Your first setup. Your next great meal.

Practical guides to outdoor cooking and the gear that earns its place.

Griddles

Where it will live, how much surface you need and which features change daily use. A practical way to narrow down a first outdoor griddle.

Tools

You don't need a 30-piece set to start. Here are the few griddle tools that matter, what each one does and what can wait.

Griddles

A griddle cooks on a flat steel plate and a grill cooks over grates. Here's how that changes your meals, cleanup and first purchase.

A note from Charles

Learning as we go.

Sizzlefolk is where I explore outdoor cooking, useful gear and the decisions behind a practical first setup.