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The Best Propane Gas Grills (2026): Every One Says 10 Years. Read Which Parts.

By The Smith Family, reviewed by Brad Smith · Independent, no paid placement · Updated September 13, 2026Prices checked September 2026

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Every full-size propane grill on the shelf says “10-year warranty” somewhere on the box. None of the tested roundups we read prints which parts that covers, or what the word “through” does to it. That is the page we built: four grills on wheels, each read signed in on Amazon with its critical tail on the same day, each set against the maker’s own warranty table, split into three tiers by the maker’s list price rather than a sale price.

This is a catchweight, compared by what you want to spend rather than by one price band, because the cart-grill field runs from a two-burner Weber to a six-burner Napoleon and the questions do not change across it: which parts are covered for how long, who is selling it, and what a tank of propane buys. Portable, tabletop and built-in grills are not on this page — the portable propane grill showdown covers tabletops and fold-up stand-ups, and the built-in gas grill showdown covers drop-in heads and the island they need.

Quick comparison

Model	Best for	Burners	BTU	Cooking area	Grates	Weight	Sold by	Warranty	Price
Weber Spirit E-325 Gas Grill (propane)	Best overall	3 stainless tube burners; Sear Zone from 2 Boost Burners	31,000 main burners	360 sq in primary + 90 sq in warming rack = 450	Porcelain-enameled cast iron; stainless Flavorizer bars	98 lb	Amazon.com	Cookbox and lid assembly 10 years, no rust-through or burn-through (paint 2 years, excluding fading or discoloration); stainless steel burner tubes 10 years; cooking grates and stainless Flavorizer bars 5 years; all remaining parts 2 years	Check price →
Weber Spirit E-210 Gas Grill (propane)	Best under $500	2 stainless tube burners; no sear zone	26,600 main burners	360 sq in primary + 90 sq in warming rack = 450	Porcelain-enameled cast iron; stainless Flavorizer bars	90 lb	Amazon.com	Cookbox and lid assembly 10 years, no rust-through or burn-through (paint 2 years, excluding fading or discoloration); stainless steel burner tubes 10 years; cooking grates and stainless Flavorizer bars 5 years; all remaining parts 2 years	Check price →
Weber Spirit E-425 Gas Grill (propane)	Best four-burner	4 stainless tube burners; Sear Zone from 2 Boost Burners	35,000 main burners	428 sq in primary + 105 sq in warming rack = 533	Porcelain-enameled cast iron; stainless Flavorizer bars	103 lb	Amazon.com	Cookbox and lid assembly 10 years, no rust-through or burn-through (paint 2 years, excluding fading or discoloration); stainless steel burner tubes 10 years; cooking grates and stainless Flavorizer bars 5 years; all remaining parts 2 years	Check price →
Napoleon Prestige 500 RSIB Propane Grill (P500RSIBPSS-3)	Best warranty paper	4 stainless tube main burners + infrared side burner + infrared rear rotisserie burner	48,000 main (4 x 12,000) + 14,000 side + 18,000 rear = 80,000	About 500 sq in main (the Amazon listing title)	Stainless WAVE cooking grids; a heavy cast-iron grate on the infrared side burner	196.6 lb	Spotix Inc — listed in Napoleon's dealer database	Hood, stainless and porcelain lids, aluminum castings, stainless cooking grids and stainless tube burners: lifetime; sear plates, porcelain cast-iron grids, infrared rotisserie and infrared side burner: 15 years; electrical components 3 years; all other parts 15 years — for products bought through an authorized Napoleon dealer	Check price →

Prices move constantly — any Amazon price shown is as of the date noted and subject to change; tap through for today's number.

How to read the ratings on this page. Every rating is an Amazon base we read ourselves, signed in, on 13 September 2026, with its critical tail. The three Webers’ visible review cards include owners in Canada and Mexico, so their bases are flagged global; every card on all four listings is a verified purchase and none is a Vine review. Each Spirit’s selector offers other trims — the E-310, a Smart model, a casters model — and we tested every one by reading the variant’s own listing: each carries its own count, so none of these bases is pooled. Napoleon’s listing is a single model whose critical reviews run from 2020 to this year.

Every grill says 10 years. Here is which parts.

A warranty badge is a headline. The table behind it is the warranty, and it is never one number. We read each maker’s table on its own site or in its own document.

Three things fall out of that table. Weber’s ten years is three parts — the cookbox, the lid and the burner tubes — and the parts a gas grill actually wears through first, the igniter, the regulator, the knobs, get two. Napoleon’s paper is the longest on the page by a distance, and it is conditional on the seller. And a stainless grill is not a rust warranty: Monument’s policy says that “rust, oxidation, discoloration, paint loss, or burn-through caused by environmental conditions or normal wear are not covered”, and Royal Gourmet’s FAQ says “RUST is not considered a manufacturing or material defect.”

Rust-through is not rust

The word that decides a grill warranty claim is through. Weber’s cookbox term is “no rust through/burn through”, with the paint covered for two years “excluding fading or discoloration”. Surface rust on a lid, a flaking cart, a speckled grate is not a hole, and the warranty is written for holes.

Napoleon’s manual says the same thing more bluntly: “failure” does not include “scratches, dents, corrosion, deterioration of painted and plated finishes, discoloration caused by heat”, or damage from “hostile environments such as salt or chlorine”. Then it puts a job on a Florida owner: “If you live in a coastal area, or have your product located near a pool or hot tub, maintenance includes regular washing and rinsing of the exterior surfaces.” A grill parked beside a pool is a maintenance commitment in writing, and it is the owner’s.

What a tank of propane buys you

None of the test roundups we read compute this. The inputs are published: the Propane Education & Research Council’s technical guide gives propane 21,548 BTU per pound and 91,502 per gallon, and each maker prints its burners’ rated input. Lowe’s sells Blue Rhino’s exchange as a “15-lb Pre-Filled” tank, while a refill station fills the same 20-pound cylinder to 20 pounds. Assume $20 for an exchange and $3.50 a gallon to refill — change the numbers to your own — and the rest is arithmetic:

Those are ceilings: nobody cooks with every burner on high for an hour, so a real cook costs a fraction of the figure. The ratio is the point. At those prices an exchange tank costs about 62 cents per 10,000 BTU and a refill about 38, so the exchange is roughly 60 percent more for the same heat, most of it because the tank arrives five pounds short. And the Napoleon’s extra burners are not free to run: all six on high burn propane about three times as fast as a Spirit E-210.

The four picks are split into tiers by the maker’s list price. The Spirit E-210 lists under $500. The E-325 and E-425 list between $500 and $1,000. The Napoleon is the premium tier. The crown sits in the middle tier, so it comes first.

Best overall: Weber Spirit E-325

One more burner, a Sear Zone from two Boost Burners, 31,000 BTU on the same 360-square-inch grate, and the strongest test record of any grill on the page. America’s Test Kitchen named it the winner of its gas-grill test: “Our winner is durable, reliable, and easy to maintain, and it functioned better than any other grill we tested,” with a cookbox it describes as “solid cast aluminum with a thick, tight-fitting enameled steel lid”. CNET’s May 2026 update: “The Weber Spirit E-325 was tested and added as the best overall gas grill.” It is $499 on Amazon against a $549 list, sold by Amazon, with 4.4★ across 266 ratings.

Not for you if you need the warranty to cover the parts that break first. The ten years is the cookbox, the lid and the burner tubes; the grates and Flavorizer bars are five-year parts and “all remaining parts” are two. The critical tail is about those parts and the service behind them: a paid assembly that could not be finished because “the parts WERE DEFECTIVE”; a grease rail missing from the box that Weber’s chat would not send; a box with no hardware, where the owner was told to pay for the screws; a regulator hose that leaked, and a replacement that “leaks worse than the previous one”; a grill six weeks old whose replacement regulator was still on order. One owner who moved from a Weber Q says it “needs significantly more propane”. Serious Eats, for its part, thought it “performed similarly to the E-310” despite the sear zone. It is the best overall because two independent benches crowned it, Amazon sells it, and the tail is parts rather than cooking — but check every part against the manual before you throw away the box.

Winner

Our top pick

Weber Spirit E-325 Gas Grill (propane)

Best overall · The three-burner Spirit with a Sear Zone, 360 square inches under the lid plus a 90-square-inch rack, and the credentialed record: America's Test Kitchen's winner and CNET's best overall. 4.4★ across 266 owners on a listing sold by Amazon, and Weber's own table gives the cookbox, lid and burner tubes ten years against rust-through — and everything it does not name, two

Your pick if you cook for four to six, want a sear zone and the grill two independent test kitchens crowned, and you will read the warranty as a parts list — 4.4★ across 266. Not for a buyer who wants a closed cart: the back of the cabinet is open.

4.4 · 266 owner ratingsacross Amazon · 2026-09-13 · global base

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Sold and shipped by Amazon · Non-returnable · read 2026-10-08

Picked before we checked what this link pays us.

Also at: Weber

Pro review America's Test Kitchen

“Our winner is durable, reliable, and easy to maintain, and it functioned better than any other grill we tested.”

Weber Spirit E-325 Gas Grill (propane)

Best overall

Your pick if you cook for four to six, want a sear zone and the grill two independent test kitchens crowned, and you will read the warranty as a parts list — 4.4★ across 266. Not for a buyer who wants a closed cart: the back of the cabinet is open.

4.4 · 266 owner ratingsAmazon · 2026-09-13 · global base

Pro review “Our winner is durable, reliable, and easy to maintain, and it functioned better than any other grill we tested.”— Chase Brightwell, America's Test Kitchen

Pros

• America's Test Kitchen's winner and CNET's best overall gas grill — two hands-on tests, two different benches
• A Sear Zone from two Boost Burners on a three-burner grill, where the two-burner E-210 has none
• Sold and shipped by Amazon.com on this listing, so returns run through Amazon and not a marketplace seller
• Ten years on the cookbox, lid and burner tubes against rust-through and burn-through, in Weber's own table

Cons

• The ten years is three parts. Grates and Flavorizer bars get five, and 'all remaining parts' — the igniter, regulator, cart and knobs — get two
• The cabinet has a front door and no back panel: an owner's dogs nose into the drip tray from behind
• Critical cards describe missing or bent parts, a missing grease rail Weber's chat would not ship, and a regulator on back-order six weeks after purchase
• Serious Eats thought it 'performed similarly to the E-310' despite the sear zone and the higher price

What owners complain aboutDefect reports

Parts and service, not cooking. A paid assembly could not be finished because parts were defective (March 2026); a grease rail missing from the box that Weber's chat would not send as a warranty part (July 2026); a box with no hardware at all, where Weber told the Amazon buyer to pay for the screws (July 2026); a regulator hose that leaked, and its replacement leaked worse (November 2025); a grill that had not worked in six weeks with its replacement regulator still on order (September 2026); dented panels and out-of-sequence instructions. One owner coming from a Weber Q says it needs 'significantly more propane', and one wishes the back were closed.

33 critical reviews among 266 ratings (7 percent one star); 10 critical cards read signed-in 2026-09-13, all Verified Purchase, 0 Vine, all US · critical reviews read 2026-09-13

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Sold and shipped by Amazon · Non-returnable · read 2026-10-08

Also at: Weber

✓ Safety: no active recallCPSC Recall API queried 2026-09-13 by RecallTitle ('Weber'): 2 records, #03180 (2003) and #07122 (2007), both gas grills two decades before this generation. Positive control the same sitting: ProductName 'heater' returned 181 records. The category's newest gas-grill recall is #26605 (2026-07-09), Conair's Cuisinart Propel+ 3-in-1 cart grill — not a Weber and not on this page.

Best under $500: Weber Spirit E-210

The two-burner Spirit is the grill most tested roundups name when they name a budget pick, and it has a real reason to be there: the same 360 square inches of primary grate as the three-burner E-325, porcelain-enameled cast-iron grates and stainless Flavorizer bars, 26,600 BTU, and the full Spirit warranty table. It is $399 on Amazon, sold and shipped by Amazon, against a $549 list, with 4.5★ across 253 ratings behind it. Wirecutter, which tested it against other budget grills: “Though it’s smaller than the other budget grills we tested, it outperformed them. In our testing the E-210 produced a steady, solid sear without ever flaring up, and it was also capable of cooking gently.”

Not for you if you want to sear hard, or leave the grill uncovered. There is no sear zone, and Business Insider found it “cooks faster in the back than towards the front”. The critical tail is the build: “Prepare for 3+ hrs to put it together and a wheelbarrow full of cardboard and plastic bags to dispose of”; a box without enough screws; a temperature gauge “stuck on 700 degrees right out of box”; “a part failed within the first 30 days”. And three separate owners name the open back — the cabinet has a front door and no rear panel, so “the absence of a back panel exposes it to the wind”, rain “filling the drip pan”, and “my dog can lick the drip pan from the back of the grill”. Buy a cover with it.

Weber Spirit E-210 Gas Grill (propane)

Best under $500

Your pick if you cook for two to four, want a Weber cookbox and warranty for the least money, and do not need a sear zone — 4.5★ across 253. Not for a buyer who leaves a grill uncovered: the back is open and owners report rain in the drip pan.

4.5 · 253 owner ratingsAmazon · 2026-09-13 · global base

Pro review “Though it's smaller than the other budget grills we tested, it outperformed them. In our testing the E-210 produced a steady, solid sear without ever flaring up, and it was also capable of cooking gently.”— Kathleen Squires, Wirecutter

Pros

• Wirecutter's budget pick, Business Insider's best budget and Serious Eats' best two-burner — hands-on tests, not desk picks
• The same 360 square inches of primary grate as the three-burner E-325
• Sold and shipped by Amazon.com on this listing
• The full Spirit warranty table: ten years on the cookbox, lid and burner tubes against rust-through

Cons

• Two burners, no sear zone: The Barbecue Lab says it 'struggled some with high temperature searing'
• No back panel. Three separate critical cards name it — wind wastes gas, rain fills the drip pan, and a dog reaches the tray
• Assembly is the loudest complaint: three-plus hours, missing screws an owner bought himself, and a temperature gauge stuck at 700 out of the box
• Grates, bars and every unnamed part are five- and two-year parts, not ten

What owners complain aboutDefect reports

Assembly, the open back, and a build owners call a step down from older Spirits. Critical cards: 'Prepare for 3+ hrs to put it together and a wheelbarrow full of cardboard' (April 2026); not enough screws, $9 of hardware bought to finish (September 2026); a temperature gauge stuck on 700 degrees out of the box (December 2025); 'a part failed within the first 30 days' (March 2026); a dented door Weber called outside its out-of-box window (June 2026); and three owners on the missing back panel — wind that wastes gas, rain in the drip pan, a dog at the tray. One owner could not cook a burger in 40 to 50 minutes with the gauge at 500.

25 critical reviews among 253 ratings (4 percent one star); 10 critical cards read signed-in 2026-09-13, all Verified Purchase, 0 Vine, all US · critical reviews read 2026-09-13

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✓ Safety: no active recallCPSC Recall API queried 2026-09-13 by RecallTitle ('Weber'): 2 records, #03180 (2003) and #07122 (2007), both gas grills two decades before this generation. Positive control the same sitting: ProductName 'heater' returned 181 records. The category's newest gas-grill recall is #26605 (2026-07-09), Conair's Cuisinart Propel+ 3-in-1 cart grill — not a Weber and not on this page.

Best four-burner: Weber Spirit E-425

Four burners at 35,000 BTU, the Sear Zone, and 428 square inches of primary grate — a fifth more than the E-325 — for $629 on Amazon against a $679 list. It is Wirecutter’s top pick: “The four-burner Weber Spirit E-425 heats up quickly. And in testing, it was the most consistent when cooking at both high and low temperatures: It turned out satisfyingly seared beef, crisply roasted whole chicken, and delicately charred eggplant.” 4.4★ across 169 ratings, sold by Amazon.

Not for you if you want the quietest owner record. It has the thinnest base of the three Spirits and the heaviest one-star share, and its tail is gas delivery: a grill that after a paid assembly “would not ignite or stay lit” with a faulty manifold and weeks of silence from Weber; another that “Didn’t stay lit”; a leak; and a tank fitting that hisses unless seated in “the sweet spot”, which the owner found to be “a fairly common problem”. Good Housekeeping’s August 2026 roundup adds that it “didn’t show excellent heat distribution during testing”. And weber.com showed Notify me rather than Add to Cart when we read it. Buy it when a crowd is a regular event, not for the extra 68 square inches alone.

Weber Spirit E-425 Gas Grill (propane)

Best four-burner

Your pick if you feed a crowd often enough that 428 square inches matters, and want Wirecutter's top pick with the Weber table behind it — 4.4★ across 169. Not for a buyer who wants the quietest record: 9 percent of its owners gave it one star, and the tail is gas fittings and service.

4.4 · 169 owner ratingsAmazon · 2026-09-13 · global base

Pro review “The four-burner Weber Spirit E-425 heats up quickly. And in testing, it was the most consistent when cooking at both high and low temperatures: It turned out satisfyingly seared beef, crisply roasted whole chicken, and delicately charred eggplant.”— Kathleen Squires, Wirecutter

Pros

• Wirecutter's top pick: 'satisfyingly seared beef, crisply roasted whole chicken, and delicately charred eggplant'
• 428 square inches of primary grate, against 360 on the E-325 and E-210
• A Sear Zone and four burners for an extra $130 over the E-325 at today's prices
• Sold and shipped by Amazon.com on this listing

Cons

• The heaviest one-star share of the three Spirits here, 9 percent, on the thinnest base
• The critical tail is gas delivery: a faulty manifold that would not stay lit after a paid assembly, a leak, and a tank fitting that 'hisses' unless seated just so
• Good Housekeeping's August 2026 roundup says it 'didn't show excellent heat distribution during testing'
• weber.com showed 'Notify me' rather than Add to Cart at our read — Amazon had it in stock

What owners complain aboutDefect reports

Gas delivery and service. A grill that after a paid assembly 'would not ignite or stay lit' from a faulty manifold, with Weber unresponsive for weeks (March 2026); 'Didn't stay lit' with support telling the owner to reset the regulator (June 2026); a leak (May 2026); a tank fitting that hisses unless seated in 'the sweet spot', which the owner found to be 'a fairly common problem' (May 2025); and bent or missing parts in the box on four cards. Two owners say they would buy it at Home Depot instead of Amazon.

16 critical reviews among 169 ratings (9 percent one star); 10 critical cards read signed-in 2026-09-13, all Verified Purchase, 0 Vine, all US · critical reviews read 2026-09-13

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✓ Safety: no active recallCPSC Recall API queried 2026-09-13 by RecallTitle ('Weber'): 2 records, #03180 (2003) and #07122 (2007), both gas grills two decades before this generation. Positive control the same sitting: ProductName 'heater' returned 181 records. The category's newest gas-grill recall is #26605 (2026-07-09), Conair's Cuisinart Propel+ 3-in-1 cart grill — not a Weber and not on this page.

Best warranty paper: Napoleon Prestige 500 RSIB

The one grill here with an infrared side burner and an infrared rear rotisserie burner, and the longest warranty on the page. AmazingRibs, which cooked on it, prints the burners: four 12,000 BTU main burners, an 18,000 BTU rear rotisserie burner and a 14,000 BTU infrared burner on the side table, 80,000 BTU in all. Its verdict: “The Napoleon Prestige P500RSIB is a very nice, high-end, cart-mounted, gas grill at an affordable price, competitive with Weber Summit, Saber’s all stainless models and Broil King’s Imperial Series, but it is not the top of the line Napoleon.” Napoleon’s Limited Lifetime table covers the hood, both lids, the aluminum castings, the stainless cooking grids and the stainless tube burners for life; sear plates, cast-iron grids, the infrared burners and all other parts for fifteen years; the electrical components for three. It is $1,879 on Amazon with 4.4★ across 363 ratings, the deepest base on the page.

Who is selling it matters, and we checked. Napoleon’s warranty applies to “products purchased through an authorized Napoleon dealer”. The seller on this listing is Spotix. Amazon’s seller profile gives its business name as Spotix Inc at 2810 Stoner Court, North Liberty, Iowa; Napoleon’s own Dealer Database lists Spotix, Inc at 2810 Stoner Ct in North Liberty for the Prestige, Prestige PRO and Rogue lines. That is a match. Napoleon publishes nothing about Amazon marketplace sellers in general, so if the buy box moves to someone else, check them against Napoleon’s dealer locator first.

Not for you if you want the current model or a tester’s crown. Napoleon’s warranty portal now titles this grill the Legacy Prestige 500 RSIB; the current model is the Prestige 500 Connected, which adds Wi-Fi, an LCD display and a larger rear and side burner, and which we could not find as a grill listing on Amazon. Two test kitchens passed on this one: Serious Eats found it “heated too unevenly”, and Food & Wine “left us disappointed with its searing. The burgers lacked grill marks, and most of the fat on the steaks didn’t render.” The owners’ tail agrees about heat and adds build: “large cold spots across the grill. Frame is flimsy”; a lower cabinet “PAINTED a charcoal gray, not stainless steel” with plastic handles; a grill left on a pallet by the mailbox. Buy it for the paper and the burners, from a dealer, knowingly.

Napoleon Prestige 500 RSIB Propane Grill (P500RSIBPSS-3)

Best warranty paper

Your pick if you want the parts that rust covered for life, an infrared side burner and a rotisserie burner in the box, and you are happy buying the outgoing generation from a Napoleon dealer — 4.4★ across 363. Not for a buyer who wants a tester's crown: Serious Eats and Food & Wine both passed on it.

4.4 · 363 owner ratingsAmazon · 2026-09-13

Pro review “The Napoleon Prestige P500RSIB is a very nice, high-end, cart-mounted, gas grill at an affordable price, competitive with Weber Summit, Saber's all stainless models and Broil King's Imperial Series, but it is not the top of the line Napoleon.”— Meathead, AmazingRibs

Pros

• The longest warranty on the page: lifetime on the hood, lids, castings, stainless grids and tube burners, and fifteen years on everything else except the electrics
• An infrared side burner and an infrared rear rotisserie burner on the grill, where every Weber here has neither
• Sold by Spotix Inc, whose Amazon seller address matches the Spotix, Inc entry in Napoleon's dealer database — the channel Napoleon's warranty requires
• AmazingRibs cooked on it and calls it 'a very nice, high-end, cart-mounted, gas grill at an affordable price'

Cons

• Napoleon's warranty portal titles this model the Legacy Prestige 500 RSIB; the current Prestige 500 Connected adds Wi-Fi, an LCD display and a larger rear and side burner
• Two test kitchens passed on it: Serious Eats found it 'heated too unevenly' and Food & Wine was 'disappointed with its searing'
• The critical tail: large cold spots and a frame one owner calls flimsy, a lower cabinet painted rather than stainless, and a grill delivered on a pallet to assemble
• Napoleon's warranty excludes 'hostile environments such as salt or chlorine', and makes rinsing part of the maintenance for a coastal or poolside grill
• The dealer clause is load-bearing: if the buy box moves to another seller, check that seller is a Napoleon dealer before you pay

What owners complain aboutDefect reports

Build quality for the money and uneven heat. 'Heat output is very poor, with large cold spots across the grill. Frame is flimsy and subject to warping' (April 2025); 'all of bottom cabinet is PAINTED a charcoal gray, not stainless steel' with plastic handles (June 2025); cabinet doors badly uneven after a professional assembly (2020); a grill that 'went up in flames' on its second use (2022); an infrared side burner with no spark (2023); a pallet left by the mailbox and a 'nightmare' assembly (2022); 'terrible on temp control' (July 2025); parts that did not belong to the grill (April 2026).

37 critical reviews among 363 ratings (9 percent one star); 10 critical cards read signed-in 2026-09-13, all Verified Purchase, 0 Vine, all US · critical reviews read 2026-09-13

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✓ Safety: no active recallCPSC Recall API queried 2026-09-13 by RecallTitle ('Napoleon'): 1 record, #14218 (2014), Wolf Steel's Napoleon propane gas FIREPLACES for a laceration hazard — not a grill. Positive control the same sitting: ProductName 'heater' returned 181 records. The category's newest gas-grill recall is #26605 (2026-07-09), Conair's Cuisinart Propel+ 3-in-1 — not on this page.

Weber’s model letters and the retailer split

The different Spirit trims crowned across the roundups we read are not different grills. They are one platform in trims, and the letters tell you which:

• E is the base: porcelain-enameled cast-iron grates, stainless Flavorizer bars, a hood thermometer. All three Spirits on this page are E trims.
• EP adds, in Weber’s own list for the EP-425, “a digital thermometer”, a “Stainless steel control panel”, “Stainless steel side tables with one that folds” and locking swivel casters — on the same porcelain-enameled cast-iron grates.
• EX is the Smart grill: a “Wi-Fi® enabled digital thermometer” that pairs with the Weber Connect app.
• C trims ride on casters; Stealth and Titanium are finishes.

Some trims are retailer exclusives. Weber’s Canadian store lists the Spirit EP-425 Stealth Edition as “Retailer Exclusive” with a Find a retailer button where a buy button would be. So a roundup’s “Spirit EP-425” and this page’s “Spirit E-425” are the same four burners and the same grates with different tables, casters and thermometers — and a big-box store’s exclusive may not be the number a review tested. Match the model number, not the name.

The ones we did not card

We read more than a dozen other full-size cart grills signed in on Amazon on 12 September 2026. These are the ones a reader would expect to see, and why they are not cards.

• Weber Genesis E-325. Wirecutter’s upgrade pick and Serious Eats’ best for versatility, on a deep Amazon base sold by a dealer — and not on Weber’s current US Genesis page, which lists the E-325W Titanium Edition, the E-330, E-415, E-435 and S-415, but no plain E-325. It may be a fine grill; it is the previous one.
• Char-Broil Performance Series FlavorMax 4-burner. Wirecutter: “we had to extinguish a raging inferno on the Charbroil Performance Series FlavorMax 4-burner, which was scary and unsafe. For this reason, we eliminated it in the first round.” America’s Test Kitchen, on model 463219225: “the diffusers collected a large amount of grease that ignited, causing unruly and potentially dangerous flare-ups.” The Performance 4-burner cabinet listing we read on Amazon does not say FlavorMax in its title, and its own critical tail describes grease fires and billowing smoke. CNET, testing a Performance Series 4-burner, made it a budget pick — the split is real and we would not buy into it.
• Char-Broil Pro Series. Wirecutter found “the Charbroil Pro was extremely smoky and prone to dangerous flare-ups”, and the Amplifire 4+1 listing we read names a model that Char-Broil’s own catalogue did not list.
• Monument Mesa 415BZ. Real test praise and an early owner base — but its tail includes a grill that “catches fire”, lid glass that shattered from the heat and surface rust in five months, and Monument’s own policy excludes environmental rust and burn-through and “third-party Amazon sellers not authorized by Monument Grills”.
• Ninja FlexFlame. A genuinely different grill with test wins for versatility, but CNET’s con is “Must be plugged in to operate”, and on Amazon the PG301 and PG305 listings return an identical count and histogram — one pooled base across two models.
• EUHOME 4-burner. The deepest base in the budget band, on a listing whose detail table names the model “ENDARKGASGRILL-2” — an Endark under another badge — with two colours sharing one base and an igniter and flare-up theme in the recent reviews.
• MASTER COOK 3-burner. The deepest base in the whole category and a grill made by Zefeel under the MASTER COOK name; its 439 critical reviews describe grate bars far enough apart for food to fall through, and we found no warranty document to read.

What to know before you buy

• Read the warranty as a parts list. Ten years on a Weber is the cookbox, lid and burner tubes. Grates are five; the igniter, regulator and cart are two.
• Check who is selling it. The three Webers here are sold by Amazon. The Napoleon is sold by Spotix Inc, which is in Napoleon’s dealer database; if the buy box moves, check the new seller before you pay.
• Cover it. Two Spirits’ tails name the open back. Every warranty here excludes surface rust, and Napoleon puts rinsing a poolside grill in the owner’s maintenance.
• Refill, don’t exchange, if you can. At our assumed prices an exchange costs about 60 percent more for the same heat, because it arrives with 15 pounds, not 20.
• Inspect every part before you assemble. Missing hardware, bent panels, a missing grease rail and leaking regulators are the tail on all four listings, and a paid assembly does not fix a missing part.
• Compare model numbers, not names. E, EP, EX and the retailer exclusives are the same Spirit in different trims.

Bottom line: buy the Weber Spirit E-325 from Amazon if you want the grill two test kitchens crowned and can live with a two-year igniter; buy the E-210 if you cook for two or three and want the Weber paper for the least money; buy the E-425 if a crowd is a regular event; and buy the Napoleon Prestige 500 RSIB from a Napoleon dealer if the lifetime table and the infrared burners matter more to you than the current model or an even grate.

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Ten portable charcoal grills read on their own listings on 18 October 2026, every critical revi…

Updated Oct 2026

Catchweight

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The Best Gravity-Fed Smokers (2026): The Masterbuilt 1150 Two Test Kitchens Liked, Food & Wine's AutoIgnite 545, and Three Burn Times on One Hopper

Seven gravity-fed charcoal smokers read signed in on their own Amazon listings on 17 October 20…

Updated Oct 2026

Welterweight · $729–$1,220

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The Best Offset Smokers Over $700 (2026): Longhorn Reverse Flow vs Broil King Regal, and the Steel Only Two Makers Print

Offset smokers from $700 to $1,000 read on their own listings on 18 October 2026, every critica…

Updated Oct 2026

Pound-for-Pound

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recteq Staq vs Grilla Mammoth vs Pit Boss Navigator 6: The Best Vertical Pellet Smoker of 2026

The Grilla Mammoth is the best vertical pellet smoker of 2026: a tester's overnight cook at 225…

Updated Oct 2026