How the Five Compare on the Numbers
This search term returns four grills and a toolbox. The fifth listing here is a 35 piece accessory kit of spatulas, scrapers, a griddle press, tongs and oil bottles sold to go with a Blackstone or a Camp Chef. It is included because the pool holds nothing else, and it is worth knowing about, but nothing in it cooks. Every comparison below is between the four griddles.
Weight is published on three of the four grills. Royal Gourmet is 87.5 pounds, the heaviest here by a wide margin, which is what a four burner cart with two side tables comes to. VEVOR is 37 pounds for a countertop plate. Chefman is the lightest of the three at 4.4 pounds. Blackstone publishes no weight at all, which on a wheeled cart you assemble yourself is a real omission.
What the table cannot tell you is heat output on the gas pair. Blackstone mentions requiring fewer BTUs for its cooking temperatures and never states how many it has. Royal Gourmet names four burners and no figure for any of them. On a griddle, output and plate thickness together decide recovery time when a tray of cold burgers hits the steel, and no listing here publishes both.
Four Griddles and a Toolbox
What the Fifth Listing Actually Is
The EWFEN entry is a 35 piece kit: a long griddle spatula, a long slotted spatula, a large burger turner, a slant edge scraper, a small spatula, a griddle flipper, a slotted turner, a griddle press and tongs among them, in a gift box, stated dishwasher safe and made of stainless steel. It is sold explicitly for use with Blackstone and Camp Chef griddles.
It appears in this search because a flat top grill is useless without a scraper and two turners, and none of the four griddles here includes a single tool. If you buy the Blackstone or the Royal Gourmet, something like this kit is a second purchase you have not budgeted for, which is the only reason it earns a place on this page.
Gas Outside, Electric Inside
The four real griddles split down the middle. Blackstone and Royal Gourmet are gas carts for a patio, with side tables, grease cups and covers, and between them they publish every square inch figure on this page. VEVOR and Chefman are electric countertop plates that plug into a socket, and between them they publish every temperature figure on this page.
That split is not a coincidence. Gas makers sell area because a burner’s output is hard to translate into anything a cook recognizes. Electric makers sell degrees because a thermostat gives them a number to print. Neither camp publishes what the other does, so choosing between a gas cart and an electric plate cannot be done on figures at all.
Cooking Area, Stated Four Ways
Square Inches, Burgers and Plate Sizes
Blackstone is the most generous with figures and the only listing to count food: 524 square inches of cooking space, 28 inches across, and 21 burgers or 15 pancakes on it at once. Those last two are the only numbers on this page a buyer can picture without arithmetic, and they are the reason this listing reads as the most confident of the four.
VEVOR publishes 21 by 12 inches and repeats it as 540 by 300 mm, which is the only metric statement of a cooking surface here. Chefman publishes 10 by 20 inches and puts it in the title. Neither electric griddle publishes a square inch figure, so comparing either against the Blackstone means doing the multiplication yourself from a length and a width.
Two Zones on One Cart
Royal Gourmet is the only pick that is two appliances on one frame, and it publishes both halves: 314 square inches of grill and 296 square inches of griddle, side by side with individual cooking zones. Together those two figures exceed the Blackstone’s single 524 square inch surface, but they cannot be used as one surface.
That matters for how you cook rather than how much you cook. A flat top and a grate do different things to the same steak, and having both means you never move food to a second appliance. What Royal Gourmet does not publish is a burner count per zone, so whether the grill side and the griddle side can run at different temperatures is not stated anywhere in the listing.
Plate Thickness and Heat Control
The Only Two Listings That Publish a Thickness
VEVOR publishes 0.4 inches and converts it to 10 mm. Royal Gourmet publishes 3 mm of ceramic coated steel. That is a real gap, and thickness on a griddle is what buys you a surface that does not drop 100 degrees when the food lands. Blackstone and Chefman publish no plate thickness at all, which on a griddle is the most consequential missing figure of the lot.
The two also treat the surface differently. Royal Gourmet uses a ceramic coating and frames it around oxidation, saying the coated top needs comparatively little maintenance to keep looking new. VEVOR names iron and states it contains no PFOA, alongside a second acronym that is spelled wrong in its own bullet. Chefman says nonstick and Blackstone names no material for its plate anywhere.
Degrees on the Electrics, Nothing on the Gas
VEVOR publishes 122 to 572 F, and gives it in Celsius as 50 to 300, which is by far the widest range on this page and the only ceiling above 500. Chefman publishes 200 to 420 F, which stops well short of a sear. If the plan is crusted burgers rather than pancakes, that ceiling is the line that separates these two electric griddles.
Neither gas listing publishes a temperature or a BTU figure. Blackstone gets closest and manages to say nothing useful, claiming that its Omnivore plate reaches optimal cooking temperatures with fewer BTUs required, without ever stating how many it uses or what optimal means. Royal Gourmet names four burners and leaves output entirely alone.
Which One Fits Your Kitchen
A crowd on the patio. Blackstone publishes 524 square inches over 28 inches, with 21 burgers or 15 pancakes on it at once, a rear grease cup, two counter height side shelves, two wheels, an integrated hood and electric ignition. It publishes no weight and no plate thickness.
Grilling and griddling without moving the food. Royal Gourmet publishes two zones, 314 square inches of grill and 296 of griddle, on 3 mm ceramic coated steel, with two fixed side tables, a removable grease tray and cup, and a fabric cover. At 87.5 pounds it is the heaviest pick here.
A searing hot plate indoors. VEVOR publishes 122 to 572 F on 1600 W, a 21 by 12 inch surface and a 0.4 inch plate, against 3 mm on the only other griddle to publish one. It weighs 37 pounds on a countertop, supplies a cleaning brush, and names no warranty.
Breakfast for a full table, then the dishwasher. Chefman publishes 10 by 20 inches at 1500 W, 200 to 420 F, and a cook top that is fully immersible and dishwasher safe once the temperature control is removed. It is UL approved with a one year assurance, at 4.4 pounds.
The tools none of the four include. EWFEN is a 35 piece stainless kit with long spatulas, a burger turner, a slant edge scraper, a griddle press, tongs, oil bottles and a basting cover, stated dishwasher safe and sold for Blackstone and Camp Chef griddles. It is not a grill.
What We Could Not Verify
These six things decide how a flat top actually cooks, and the listings settle none of them.
- Heat output on both gas grills. Blackstone mentions needing fewer BTUs without stating a figure, and Royal Gourmet names four burners with no output for any of them.
- Plate thickness on two of the four griddles. Blackstone and Chefman publish none, and thickness is what decides recovery when cold food lands on the steel.
- Cooking area on the two electric griddles. Both publish a length and a width and neither publishes a square inch figure, so neither can be set directly against 524.
- Weight on the Blackstone. Nothing is published, on a wheeled gas cart that has to be assembled and then moved.
- Whether the two zones on the combo run independently. Royal Gourmet publishes two areas and never says how many burners sit under each.
- What the second non stick acronym on the VEVOR listing is meant to say. The bullet names PFOA correctly and then misspells the other, so the claim cannot be read as written.
