If It's Hip, It's Here (Archives): The Hottest Outdoor Grills On the Market: These are Smokin!

Ahhhh, Fourth of July weekend. Time for outdoor BBQ's, pool parties and illegal fireworks. If you're thinking of grilling, how about firing up those steaks on a beautifully designed outdoor modern grill?

Viking, Dacor, Lynx, Weber, Vidalia and other professional cooking grills and barbeques are impressive but tend to be mammoth blocks of stainless steel. I wanted to find some that were a little more unusual in their design.

So, I scoured the web and found some beautiful freestanding outdoor barbeques and grills. Indeed there are several stunning portable bbqs /grills and built in kitchen island grills, but today I'm just featuring freestanding models of elegant and functional design.

1. Designer Piet Hein Eek's steel barbeque:

€ 1.054,00 Learn more or buy it here.

2. Jeppe Utzon's BBQ for Electrolux:

The Electrolux Jeppe Utzon barbeque features premium grade materials including ScotchBrite Stainless and Corian, a battery-operated spark mechanism for each burner, gas shut-off safety system, grill and hotplate areas and a lightweight fabric cover.

The Electrolux Jeppe Utzon barbeque was created by the grandson of the legendary Jorn Utzon and, like the Sydney Opera House, it's another bold statement in Australian design.
Learn more here.

3. Beltempo:
The Hotwater gas barbeque from Beltempo has a Stainless steel plate structure and details in solid tropical wood Cumaru. Includes grill, butcher's board and cast iron cooking plate.

Learn more about it here.

4. Kalamazoo Grills

Above: The Kalamazoo Edo grill shown closed

Above: Kalamazoo The Edo grill shown open
Kalamazoo Edo Grill Dimensions: 48.5"W (78"W open) x 31.5"D x 38.25"H
EDO Base Price: $7,495

above: Kalamazoo's Classic Sculpture grill

Kalamazoo Sculpture Grill Dimensions: 38.25"W x 24"D x 42"H
Sculpture Base Price: $6,495

Both Kalamazoo grills above are available with custom laser-cut stainless steel cooking surface combining your choice of grilling patterns optimized for meat, fish and vegetable grilling and customizable with your initials, logo or other artwork:

Above: #1 Dad and letter "B" custom stainless grilltops.

Learn more here.

5. Onafalos by Smartech Italia
The Onfalos Grill has the fun option to add colored Corian petals:

Made of Corian, the petals may be purchased in a range of six colours to customize Onfalos according to taste and setting. Petals are available in three sizes, one for each model.

Learn more about the Onfalos made by Smartech Italia, here.

6. Fuego grills

Fuego's 01 and 02 grills are so beautiful, I'd be tempted to put it in the livingroom!
Modern and streamlined, it comes in two sizes.

Fuego is also coming out with a modular outdoor kitchen designed by Robert Brunner:

Learn more about Fuego here.

7. Viteo outdoor
Viteo, who makes some of my favorite outdoor furniture has a minimal modular BBQ that can be a component of their outdoor kitchen or as a freestanding unit:

Learn more about it here.

8. Evo's flattop grills

Evo is a line of professional grills wih round flat grilltops. They have 6 models for the home chef. Learn more here.

9. Luxius grills

Luxius by Newtrend combine stainless with oak and granite for a line of beautiful outdoor grills.

Newtrend has commissioned De Bats architects to design two outdoor kitchens around the Luxius grills. Named the Boretti grills, they are made with stainless steel, oak and granite.
Learn more here.

10. The Grandhall T Grill, a contemporary compact grill, is as pretty on the eyes as it will be on your kabobs:

Learn more about it here.

11. Radius Design
Radius Design makes the following grills, all designed by Ralph Kraeuter.
The sleek Radius Edelstahl Gasgrill:

and their Blitz grills:

And their grilltisch, an outdoor table designed to seat four or six with an integrated grill:

learn more about Radius grills here.

12. Conmoto grills
The sleek and sexy Taurus grill for Conmoto was designed by Michael Seiger:

Made of blackened stainless steel with virtually invisible casters.

The Magic grill designed by Fried Ulber for Conmoto is a straight-lined fireplace and barbecue in one.

Learn more about Conmoto grills here.

13. Encompasso's Leiro outdoor grills:

The Leiro range of barbeques are created around clean modern design and highly practical features, which include; Leiro barbeques are made in high-grade stainless steel, which is weather proof and requires no maintenance. Massively solid construction; built for a lifetime of use.
Learn more here.

14. Artepuro grills