Best Value: The trusty, versatile, highly portable PK Grill and Smoker is a classic among classics. First debuted in the early 1950s, the brand name got its reboot in 1998, when an attorney-turned-grill-enthusiast from Little Rock, Arkansas, uncovered a vintage PK Grill at a yard sale, then bought the rights to the name and went on to produce nearly identical, thick-cast charcoal grills in the original castings. Each one, made by hand in the USA, is cast in aluminum, which not only efficiently conducts heat, but also naturally resists rust.