The Current Model G2 is a dual-zone electric grill that runs 200 to 700 degrees on a standard 120-volt circuit, and it is the second electric grill this summer to talk me out of a position I had held for years without ever testing it. Electric grilling, in my head, was the low-powered countertop ceramic bowl my mom ran in the 90s that could barely warm a hot dog, never mind lay char marks on a zucchini. The G2 lists at $1,199 and sears like something that burns fuel.
The Current Model G2 Electric Grill lists at $1,199 direct from Current Backyard and is also available on Amazon.com. Current Backyard is a W.C. Bradley Co. brand, launched by the parent company that owns Char-Broil, and the G2 is the 2026 top of its lineup.
A gas grill needs a tank, clearance and somewhere to vent. This one needs an outlet with its own breaker.
- 700 degrees, published - Current prints the sear number instead of leaving you to find it, and the same dial drops to 200 for the slow end of a cook.
- Two zones on separate controls - 330 square inches of primary grate plus a 92-inch secondary rack, so the sear side and the hold side stop fighting over one setting.
- QuickRelease heating elements - the elements lift out of the tray, which is the part of electric grilling nobody thinks about until the first cleanup.
- A storage drawer where the tank used to live - no propane means the cabinet underneath belongs to you, and Current built a drawer into it.
- Flex trays for smoke or steam - wood chips and pellets for smoke, water for vapor, riding on the cooking surface rather than under it.
I got here the long way. This year my grilling went from mostly gas with some pellet smoking to both ends of the spectrum at once, live fire on a Weber kettle and electric on a countertop. The Kenyon City Grill is the one that broke the position, an appliance I doubted in print and then had to write the correction on. The G2 is that same argument with a lid, a cart and a second zone.
Current Designed The Packaging and Product Look The Way Apple Would Have
The assembly is the first thing worth telling you about, which is not a sentence I have written about a grill before.
Current puts a ratcheting screwdriver in the box. Not a folded hex key, not a stamped wrench, a real ratcheting driver you would keep in the drawer afterward. The warning and instruction labels are laminated magnets instead of adhesive stickers, so nothing leaves gummy residue on a $1,199 appliance. Assembly runs through BILT, the guided app that animates each step, with a printed quick start for anyone who does not want a phone involved.
None of that changes how the grill cooks, but all of it tells you who designed it. This is not a legacy manufacturer deciding it needs something for younger buyers and bolting a Wi-Fi chip onto last year's cart. Current Backyard is a clean-sheet brand from W.C. Bradley Co., the company that owns Char-Broil, and it reads like a team that got to start from nothing instead of retrofitting a 50-year-old product line.
The control display and the Current Backyard app hold that standard through. Two meat probes ship in the box and the grill takes four, a Flex Tray kit for smoking and steaming comes with it, and so does a CoolSurface brush cut for the grates. There is very little in that box you will need to replace with a better version.
Then there are the details nobody had to include. The lid handle sits in a brushed brass collar with the brand mark stamped into it, on a grill where every other fastener is doing a job. Somebody spent a meeting on that.
Two Zones, 700 Degrees, And A Cooking Cavity That Stays Closed
Seven hundred degrees is the number that separates the G2 from the electric grills I had written off, and a promised number is worth more than a possible one.
The Kenyon City Grill publishes 600. In practice, I suspect it climbs higher than that, but Kenyon does not promise it, and a number a manufacturer will not commit to is a number you cannot plan a cook around. Current commits to 700 on the primary grate and puts the bottom of the range at 200, which covers a low-and-slow chicken thigh and a ribeye sear on one machine.
The second zone is what I did not expect to care about. Two grates on their own controls means you can hold a first round of burgers while the next round sears, or run vegetables at 350 next to steaks at 650. On a single-zone electric grill that is a sequencing problem you solve by making people wait. Feed six guys on a Saturday and the difference stops being theoretical.
The cook chamber is the other half of the heat story, and it is close to sealed. A gas grill is full of holes by necessity, because burners need air and combustion gases need an exit. The G2 has no combustion to vent, so Current could design a box that closes. I have not taken it through a cold windy October yet, but the reasoning is not complicated. A closed box loses less heat to moving air than a vented one does, and holding temperature on a windy day is the thing every open-bottomed gas grill is worst at.
No Propane Tank Means The Cabinet Underneath Is Yours
Take the tank out of a grill and you get back the entire cabinet it was living in. Current did two things with that space, and both are more useful than the spec sheet makes them sound.
The first is a built-in storage drawer, which is where the tools, the probes and the Flex Trays end up living instead of migrating into the garage between cooks. The second is that the bottom of the cart stays open. Nothing is plumbed through it, nothing has to be swapped out at 8pm on a Sunday, and the shelf is just a shelf.
The Flex Trays are what that space is carrying. The tray rides on the cooking surface where the heat is rather than sitting buried under the grates, which is why Current can put water in it and get vapor out. Once there is a tray for liquid on a grill, the next question answers itself: beer or wine in place of water works by the identical mechanism and brings more with it.
Guys in a condo where management banned propane are the obvious buyers here, and they are not the whole market. The G2 fits a screened porch, a boat slip, a rooftop, an outdoor kitchen where running a gas line means opening a wall, and anywhere a 20-pound steel cylinder is the thing standing between you and cooking outside.
The Wheels Are The One Part That Reads Like A $400 Grill
A buddy came by while I was putting the G2 together, and we did what guys do around a half-assembled grill: we stood there and talked about grills. He looked at the wheels and said nobody ever does good wheels on a grill. He is right, and Current did not break the streak.
The wheels are functional. They roll, they hold the weight of the grill, they do the job ... but not much more. They are also plasticky in a way nothing else on this grill is, and mine have already dented and chipped from nothing more dramatic than going in and out of the garage. On a $400 box-store grill I would not mention it. On a $1,199 machine where somebody thought hard enough about the experience to include a ratcheting screwdriver and magnetic labels, the wheels are the one component that did not get that level of attention to detail.
Nothing about the wheels affects the quality of what you're cooking, but at 108 pounds and 49 inches wide, this grill gets rolled over bricks and concrete lips going in and out of the garage. Even tho most of us will never look down at the wheels, it should still be the same quality as the rest of the unit.
This Is A Smart Grill ... That Can't Start Itself
I have built my house around Google, so my instinct with any connected appliance is to ask what it does when I talk to it. I would love to sit here writing and then a half an hour before I plan to cook, and say "hey Google, start the G2 and take it to 500." Current does not do that, and there is no Alexa or Google integration to hook into.
There's also no reason why this shouldn't be doable - in fact, my GE Profile Oven (electric) starts on its own and is awesome because I can warm it up so it's ready without making a trip to the kitchen (though it does require some extra configuration).
Current states that safety regulations prevent the app from turning the grill on remotely. Nobody is allowed to ship you a product that can energize a heating element on its own dedicated breaker while you are three rooms away and cannot see what is sitting on the grate. Once you have walked out and turned it on yourself, the app takes over completely: set temperatures, switch zones, watch the probes, shut it down, all of it from a phone or a smart watch.
So the voice assistant I want is half impossible by rule and half a missing API. Current cannot give me the ignition. They could absolutely give me the rest, and an open API would let the probe temperature trigger something in my house rather than a notification I have to look at. I am a nerd about this and I know it, and someone is going to open that up before long.