Pellet Smoker/Grill Recommendations

[ShootnBlanks]

Question for the pellet guys- how long generally do they take to reach cooking temps? I understand winter gonna be longer but summer time temps when a guy wants to just grill some burgers. Comparable to gas?

 

[AR-15]

Buying a Weber Smokey Mountain, not all that electric bull crap

 

[raider]

i love my traeger for smoking, but not for grilling high temp... i buy the cheapest gas grill walmart sells every couple years, and use that for burgers and steaks...

when the traeger dies, i'll likely get a yoder or something i can grill on too...

fwiw, i've never had any of mossys pics off his yoder bring suck to mind...

 

[VDAWG]

I can now say I have tried both the green egg and the traeger. No comparison, I think the green egg is the only way to go. The heat retention is incredible. On my first cook, I got it dialed into 250 degrees with zero trouble and it held that temp solid. Get an electric coal starter and you’ll have hot coals in about 3 mins. I had the egg up to temp faster than it would have taken my gas Weber. After the 2 hour smoke, it hardly even used any of the coal up. The food was much, much better as well. My mind is blown. IMO, throw the pellet pooper in the garbage, get an egg, never look back. My $.02