That's a good take bhawk. The only think I would add is to soak it in Dale's before throwing the wave.
That is simply not true. Meat on my BGE comes out way more succulent and juicy than on my Traeger. For overnight cooks, once the temp is dialed in it pretty much stays there. With that being said, it is relatively expensive. If I had to rank order secondary cooking apparatuses in the order I would hate to see them go, it would be:
In my experience what you posted isn’t true. Smoke is smoke. Professional pit masters have been known to use an electric smoker. If you’re a bbq judge scoring on exact criteria maybe you can tell the difference. Most people cannot. I’d argue that a blind taste test you couldn’t tell the difference.
The BGE has a gasket sealing in air. That is the whole point of a kamado-style ceramic cooker. The meat is absolutely moister in such a cooker, and flare ups are almost nonexistent even with direct heat,versus something without the air tightness. And I’m not hating on electric smokers, like I said I have a pellet grill which is basically the same. But there IS a difference in the food. Whether you prefer one over the other, or whether you are willing to spend X versus Y, is an individual choice.
That reminds me, I need to buy a binchotan grill and a pizza oven.
Calling BS. I can easily tell the difference between wood, electric pellets, and electric chips.
To each his own. Perhaps this is a terminology thing. My electric smoker used an electric element to burn wood. What’s the difference between just burning the wood? Or using propane to burn the wood.
The Masterbuilt Gravity smokers are badass. You get good control over the amount of smoke you want, it burns almost as clean as a stick burner and it’s almost as easy as a pellet smoker. Only downside is the build quality isn’t great (not terrible either) and there is a flare up risk if grease accumulates in the manifold.
I also have a Pit barrel cooker. Does an excellent job for around $350. It is pretty much start and leave it.
I have a version of the vertical pellet smoker that you have. I bought mine this year and it’s a bit larger with a few more bells and whistles but I’m sure the work almost the same. It’s amazing and I’m super happy I bought it. I had an electric smoker before and this pellet smoker is much better. I had to add wood chips or pellets to my electric smoker. This pellet smoker uses the wood to heat things and takes all the work out of it. I control it all from my phone and it makes life so easy.
