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Wood Pellet Smoker Grill with Waterproof Cover and Meat Probe
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Wood Pellet Smoker Grill with Waterproof Cover and Meat Probe

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$455.99
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Eight hundred and fifty square inches sounds like a number until it is translated: six chickens, seven rib racks, forty burgers or six pork butts at once. That is a grill sized for the day you cook for thirty people, which happens perhaps four times a year, and it occupies that footprint on the other three hundred and sixty days. The compensation is the 180 degrees F floor of the PID range, low enough for a genuine overnight smoke using a quarter of the grate.

Cook area
850 sq in
Range
180 to 500 degrees F
Control
PID controller plus app
Included
Waterproof cover, meat probe

How it lives in the room

Fill the hopper before a brisket

A PID controller holding 225 degrees F for twelve hours burns pellets steadily and quietly, and the one failure mode of any pellet grill is running dry at hour nine. Check the hopper level before the cook rather than during it, and keep the bag somewhere genuinely dry: damp pellets swell, bridge in the auger and stall the fire, which shows on the controller as a temperature drop with no obvious cause.

Use the app for the overnight

Setting grill and probe temperatures from a phone sounds like a convenience feature and matters most once, at three in the morning. Program the target internal temperature and the automatic shutoff before going to bed and the cook finishes itself. The one thing worth testing on an ordinary afternoon is whether the connection reaches from the patio to the bedroom, because that is the distance that counts.

Then sear at the top of the range

Five hundred degrees F is the ceiling, which is hot enough to finish a steak and not hot enough to behave like a charcoal grill. Give the grates fifteen minutes at the top setting before anything goes on, work in small batches, and accept that the sear arrives with wood smoke in it. For eight cooking modes in one appliance that is the honest trade.

Before you order

Eight hundred and fifty square inches needs an outlet nearby and somewhere to live. The waterproof cover is supplied, but a pellet grill cannot be stored indoors after a cook: the firepot holds ash and the hopper holds pellets, and both need ventilation.