Equipment
Flat-Top Griddle
A solid steel cooking surface (Blackstone, Camp Chef) for smash burgers, breakfast, fajitas, and high-volume cooking.
Flat-top griddles trade the live-fire flavor of a grill for a vast solid steel cooking surface that gets ripping hot and edge-to-edge sears anything you put on it. Perfect for smash burgers, hibachi-style stir fry, breakfast for a crowd, fajitas, and anything that would fall through grill grates. Requires seasoning like a cast iron skillet.
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