Oct 6, 2026Buying Guides
Flat-Top Griddle Accessories: Building a Smash Burger Program
Smash burgers made the flat-top griddle a second-season category. A buying guide to presses, scraper-choppers, wide spatulas and fish slices for importers and retailers.
The smash burger has traveled from diner counters to home patios and kitchens, and it pulled an entire tool category along with it. The defining surface is not the grill grate but the flat top, and the tools that make the technique work — press, scraper-chopper, wide spatulas — form one of the most compact programs a buyer can stock. For importers, retail chains and e-commerce sellers, the flat-top griddle is also that rare outdoor-cooking line which keeps selling after summer ends. Here is how we help buyers build the program.
Why the Griddle Is a Second-Season Category
The smash burger technique needs onlya flat, hot surface and a firm press, so it works equally well on outdoor griddle tops, camping stoves and kitchen ranges.
That gives griddle tools an indoor life as well as an outdoor one: burgers, breakfasts, grilled cheese and cheesesteaks keep the category moving through autumn and winter.
For retailers, the flat-top shelf is effectively asecond season for the BBQ customer— the same buyer, restocked after skewers and grill brushes slow down.
The commercial logic is simple. The SKU count is small, unit prices are low, and the story — restaurant-style burgers cooked at home — is easy to communicate on a listing page or a shelf header. Few accessory lines offer that ratio of story to shelf space, and fewer still carry demand into the colder quarter.
Start with the Press: Two Materials, Two Tiers
Every smash burger program begins with the press, and two materials cover the market:
Stainless steel smash burger press (EML-BP-S-001)— the defining tool of the technique. A flat stainless face transfers pressure evenly for the thin, craggy-edged patty the style is named for, wipes clean in seconds and matches the rest of a stainless program.
Cast iron press (EML-GP-CI-001)— cast iron holds heat and adds contact weight, so the same tool stretches into bacon, panini and pressed sandwiches. On the shelf it reads as the premium or crossover SKU.
Stocking both creates a material story and a price ladder instead of a duplicated shelf, letting one program speak to the value buyer and the enthusiast at the same time.
The Scraper-Chopper: The Tool That Defines the Technique
Authentic smash burger cooking involves chopping onions directly on the flat top and lifting the patty together with its crust — two motions a conventional turner handles badly.
Thegriddle scraper and chopper (EML-GC-S-001)handles both in one tool: chopping and dividing on the surface, then lifting patties without tearing the crust.
Between batches, the same edge scrapes the flat top clean, so it doubles as the surface's everyday maintenance tool.
Low unit cost and high usage frequency make it the program's most natural add-on and impulse purchase.
If a buyer wants to test the category with only two SKUs, the press and the scraper-chopper are the pair — the two tools the technique cannot work without.
Spatulas: Wide Blade vs. Fish Slice
Two spatula types cover flat-top service, and they speak to slightly different cooks:
Wide griddle spatula (EML-GS-S-002)— a broad blade lifts a full smashed patty in one motion and is stiff enough to tidy the surface as it goes. This is the core burger tool.
Fish spatula (EML-FS-S-001)— thin, flexible and slotted, made for delicate turns: fish fillets, eggs and thin cuts that a stiff blade would tear. It widens the program beyond burgers into everyday griddle cooking.
On a product page the pair works well as a "which spatula do you need" comparison — the burger cook converts on the wide blade, while the fish spatula recruits the breakfast-and-seafood shopper into the same category.
Merchandising the Line as One Program
Because all five tools serve one cooking style, they merchandise best as a single flat-top destination rather than scattered across aisles:
One header, one story: "smash burgers at home" covers the press, scraper-chopper and both spatulas, with the cast iron press positioned as the upsell.
Buyers who prefer a ready-made assortment can add a factory-assembled griddle accessory kit (EML-GAK-S-001) alongside the individual tools.
Food-contact certification (FDA/LFGB) is available on applicable models, and OEM options — laser-engraved logos, custom sizes and retail-ready packaging — apply across the line.
Positioned this way, a compact five-tool line fills a planogram slot that would otherwise sit empty between grill season and the holiday push, and it gives e-commerce sellers a tight, cross-linked category page rather than five orphan listings.
Talk to Evermark Living
Evermark Living, a Foshan-based supplier of kitchen and outdoor-cooking tools, produces the complete flat-top program in-house: theEML-BP-S-001 stainless smash burger press, EML-GP-CI-001 cast iron press, EML-GC-S-001 scraper-chopper, plus the wide griddle spatula and fish spatula — with FDA/LFGB certification available on applicable models and low minimums for first orders.Contact us via our contact page or at info@evermark-living.com to request samples or the griddle accessories catalog, and tell us your market and channel — we will help you size the program before the indoor season begins.
