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Mike in Roseville

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #15 on: February 17, 2020, 01:02:41 PM »

Quote from: LightningBoldtz on February 17, 2020, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: Mike in Roseville on February 17, 2020, 11:38:28 AM
Why would you buy a weber instead of a MAK, GMG, Yoder, Rec Tec, or even a Traeger? Those are all proven.


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Or Grilla Grills my personal favorite.  I own 2 of them.  ;)

Lol I knew I forgot a few. Lots of good options these days for the pellet game.


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pbe gummi bear

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #16 on: February 17, 2020, 01:17:16 PM »
I love my Traeger. All this talk about the SF inspired me to fire it up again today. I really hope Weber gets the SmokeFire sorted out. It seems like hardware and software will be required to do so.
« Last Edit: February 17, 2020, 01:19:27 PM by pbe gummi bear »
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LightningBoldtz

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #17 on: February 17, 2020, 01:29:13 PM »
Quote from: pbe gummi bear on February 17, 2020, 01:17:16 PM
I love my Traeger. All this talk about the SF inspired me to fire it up again today. I really hope Weber gets the SmokeFire sorted out. It seems like hardware and software will be required to do so.


That Traeger is awesome Lawrence
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sonofabutcher

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First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #18 on: February 17, 2020, 02:09:27 PM »
Quote from: LightningBoldtz on February 17, 2020, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: Mike in Roseville on February 17, 2020, 11:38:28 AM
Why would you buy a weber instead of a MAK, GMG, Yoder, Rec Tec, or even a Traeger? Those are all proven.


Sent from my iPhone using Weber Kettle Club

Or Grilla Grills my personal favorite.  I own 2 of them.  ;)
Grilla makes a fine pellet grill.  We used 2 Grilla’s for  a grilling class with Malcom Reed and Mark Williams couple weeks back. Smoked wings and grilled 2 ribeyes  with perfect grill marks you would swear came off charcoal. I prefer the Grilla over my traeger timberline 1300


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LightningBoldtz

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #19 on: February 18, 2020, 07:01:38 AM »
Quote from: sonofabutcher on February 17, 2020, 02:09:27 PM
Quote from: LightningBoldtz on February 17, 2020, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: Mike in Roseville on February 17, 2020, 11:38:28 AM
Why would you buy a weber instead of a MAK, GMG, Yoder, Rec Tec, or even a Traeger? Those are all proven.


Sent from my iPhone using Weber Kettle Club

Or Grilla Grills my personal favorite.  I own 2 of them.  ;)
Grilla makes a fine pellet grill.  We used 2 Grilla’s for  a grilling class with Malcom Reed and Mark Williams couple weeks back. Smoked wings and grilled 2 ribeyes  with perfect grill marks you would swear came off charcoal. I prefer the Grilla over my traeger timberline 1300


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I own the pre Alpha OG and the Chimp.  Love them.
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HoosierKettle

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #20 on: February 18, 2020, 08:46:58 AM »

Quote from: LightningBoldtz on February 18, 2020, 07:01:38 AM
Quote from: sonofabutcher on February 17, 2020, 02:09:27 PM
Quote from: LightningBoldtz on February 17, 2020, 12:26:07 PM
Quote from: Mike in Roseville on February 17, 2020, 11:38:28 AM
Why would you buy a weber instead of a MAK, GMG, Yoder, Rec Tec, or even a Traeger? Those are all proven.


Sent from my iPhone using Weber Kettle Club

Or Grilla Grills my personal favorite.  I own 2 of them.  ;)
Grilla makes a fine pellet grill.  We used 2 Grilla’s for  a grilling class with Malcom Reed and Mark Williams couple weeks back. Smoked wings and grilled 2 ribeyes  with perfect grill marks you would swear came off charcoal. I prefer the Grilla over my traeger timberline 1300


Sent from my iPhone using Weber Kettle Club

I own the pre Alpha OG and the Chimp.  Love them.

That round Grilla is a sexy pellet grill. Do you use the pro mode or pid mode more?


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PKSullivan

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #21 on: February 18, 2020, 08:51:19 AM »
Quote from: HoosierKettle on February 18, 2020, 08:46:58 AM
That round Grilla is a sexy pellet grill. Do you use the pro mode or pid mode more?


I haven't tried the pro mode yet; it's been cold here in Chicago since I got it so I've just been using the PID. Will definitely be trying out the "more swing, more smoke" mode when it warms up a bit this spring & summer.
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LightningBoldtz

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #22 on: February 18, 2020, 08:58:39 AM »
Quote from: PKSullivan on February 18, 2020, 08:51:19 AM
Quote from: HoosierKettle on February 18, 2020, 08:46:58 AM
That round Grilla is a sexy pellet grill. Do you use the pro mode or pid mode more?


I haven't tried the pro mode yet; it's been cold here in Chicago since I got it so I've just been using the PID. Will definitely be trying out the "more swing, more smoke" mode when it warms up a bit this spring & summer.

For the chimp that has the alpha I prefer pro mode, little more swing but produces really good results.
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HoosierKettle

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #23 on: February 18, 2020, 12:29:02 PM »
Just watched a couple videos on the smoke fire. I don’t know anything about pellet grills but the open design of this one looks like a nightmare for grease management and clean up. Definitely does not look easy or convenient.


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bamakettles

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #24 on: February 18, 2020, 01:14:13 PM »
Quote from: HoosierKettle on February 18, 2020, 12:29:02 PM
Just watched a couple videos on the smoke fire. I don’t know anything about pellet grills but the open design of this one looks like a nightmare for grease management and clean up. Definitely does not look easy or convenient.


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Agreed.  I saw a few today and it's not looking good for this model.  One guy had a video of a ton of grease mixed with pellet ash that went on forever.  I would not like to deal with that!
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jhagestad

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #25 on: February 19, 2020, 07:31:47 AM »
Disappointing news for sure. If you're late to the game, you better arrive with a superior product that does the brand proud. Everything I've read on this makes it seem like the issues are design-related, which is inexcusable, really.
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LightningBoldtz

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #26 on: February 19, 2020, 07:36:29 AM »
Quote from: jhagestad on February 19, 2020, 07:31:47 AM
Disappointing news for sure. If you're late to the game, you better arrive with a superior product that does the brand proud. Everything I've read on this makes it seem like the issues are design-related, which is inexcusable, really.

Your are spot on here, when I first saw it in the youtube pre-product release videos I thought the design was a "game changer" and thought that weber was going to take over the pellet community.  Having grease fires is not something to just brush off.  I hope they fix this, I love weber grills.  I also have my own personal favorite pellet manufacturer and in my back yard they can coexist nicely.
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Lemans

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #27 on: February 19, 2020, 09:17:00 AM »
I have a spider adapter and it works great. Doesn’t have any bells or whistles. The temp control goes in 50 degree steps.  But all and all for $200 it’s worth it!
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LightningBoldtz

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #28 on: February 19, 2020, 09:25:39 AM »
Quote from: Lemans on February 19, 2020, 09:17:00 AM
I have a spider adapter and it works great. Doesn’t have any bells or whistles. The temp control goes in 50 degree steps.  But all and all for $200 it’s worth it!

talk to me about the flavor profile?  Charcoal v pellet
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"You can have everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want"
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nitis

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Re: First used Smoke Fire?
« Reply #29 on: February 19, 2020, 10:50:33 AM »
I’m still going to get mine kind of irritated it’s not here yet to be perfectly honest

Observation by me is they designed this as a grill first even when they did their demos they were grilling not smoking

The flare ups and fires are nothing I haven’t seen in my genesis

Also even though they say the design shouldn’t need drip trays or pans. I don’t want to clean that up anyway so I’m going to use something to catch those drippings anyway

Now maybe it’ll work better for me because I have other grills to fill the needs I need but maybe this goes to show that a one size fits all grill is more of a unicorn than we thought


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