The Best Grill Pan for Great Searing and Beautiful Char, Tested and Reviewed

For apartment dwellers who have no access to a yard, grill-marked chops and veggies can sometimes inspire feelings of wistful longing. Wouldn’t that be nice, we think, admiring those telltale crosshatches that brag, “yep, I cooked this outside.” There is one small offering for us, though, and it’s a grill pan.

A grill pan not only achieves the trademark lines, but to a degree it can replicate an outdoor grill’s elemental pleasure, yielding lustful blistering and charring on our favorite foods. It’s not exactly the same since a stovetop won’t generate the smoky flavors of a charcoal grill (but neither will a gas grill). There will, however, be heat and splatter, and there will be grill marks, which you won’t get from a griddle or frying pan.

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And even if you do have an outdoor BBQ setup, a grill pan can still be a nice addition to your arsenal. They give that grill feel inside when the weather might be too cold to cook outside, and cast-iron models can go right onto grill grates, creating a cooking surface that’s friendlier to small or skinny items prone to slipping down into the coals, like asparagus or shrimp.

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In our tests we determined that the best grill pans produce defined grill marks, had even heat distribution, good heat retention, and offered plenty of space to arrange whatever it is you’re cooking. And as is the case with barbecue cooking, they should also thrive over high heat. Given the range of materials, coatings, sizes, depths, and shapes, it can be a dizzying task to choose which one will be right for you. So read on for our top picks. And to learn more about what we think makes one pan better than another and how we tested grill pans, scroll further down.

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Le Creuset is known for its beautiful, high quality cookware that comes in an array of striking colors. Like its world-class Dutch ovens, the Le Creuset Signature Square Skillet Grill is enameled cast iron, which, while not a perfect nonstick coating, does prevent food from getting too glued on. Weighing in at a light (compared to others we tested) 6.5 pounds, the Signature Square Skillet can work on electric, gas, and induction cooktops, not to mention stand up to 500℉ oven temperatures and safe under a broiler. When a burner is cranked to medium-high, the pan doesn’t take long to heat up and retains its heat throughout the cooking process. As an added bonus, it’s completely dishwasher-safe (though hand-washing is recommended), and it comes in 12 colors (natch).

If you’re looking to sear larger items, the Le Creuset size might be limiting. And with a price tag ranging from $185 to $225, it is certainly an investment.

Like the Le Creuset, this US-made grill pan is destined to become a coveted piece of cookware you’ll pass down to your kids. It was the most spacious of any grill pans we tested and had the tallest, most sharply cut grates, which yielded the most defined sear marks. A hefty pan, weighing almost 11 pounds, it really stays put on the stovetop.This means that it takes longer to preheat; but the payoff is that it heats more evenly — even into the further reaches of the pan, away from the heat source — than any others that we used.

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