The grill portion doesn’t get very hot and doesn’t sear well. The griddle portion gets hot and does a good job but it came out of the package warped. Fair warning: The entire unit weighs around 150 lbs when assembled, which makes it cumbersome to load and unload without two people. It’s a pretty good unit, but if I do it again, we’ll just get the small griddle and use it for what it does well.