expiredphoinix | Staff posted May 12, 2025 07:45 PM
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expiredphoinix | Staff posted May 12, 2025 07:45 PM
Traeger Grills Pro 34 Electric Wood Pellet Grill and Smoker (Bronze)
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I love the extra space. I was NOT going through pellets super fast at all. I love how this is simpler smoker. No PID. No WIFI . I found those things dont work right. So i went to a simpler smoker and will never go back.
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Eventually after the low temperatures that never go high enough for long , the long wait times and pellet hassle, you reach Jedi master level and join the force known as Charcoal.
Once you are a Jedi CharCoal master you never return to the dark side, ever.
To each their own but I haven't had a single one of those frustrations in my 4 years with a no frills PB 500 fb. I do overnight cooks at 200-225 several times a month and it's the easiest cooks ever.. Has a sear zone for grilling- not as good as charcoal / my green egg but so damned easy.. I enjoy the ritual of charcoal / starting the fire and the prep but man the time saved on all that is so awesome.
Eventually after the low temperatures that never go high enough for long , the long wait times and pellet hassle, you reach Jedi master level and join the force known as Charcoal.
Once you are a Jedi CharCoal master you never return to the dark side, ever.
I do still have my kettle and a Smokey Joe, but for smoking pellet is king unless you're looking to do comps.
I do still have my kettle and a Smokey Joe, but for smoking pellet is king unless you're looking to do comps.
I'm currently running with a WSM. The initial process of getting the charcoal lit is obviously more involved than pouring in pellets and pressing a button, but once lit I use a fan connected to WiFi and the temp stays rock solid at whatever I set it to. The days of babysitting are long gone since the advent of the remote controlled fan. And you can't honestly compare the flavor of charcoal and wood to pellets.
Same, haven't used my pellet grill after getting a gravity smoker.
Can I ask what gravity smoker you've had luck with?
This Treager is very bare bones and it uses a lot of pellets...even at very low temps. It's like Traeger put out the first auger-fed system and then quit trying. Others have improved on the auger-feeding plus improved the housings/shells and the user experience at less cost while Traeger seemingly rests on it's name and expects a premium.
Admittedly, I jumped on this deal last year because of the brand name and have wished I didn't ever since my first cook on it. It cooks fine, no better or worse than other pellet grills I've been around, but this will be the only Traeger I'll ever buy.
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Those fan controls existed 20yrs ago, nothing new they're just cheaper now.
The gripes:
1. It doesn't get hot enough for anything aside from low and slow. If I crank it above 300 it never gets higher.
2. The grate is all one piece, so cleaning it is a pain in the butt.
3. There is no built-in way to remove pellets from the hopper if you're wanting to change pellets between cooks (like going from post oak for one cook, then swapping to cherry for another)
4. I augment all my smokes with a smoke tube. In my experience most (if not all) pellet smokers just burn a little too clean and have a harder time getting that offset smoke flavor, which I know isn't possible, but the smoke tube helps.
5. A few times, the pellets in the hopper have lined up just perfectly and dammed the flow of pellets into the auger. Not sure if this happens in other pellet smokers that often, but it has in mine.
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