna-Glo's wide-body version gives 1,890 sq in across those six grates, each rated to 25 lbs, with a porcelain-enameled charcoal chamber, a pre-installed high-temp rope door seal and a removable ash pan. At $349 it is the cheapest way to get close to 2,000 square inches of charcoal smoking space.

The Flagship 1600 is the current top of Recteq's main cabinet line, replacing the RT-700 and RT-1250 generation that our catalog's era of Recteq grills came from. It holds 1,667 sq in with the second shelf, a 40 lb hopper — a whole bag of pellets, about 40 hours — and 304 stainless grates. Everything below it in the line uses the same PID controller and 180–700°F range; the Flagship buys capacity, grate material and the bull-horn stainless build.

The Loaded Wichita is Yoder's 20-inch offset, built in Kansas from quarter-inch pipe and plate and sold with a lifetime warranty. 'Loaded' is the only trim Yoder still lists and it bundles the door counterweight, dual gauges, a probe port, stainless grates, a heat management plate, grease drain and log grate — items that are extra-cost options on most pits in this class. Yoder's smaller Cheyenne offset has been discontinued, leaving the Wichita as the brand's entry offset.

The largest grill Pit Boss currently sells and the direct replacement for the Pro Series 1600. It is the Navigator 1300 stretched to 1,593 sq in on the same 30 lb hopper, same controller, same 180–500°F range and same Flame Broiler lever. The hopper not growing with the chamber is the one spec worth noticing — more grate on the same fuel supply means shorter unattended runs when the grill is full.

Lone Star Grillz builds to order in Conroe, Texas and sells factory-direct only. The 20x36 is the smallest of its traditional offsets: 3/16-inch chamber, quarter-inch firebox, 485 lbs, with a Tel-Tru gauge and two sliding food trays fitted as standard. Its distinguishing feature is a cross-flow baffle arrangement that moves heat top-down across the chamber rather than the straight firebox-to-stack path of a bare offset.

Navigator is the premium end of the current Pit Boss line — tapered legs, a fold-down prep shelf, a gravity hopper cleanout and a removable undermount burn pot for ash removal. The 1300 carries 1,329 sq in on a 30 lb hopper with two probes included. Everything mechanical below it in the line is the same: 180–500°F, 5°F increments, Flame Broiler lever for direct-flame searing.

The Traeger Timberline XL is Traeger's top-of-the-line flagship pellet grill, with a fully insulated double-wall body, induction side burner, and a touchscreen controller. It's aimed at serious enthusiasts.

Pit Boss's largest electric cabinet and the direct competitor to Masterbuilt's 40-inch. A 1,650-watt element heats the cabinet and a chip tray beside it makes the smoke; there is no auger and no burn pot, so the smoke is the thin, controllable kind an element produces rather than the heavier output of a pellet cabinet. It undercuts the Masterbuilt 710 WiFi by adding 610 sq in at a lower price, and the 300°F ceiling is 25°F above Masterbuilt's.

The DualFire 1200 is a two-chamber pellet grill: about 900 sq in of indirect smoking space on one side and roughly 300 sq in of direct-flame grilling on the other, each with its own fire and its own set point. That is the feature no other mainstream pellet grill has — you can hold 225°F on a brisket and sear at 700°F at the same time without moving anything. It carries a 70 lb hopper, the largest in Recteq's line.

The Gravity XT is Masterbuilt's current gravity-fed flagship and a direct response to the #1 complaint about the original 560/800/1050 series: build quality. The XT gets dual-wall FuelSaver insulation, a porcelain-coated interior, beefier hardware, and a 3-year warranty (up from 1), while keeping the party trick that made the line famous - real charcoal flavor with pellet-grill automation, from a 225F smoke to a legitimate 700F cast-iron sear in minutes. Owners and reviewers consistently call it the best-cooking gravity smoker you can buy, with better fuel efficiency and steadier temps than the old 1050 and the Char-Griller Gravity 980. The honest caveats: at $1,799 it costs nearly triple what a Gravity 800 street-prices for, it's a 199 lb two-person assembly job, and the electronics-in-a-charcoal-grill concern hasn't vanished - fans, switches, and control boards remain the failure points owners report, though XT-generation complaints are notably rarer. The hopper's 12 lbs of lump or 18 lbs of briquettes genuinely runs an overnight brisket. If you want charcoal taste with an app and don't want a Big Green Egg's learning curve, this is the class leader.

An Arteflame is a solid half-inch carbon steel cooktop ring around an open central fire — a griddle and a fire pit in one, with no lid and no dampers. Heat is controlled by where food sits on the ring: the inner edge sears past 1,000°F, the outer edge holds finished food warm. The base is Corten weathering steel, which is meant to rust to a stable patina and then stop, so it is designed to live outdoors uncovered.

The propane answer to Dyna-Glo's charcoal cabinets and the natural replacement shopping target now that the Camp Chef Smoke Vault is discontinued. Two cast-iron burners totalling 20,000 BTU sit under a porcelain-enameled wood chip box, with four height-adjustable grates rated to 25 lbs each for 1,235 sq in, electronic pulse ignition and a top damper. The wide-body chamber takes a turkey across rather than front-to-back.