Best Pellet Grills Of 2022

Not like the traditional circular smokers that can roll around, this hexagon shape stays in place to provide balanced smoking. 【2 ACCESS DOOR】 – The advantage of 2 access door is you can open the door according you request, more flexible than the one access door. When you need to check the status of foods, you just need to open the upper door.

clermont pellet grill & smoker cover

It comes with a meat probe, a removable top grate, a grease drip pan, and a Wi-Fi digital controller. At the very least, all of the pellet grills named in this article would give you 20 hours of slow cooking (225°F) at a rate of 1 pound of pellets per hour. When it came to performance, the Pit Boss tended to range in temperature between 20°F to 25°F from the set temp.

However, with cooking areas on pellet grills/smokers, you always have to take the figures in context. The cover is UV protected, wind and water-resistant and the dual-sided vents dissipate excess heat and prevents condensation. When it’s time to grill, the dual-sided grip handles allow for easy removal of the cover.

Because it’s behind the grill, you have to pull it out to get to them. And since I installed the locking wheels on the back of the cart, it’s hard to unlock them, so you can pull the grill out. You can also make adjustments by sliding the searing rod back to the left to close the vents. For my first cook on the Clermont, I smoked a spatchchock chicken with a pan of green beans and a pan of carrots. As you can see from the photo, I still had room to add more food, if I wanted to.

This is sufficient to cook different types of food at the same time such as racks of ribs, chicken, and burgers all within the same cooking area. For the price, we were impressed with this pellet grill. It didn’t feature the precise temperature control we found with more expensive grills, but the knob on the digital control panel sets cuisinart griddler elite the temperature in 20°F increments. It does have a Bluetooth and WiFi-enabled app to view the grill and two built-in probe temperatures, but it’s not a very robust app. At higher temperatures, the SmokeFire was unique because of its open grill design. Most pellet grills contain a deflector plate that runs under the grill racks.