How to Choose a Pellet Grill Smoker | Buying Guide | BBQGuys

Learn how to buy pellet grills with help from Chef Tony, who runs down the 4 things you need to know. First up is a pellet smoker’s configuration — that is, whether it’s built in or freestanding — and the certain lifestyle benefits of each type. He also makes an important distinction between pellet grills and vertical pellet smokers, which have key differences that directly affect what you can to cook and how well you’re able to cook it. Chef Tony then dives into what separates specific types of temperature controllers and how each one works beneath the hood of your wood pellet grill. Finally, Chef offers a quick glance at the set of classifications we’ve created to sort pellet cookers by their quality, performance, and features. Pellet grills have experienced a recent boom in popularity that comes with tons of innovations, so it’s important you get all the details before making your decision.

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Featuring: Tony Matassa
Filmed/Produced by: Tony Matassa & Blaine Boudreaux

[flyincow]

Any chance you guys would do a video comparing the CampChef Woodwind and the Traegers (maybe the ironwood)? From all my research these seem to be two of the top ones but the CampChef is so new I don't know what to think of it.

[bjbrunetti]

I picked mine based by price LG sl700 $299. Just need a low and slow smoker. It has a PID control but no WiFi

[matt]

How do you think about Z Grills? After doing research on a number of pellet grills and not being able to find the one I wanted, I stumbled across Z Grills. After diving deeper in and researching it, I settled on the Z 700E. The assembly was easy, even for someone who is challenged when it comes to assembling anything.

[TheAlpha]

Have you seen the 3 new Pitts and Spitts pellet smokers

[joshmclaughlin]

What do you guys think about Yoder Smokers?