On Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 4:13:57 PM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
2:19 PMJohn H
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Once the temp gets to a certain point, the controller shuts off the grill. Then there is nothing to
do but start over.

.....


Sounds to me like they have a lot to work on, but they keep selling with what they have so I guess not....

Traeger invented them, but they aren't necessarily the best. There are lots of manufacturers and some really nice, rock solid pellet grills available now. Sounds like they may be riding along on name recognition these days.

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:19:49 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:45:38 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:38:12 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 16:14:39 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:12:53 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:09:20 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:16:08 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

Tim wrote:
Bill
Its Me wrote:
On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 5:49:39 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 12:54:46 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 12:27:31 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
Do I want to give this a shot? Looks damn good, and I'd bet all the
fat from the pork belly would
turn that otherwise dry pork loin into a connoisseur's dream:

https://www.traegergrills.com/recipe...oked-porchetta

Wife brought a loin home yesterday, and I just checked with the local
Lowes Foods and they have pork belly. I'll be cooking one of these
tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Please do! Our Costco carries both also.

Tim, John... I wanted to like it, but I just don't like the pork belly
that much. I followed their directions, and the loin is certainly moist
and tender, but the belly didn't render as much as I'd like. I've had
belly before and the fattiness of it just turns me off.

Trimmed of the excess fat and sliced up, it makes a pretty good sandwich.


John?s recipe probably requires a long, low slow cook, to render the fat.
I have had pork belly topped pizza and loved it. Did not seem greasy.
That was in New Zealand. So there has to be great ways to cook he big junk
of pork belly, instead of making it in to bacon. Admittedly the pork belly
I had several different ways in NZ and Australia was not big chunks.

......


Bill, I?d probably agree with you. I might be too impatient because I?m
not the type to watch a slow roast all day.

I do enjoy delicious and simple recipes. I just can?t spent all day
prepping and working an oven...


The nice thing about a pellet smoker is make sure there is a hopper full of
pellets and set the temperature. Go do other things for 6 hours or so.

I don't trust my Traeger that long. Had it shut down too many times. I
check it about once an hour
or so and give the pellets a stir every couple hours so they don't 'bridge'.


Contact Treager. Mine had the controller do some funky stuff and they sent
me a new one. Couple screws and plugs and easy replacement.

I'm on my third controller. Am thinking of switching controllers, but
this one seems to work - most
of the time.


Sounds more like the auger drive is bad.

It rotates at exactly the rpm called for by Traeger.


But intermittently from the look of it.

Well, it's supposed to be intermittent. The temperature is raised and lowered by the controller
turning the auger on and off. If it doesn't turn it on and off as it's supposed to, then the
controller is bad.

I imagine you could find a remote sense low temperature alarm
somewhere. I would think about making one but that might just be me
;-)

Once the temp gets to a certain point, the controller shuts off the grill. Then there is nothing to
do but start over.

I understand but if it alerted you when that happened, you could
immediately stir up the pellets and restart it instead of finding it
cold an hour or two later.

wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:19:49 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:45:38 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:38:12 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 16:14:39 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:12:53 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:09:20 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:16:08 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Tim wrote:
Bill
Its Me wrote:
On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 5:49:39 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 12:54:46 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 12:27:31 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
Do I want to give this a shot? Looks damn good, and I'd bet all the
fat from the pork belly would
turn that otherwise dry pork loin into a connoisseur's dream:

https://www.traegergrills.com/recipe...oked-porchetta

Wife brought a loin home yesterday, and I just checked with the local
Lowes Foods and they have pork belly. I'll be cooking one of these
tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Please do! Our Costco carries both also.

Tim, John... I wanted to like it, but I just don't like the pork belly
that much. I followed their directions, and the loin is certainly moist
and tender, but the belly didn't render as much as I'd like. I've had
belly before and the fattiness of it just turns me off.

Trimmed of the excess fat and sliced up, it makes a pretty good sandwich.


John?s recipe probably requires a long, low slow cook, to render the fat.
I have had pork belly topped pizza and loved it. Did not seem greasy.
That was in New Zealand. So there has to be great ways to cook he big junk
of pork belly, instead of making it in to bacon. Admittedly the pork belly
I had several different ways in NZ and Australia was not big chunks.

......


Bill, I?d probably agree with you. I might be too impatient because I?m
not the type to watch a slow roast all day.

I do enjoy delicious and simple recipes. I just can?t spent all day
prepping and working an oven...


The nice thing about a pellet smoker is make sure there is a hopper full of
pellets and set the temperature. Go do other things for 6 hours or so.

I don't trust my Traeger that long. Had it shut down too many times. I
check it about once an hour
or so and give the pellets a stir every couple hours so they don't 'bridge'.


Contact Treager. Mine had the controller do some funky stuff and they sent
me a new one. Couple screws and plugs and easy replacement.

I'm on my third controller. Am thinking of switching controllers, but
this one seems to work - most
of the time.


Sounds more like the auger drive is bad.

It rotates at exactly the rpm called for by Traeger.


But intermittently from the look of it.

Well, it's supposed to be intermittent. The temperature is raised and
lowered by the controller
turning the auger on and off. If it doesn't turn it on and off as it's
supposed to, then the
controller is bad.

I imagine you could find a remote sense low temperature alarm
somewhere. I would think about making one but that might just be me
;-)

Once the temp gets to a certain point, the controller shuts off the
grill. Then there is nothing to
do but start over.

I understand but if it alerted you when that happened, you could
immediately stir up the pellets and restart it instead of finding it
cold an hour or two later.


I have one now for maybe 10 years. One bad controller, they sent that and
a fan. Still have fan in box. Works great. If I replaced, would probably
be a Rectec. Buddy has one, works great, super good support. His 5th
wheel crushed the pellet box. No charge replacement.

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 22:37:53 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

wrote:
On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 15:19:49 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:45:38 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 05 Dec 2018 13:38:12 -0500, John H.
wrote:

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 16:14:39 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 16:12:53 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 23:09:20 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 20:16:08 -0000 (UTC), Bill
wrote:

Tim wrote:
Bill
Its Me wrote:
On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 5:49:39 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 12:54:46 -0800 (PST), Its Me wrote:

On Saturday, December 1, 2018 at 12:27:31 PM UTC-5, John H wrote:
Do I want to give this a shot? Looks damn good, and I'd bet all the
fat from the pork belly would
turn that otherwise dry pork loin into a connoisseur's dream:

https://www.traegergrills.com/recipe...oked-porchetta

Wife brought a loin home yesterday, and I just checked with the local
Lowes Foods and they have pork belly. I'll be cooking one of these
tomorrow. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Please do! Our Costco carries both also.

Tim, John... I wanted to like it, but I just don't like the pork belly
that much. I followed their directions, and the loin is certainly moist
and tender, but the belly didn't render as much as I'd like. I've had
belly before and the fattiness of it just turns me off.

Trimmed of the excess fat and sliced up, it makes a pretty good sandwich.


John?s recipe probably requires a long, low slow cook, to render the fat.
I have had pork belly topped pizza and loved it. Did not seem greasy.
That was in New Zealand. So there has to be great ways to cook he big junk
of pork belly, instead of making it in to bacon. Admittedly the pork belly
I had several different ways in NZ and Australia was not big chunks.

......


Bill, I?d probably agree with you. I might be too impatient because I?m
not the type to watch a slow roast all day.

I do enjoy delicious and simple recipes. I just can?t spent all day
prepping and working an oven...


The nice thing about a pellet smoker is make sure there is a hopper full of
pellets and set the temperature. Go do other things for 6 hours or so.

I don't trust my Traeger that long. Had it shut down too many times. I
check it about once an hour
or so and give the pellets a stir every couple hours so they don't 'bridge'.


Contact Treager. Mine had the controller do some funky stuff and they sent
me a new one. Couple screws and plugs and easy replacement.

I'm on my third controller. Am thinking of switching controllers, but
this one seems to work - most
of the time.


Sounds more like the auger drive is bad.

It rotates at exactly the rpm called for by Traeger.


But intermittently from the look of it.

Well, it's supposed to be intermittent. The temperature is raised and
lowered by the controller
turning the auger on and off. If it doesn't turn it on and off as it's
supposed to, then the
controller is bad.

I imagine you could find a remote sense low temperature alarm
somewhere. I would think about making one but that might just be me
;-)

Once the temp gets to a certain point, the controller shuts off the
grill. Then there is nothing to
do but start over.

I understand but if it alerted you when that happened, you could
immediately stir up the pellets and restart it instead of finding it
cold an hour or two later.


I have one now for maybe 10 years. One bad controller, they sent that and
a fan. Still have fan in box. Works great. If I replaced, would probably
be a Rectec. Buddy has one, works great, super good support. His 5th
wheel crushed the pellet box. No charge replacement.

I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

John H
- show quoted text -
I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

.......,
If bad lead

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:41:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

John H
- show quoted text -
I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

......,
If bad lead


huh??

John H
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:41:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

John H
- show quoted text -
I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

......,
If bad lead


huh??

———


I do t know how that happened. Text body didn’t make it.

If bad leads to worse you could always go back to charcoal. Lol!

$350.00 seems highuntell you look at the price of the professional competition grill smokers... Wow!
https://www.yodersmokers.com/frontiersman-trailer.html

On Thursday, December 6, 2018 at 11:30:28 AM UTC-5, Tim wrote:
John H
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:41:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

John H
- show quoted text -
I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

......,
If bad lead


huh??

———


I do t know how that happened. Text body didn’t make it.

If bad leads to worse you could always go back to charcoal. Lol!

$350.00 seems highuntell you look at the price of the professional competition grill smokers... Wow!
https://www.yodersmokers.com/frontiersman-trailer.html

And that's for a stick-fed smoker. It is custom built, though. Yoder makes some nice stuff. Here's their top-of-the-line pellet grill.

https://www.yodersmokers.com/cimarron-pellet-smoker.html

I bought a pellet grill from this company:

https://memphisgrills.com/

Designed, built and shipped from their factory in Minnesota. When I ordered mine I called to check on it, and they rang me through to the production supervisor. He'd just come out of a meeting, and confirmed they'd be running my model later that week.

On 12/6/18 11:30 AM, Tim wrote:
John H
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:41:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

John H
- show quoted text -
I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

......,
If bad lead


huh??

———


I do t know how that happened. Text body didn’t make it.

If bad leads to worse you could always go back to charcoal. Lol!

$350.00 seems highuntell you look at the price of the professional competition grill smokers... Wow!
https://www.yodersmokers.com/frontiersman-trailer.html



*This* is classic porchetta:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5qJ3MAPxS8

On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 08:30:26 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

John H
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 07:41:12 -0800 (PST), Tim wrote:

John H
- show quoted text -
I hate the thought of replacing the grill. Other companies make controllers and even motor/auger
combinations that will fit the Traeger. Hell, $350 is too much to throw out the window. But then
again, there is the philosophy of not chasing sunk costs. Oh well, I can live with it.

......,
If bad lead


huh??

———


I do t know how that happened. Text body didn’t make it.

If bad leads to worse you could always go back to charcoal. Lol!

$350.00 seems highuntell you look at the price of the professional competition grill smokers... Wow!
https://www.yodersmokers.com/frontiersman-trailer.html

Or start using charcoal in this fancy-assed Traeger!