Char-Broil Recalls 10,605 Bistro Pro Electric Grills Over a Loose Ground Wire

Char-Broil is recalling about 10,605 Bistro Pro electric grills sold at Ace Hardware, Lowe's, Walmart, Wayfair, QVC and on Amazon. The Consumer Product Safety Commission says the grounding wire for the heating element can disconnect and lose fault protection, leaving an electric shock hazard. No incidents or injuries have been reported. Only three months of production are affected, so the date code on the grill decides whether yours is one of them.

The recall was announced on September 17, 2026 (CPSC recall number 26-773). Another 342 of the grills were sold in Canada.

Which grills are covered

The recall covers nine model numbers of the Charbroil Bistro Pro range, in Black, Red, Blackout and Emerald. It is a list, not a range — the numbers in between are not part of it:

• Electric Grill & Griddle + Charcoal Mode — 25302145 (Black), 25302146 (Red)
• Electric Grill + Charcoal Mode — 25302147 (Blackout), 25302148 (Black)
• Tabletop Electric Grill — 25302149 (Black), 25302150 (Red)
• Electric Grill & Griddle + Charcoal Mode, with Cover — 25302151 (Black), 25302159 (Red), 25302163 (Emerald)

The model number on its own does not settle it. Only grills with date codes 2510, 2511 or 2512 — October, November and December 2025, written YYMM — are recalled. The label carrying the model number, the serial number and that four-digit date code is on the bottom shelf of a full-size grill and on the side bar of a tabletop model. That is the one thing to go and look at before doing anything else.

They sold at Ace Hardware, Lowe's, Walmart, Wayfair, QVC and other hardware stores, and online at Amazon.com and Charbroil.com, from October 2025 through June 2026, for between $150 and $250. They were made in China for Char-Broil LLC of Columbus, Georgia.

What to do

1. Stop using it. CPSC's instruction is to stop using the grill immediately, not to finish the season with it.
2. Register for the free repair kit at charbroil.com/BistroProFix. The kit contains repair instructions, a screwdriver, a wrench, screws and a label to fix to the grill once the work is done. Char-Broil's questions line is 866-671-7988, 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. MT, Monday to Saturday, and the notice also sits at charbroil.com/recalls.
3. Send the photo. Char-Broil is offering a $25 digital gift card, valid at participating retailers, to anyone who sends photo evidence of the completed repair. That is unusual, and it is worth the five minutes.

Char-Broil's notice page says: "At Char-Broil, the quality of our products and the safety of our consumers are top priorities. We apologize for this inconvenience, and we thank you for your understanding." It is the same wording the company carries on the other recall notices listed there, not a statement written for this one.

Why we are running this

This is a remedy you perform yourself with tools the company mails you, on a grill that cost $150 to $250. That combination is exactly the setup where a competent owner decides to skip the paperwork and just fix the wire — or, worse, buys a replacement part and does the job properly at their own expense.

Do not. Our repair-or-replace guide is built on comparing what a fix costs against what the appliance is worth, and on a $150 tabletop grill almost any paid repair fails that test on the spot. Here there is nothing to compare: the kit is free, and completing it pays you $25. Buying a part turns a free remedy into a repair you funded.

We have an interest in saying so plainly. Two of the brands we rank at /compare, RepairClinic and PartSelect, are parts retailers, and we earn a commission when readers buy through them. There is no version of this story where that is the right move, and we would rather say it than take the click.

The same logic ran through the Panasonic toaster oven recall last month — a power-cord defect that looked like an easy self-repair and came with a full refund instead. Both are manufacturing faults with a remedy attached, and in both cases the DIY instinct costs the owner money they do not need to spend.

One piece of context that cuts the other way, in Char-Broil's favor. In February 2024 the company recalled about 211,700 digital electric smokers after 79 reports of minor electric shocks, one of which raised a blister on a finger; the fix there was a GFCI plug and a protective enclosure. This recall has zero reported incidents and is fenced to three months of date codes. That is what a fault caught at the factory rather than in the field looks like — which only helps if the notice reaches the roughly ten thousand people who own one, and an outdoor grill bought at a hardware store in spring is not a product many of them registered.