Smoker suggestions?

[Irving]

Looking forward to reading about it.

[Rooskibar03]

Buy a RecTeq and thank me later (and ColoRider) who sold me on them. Best pellet grill there is.

[BPTactical]

https://www.grillagrills.com/product...RoCTPQQAvD_BwE

[buffalobo]

https://www.grillagrills.com/product...RoCTPQQAvD_BwE

Have you had good experience with yours?

[BPTactical]

Have you had good experience with yours?

Been very happy with it. I like the “set it and forget it” aspect.
Small footprint as well. Holds temperature well on cooler days, well built.

[buffalobo]

Been very happy with it. I like the ?set it and forget it? aspect.
Small footprint as well. Holds temperature well on cooler days, well built.

, thanks.

[Jer]

As someone who just (happily) sold his Recteq RT-590, I can NOT recommend them or their products any longer. Their app/notifications/server has been b0rk since Super Bowl weekend 2021. That was when I first noticed my notifications weren't working by ruining the smoke I was doing for our friends/family. It was a mystery then but others began reporting the same thing indicating the issue was a sever capacity issue. Things were back to normal after that weekend until the next holiday weekend. This pattern continued for about six months or so where your set temperature alarms simply wouldn't notify you of important targets being hit. It then spread to 24/7/365 and not just on the busy weekends. The entire time Recteq acknowledged the issue and promised it would be fixed. It's clearly a server capacity issue caused by them not ramping up their server support solution to match their sales. At some point it became a bottom line expense that they could keep low rather than a necessary expense to keep clients happy by delivering on the promise they made on the front end. Supporting is this theory is that it came shortly before the buyout likely as an accounting move to make their profits look better on a P&L to sweeten their buyout offer.

Over a year I put up with that BS until I finally gave up and replaced it with a Grilla Grills Silverbac Alpha+ and it's an upgrade at a lower price point IMO. It's also a better solution for this climate where the winters are colder due to the double-walled barrel. Lots of other bonuses over the RT-590 and the only two negatives IMO are the slightly smaller hopper and the single meat probe instead of two. The pellet hopper is still much larger than that of my Daniel Boone by GMG which was still plenty for overnight smokes. The meat probe situation is a non-issue since I'd rather have a single one that works reliability that I can trust over 2 that can't be trusted to work reliably.

Summary: if you want your smart smoker to actually work as advertised, stay far away from anything Recteq makes as it's a systematic issue they're aware of and either 1) don't care enough about customer service to address it properly by loosening the purse strings or 2) are too inept to correct the issue after 18 months. Neither of those is a place to hang a larger investment on something like a smoker IMO. If you want to overpay for features that you won't use and like that they're overbuilt physically and like the empty reviews talking about sending a $2 temp probe that shouldn't have failed in the first place as some sort of proof of how good their customer service is.... Recteq may be your brand!

[Ah Pook]

Got the GMG smoker up and running after the move. Now I'm looking for a grill.

Almost pulled the trigger on a large Big Green Egg but moving and price nixed that. Cooked on one a few times and like it.

Looking at an Char-Griller Acorn Kamado. Looks very similar to the other kamado/tandoori style but made of metal. I like the cast iron grate and ash clean out looks easier then the BGE.

Primarily looking at cooking burgers, brauts, steak, veggies, pizza...

Any thoughts?

[Gman]

Weber Master-Touch?

[eddiememphis]

My brother-in-law bought a red egg, whatever brand that is. He is very happy with it, uses it all the time.

For just a basic grill it is tough to beat the traditional Weber kettle.

Millions of pages of information about how to use them plus a huge aftermarket with accessories for any type of cooking you want to do.

I used to have two of them but I gave one to my nephew as his first real grill.