8 Best Indoor and Smokeless Grills - Best Smokeless and Electric Grills

We updated this article in April 2022 to remove out-of-stock models, provide additional information for each pick and add detail on how the experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute tested indoor grills. We also added new recommendations from and .

Maybe you’re lucky enough to spend summer outside flipping burgers on the grill. But not everyone has a backyard or deck for an outdoor grill. And what if you want to grill in the off-season? Our pros have a solution: an indoor grill. These appliances are small enough to fit on your countertop and work great for burgers, chicken, vegetables and more. Best of all, food will look (and taste!) like you grilled it outside.

Our experts in the Good Housekeeping Institute Kitchen Appliances and Culinary Innovation Lab regularly test grills, including gas grills, charcoal grills, pellet grills and smokers, and so much more. For indoor grills, we put the top models to the test and evaluated the performance of each grill for how quickly and evenly they heated up – dozens of burgers were grilled and pounds of chicken breasts were cooked to determine how well the grills seared. Our testers also evaluated each indoor grill on ease of use, grease drainage and how easy they were to clean. Here are the best indoor grills you can buy in 2022, according to testing and popular reviews.