A cooking device may include a refractory oven and a housing. The refractory oven may define a cooking chamber that may be configured to receive thermal energy from an external heat source. The refractory oven may further define an opening configured to allow foodstuffs to be introduced into the cooking chamber. The refractory oven may be further configured to substantially surround the foodstuffs while the foodstuffs are positioned inside the cooking chamber. The housing may at least partially surround the refractory oven. The housing and the refractory oven may define a heated volume between an external surface of the refractory oven and an internal surface of the housing. The heated volume may be configured to receive thermal energy from the external heat source and to reduce transfer of thermal energy from the cooking chamber through refractory oven.

A vertical grilling assembly for uniform grilling of food with reduced flareups includes a housing, which defines an interior space. A retaining unit, which is engaged to a food item is insertable through an opening, which is positioned in a front of the housing, so that the food item is positioned in the interior space substantially equally distant from opposed sides of the housing. A first door is hingedly engaged to the housing and is positioned to selectively close the opening. A pair of heaters is engaged singly to the opposed sides of the housing and positioned in the interior space. The heaters selectively heat the interior space to grill the food item. A controller is engaged to the housing and is operationally engaged to the pair of heaters. The controller is positioned to control heat output from the pair of heaters.

Gas grills including downwardly facing infrared (IR) burner assemblies are disclosed. An example gas grill includes a cookbox, a shroud, an IR burner, and a cooking grate. The shroud includes opposing sidewalls and a housing. The opposing sidewalls extend upwardly from the cookbox and include a first pair of opposing grate supports and a second pair of opposing grate supports located below the first pair of opposing grate supports. The housing extends between the opposing sidewalls and defines an internal compartment. The IR burner is coupled to the housing such that a portion of the IR burner is located within the internal compartment. The IR burner includes a plurality of downwardly facing ceramic tiles configured in an end-to-end arrangement. The cooking grate is located below the IR burner and supported by either the first or the second pair of opposing grate supports.