Blackstone Griddle vs. Sam’s Club Members Mark Griddle - YouTube

hi y'all are you looking to buy an outdoor  griddle well today i'm going to compare the  

sam's club members mark griddle to the blackstone  griddle some of the features that both the members  

more griddle and the blackstone grill come  with we're comparing a four burner 36 inch  

so each of the units have a btu rating  of 60 000 btus that means they're both  

comparison exactly the same no difference  differences there hi y'all don here what's  

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another area that both the blackstone and the  members mark griddle have in common is both of  

them have over 700 square inches of cooking space  one of the major difference between the members  

mark and the the blackstone griddle is that the  blackstone grille has got a push button starter  

runs off batteries the members mark this  burner right here has a click you can  

hear the click going in that's the starter  fret all all the other burners light off it  

the blackstone you have the starter one burner  lights up and all the other burners light off it  

also one of the big questions i've had a lot  of especially dealing with the members mark  

is people are concerned about warping of the  surface it doesn't matter what brand you have  

while warping happens if it's really cold outside  and we try to heat it up too fast in other words  

we are putting the burners on high to preheat  we always want to preheat on medium low  

till we get up to that temperature but preheating  too fast especially if the cooktop is cold you  

want to gradually warm it so it doesn't matter  what brand you have you can warp them to me  

another great advantage of the members mark is the  drip pan is right here the hole is right here in  

the front the drip pan is right here in the front  where i can check it real easily from where i do  

it on the black stone you have a little slot back  here in the back and the drip pan is on the back  

side of that so to actually check and see how it  is i've got to walk completely around my griddle  

to the other side to see what's going on what  happens most the time is that we don't check it  

as much as we ought to and it overflows the dogs  really love it but as far as a mess and having  

to clean up it's it is really terrible as far as  the member's mark it comes with two things these  

are things that the blackstone does not come with  one that comes with its scraper and two it comes  

with this cloth cover really good to keep dust and  dirt and everything out another comparison between  

the two both of them have shelves on both sides  and both have a shelf up underneath for storage  

as far as price the members mark of course  you have to have a sam's club membership  

to get one but it runs 229 dollars compared to  the blackstone it's going to start about 300.  

somewhere between three and 350. now as you notice  here i have a blackstone hardcover on top of it  

this blackstone hardcover runs seventy dollars  through amazon blackstone you can get this to come  

with your griddle that range is about 350  to 450 so it's around 50 dollars more so  

to get it with the griddle if you buy from  blackstone this one feature here which is  

the levelers right here for my griddle this is  only on the the members mark does not come on  

the blackstone the black stone if you want to  level it you're going to have to put washers in  

between here all we have to do on this is take  and lift it up a little bit and we can turn

and it will actually move it around a half  an inch to three quarters of an inch so  

we can make sure that we're leveled to where  all the grease flows towards in this case the  

front of the griddle where our grease drip pan is  located now we have these levelers on both sides

that way we can make sure that it doesn't puddle  from one side to the other and that everything  

flows towards the front one thing that neither  griddle comes with is these windshields these  

are really good you put them on the front put  them on the sides what this does is it prevents  

wind from blowing as well as it prevents  a lot of heat coming from up underneath  

your sides here and getting up on your  table one of the knocks of all griddles  

is they have these nice shelves on each side but  traditionally without these windshields on there  

they're too hot to put anything so if i have my  squeeze bottles with oil or anything they'll melt  

so adding these wind guards is a definite  must now the best tip i can give is to watch  

my video on how to season the griddle season  in the griddle especially your first season  

is critical to making sure that things don't stick  while you're cooking so please watch that video