I bought a pellet smoker. It was not what all the hype made it out to be. To many moving parts, requires electricity and to me doesn’t feel like cooking with fire. It is basically an outdoor oven. Went back to a kamabo style smoker. Best decision I made!

Justin, nice to have you back making some content! Your grills are always so clean, any chance you’d make a video detailing some tips on cleaning ?

It’s what we in the business call junk. Put it by the trash and consider it a lesson on internet buying. Say goodbye.

I bought a GMG Davy Crockett off marketplace a couple years ago. Cleaned it up. Used it like 5 times. It never was consistent in temps. Seems like it's usually about 40+ degrees higher than what you set it at. And it has a grease leak. I got a new thermometer/sensor but I haven't put it in and just been using my Kettle and WSM. Maybe I'll dig into it again when I'm not super busy.

i used to have sand in my waterbowl with alufoil on top.

Do you still recommend this grill? Thanks

Do one with chicken and a pork butt. Awesome video

Thanks for showing this. Gonna make one for the 22

If you bought a pellet grill you got scammed. If you accepted a free pellet grill you got scammed. Period. Real bbqs use chacoal or wood. Period. Nothing to argue.

The wsm is my cooler and I love it. I’ll watch all your wsm video twice.

304SS can become magnetic when cold formed and not heat treated to excess of 1000+- deg F.

I'm too lazy for all of that, i just stick to cheap grates and just burn them out and brush them off before and after each use. Need to replace them after a couple of years, but they're cheap, cheaper than all chemicals and time i would need to spend to maintain a nice expensive grate. But I'm no professional, and i don't grill every day or week.

Doesn’t this burn you up!

I'd love to have one, but I'm sure it is out of my price range

New to your channel awesome I will be doing that this holiday season thanks brother for making the video..

Lesson learned. Let the buyer beware. I love my camp chef 24sg. Four years old and cooking and smoking like champ. I clean it after every cook. Only complaint is the bronze paint oxidizes and fades. Oh well.

Does this apply to the wsm 18" also?

A few of my Bison friends are a wee bit sad today. They're out back holding up their "we're not buffalo" signs. I had to calm them down the only way I know how... A lil' low n slow bovine attitude adjustment... Works every time. 😆

Spider-22 from Slider Grills for the Weber 22. It’s a good way to start your pellet journey. I’m enjoying mine.

Long as you didn’t go above &25 you’re good. It’s the cook not the pit

Pit Boss has warranties got a Tailgater free , called Pit Boss got bunch free parts !!!

Great video. What do you suggest for the weber cookbox? Mine is all black and can't remove it.

I don't think you were scammed. I think you got some wonderful content of what you had to go through to get an old second hand pellet grill up to scratch. It is a journey that everyone is interested in. I also have a second hand pellet grill and after spending the time and money fixing it up, it hasn't needed a cent spent on it with over 300 cooks on the log. I couldn't be happier with it.

I got a classic Webber. Grill grates were 3 years old. Nasty. I just bought a new grate for bout 25 bucks. Well worth it rather than cleaning. I suppose if I would have done the proper cleaning between cooks that would make a difference. Great vid

Stainless steel pot scrubbers work great on the grates I've found and cleaning inside too.

Love your sense of humor. I hope you didn't spend more than $50 for it. Also happy to see that you are going to get value from it.

I throw all my Weber grates, heat deflectors etc in my oven on self clean. Easily the quickest labor free way to get your grills looking new

You might have got scammed but I didn't because I got great troubleshooting content!

You can tell by looking at it that it was not taken care of.. I have a camp chef over 10 years old and looks clean in comparison and never a problem.. camp chef grills are great. Mine was purchased early on and was half price of treager..

Low and slow=water bowl. Hot and fast=no water bowl.

Lid up on start up for that grill. Lid down for shutdown. Exhaust cover needs to be higher also.

I'm glad to see you doing this. There are so many used smokers being sold where the buyers are not aware of the underlying issues.

I remember this video

Why get a grill if you have to break your balls to clean it. Screw that. Pull out about five inches of aluminum foil. Make it into a ball. Now rub it up and down your grill grates and watch all the 💩 get scraped off. When cooking I also put aluminum foil under the flame tubes on the floor of the grill. Again all the 💩 falls on the aluminum foil. Works great in your fireplace to. Don’t let all the ashes fall on the brick. The dura flame or wood ash falls on the foil. Fold it up and toss away. Enjoy

5 years later, the Weber cover is $72

You took this a whole lot better than I would have for sure. I’m sure you’ll have that baby purring like a kitten before you know it!

Why would you even buy THAT! Bro.....

Now, I'd suggest a cover for the pellet grill. Last fall I didn't clear out my auger, and moisture got to the pellets running through the auger and they swell up with moisture. A small pellet will expand to over a half inch in diameter and virtually lock the auger and tube together so it can't turn. In my Pit Boss, I had to remove the hopper, fan, and rotate the auger counter-clockwise to extract it and use my drill, with a special bit, I have to remove the jammed wood from the tube. Now I have a cover to keep the moisture from contacting the pellets and this fall I will empty it for the end of season smoke!

Thank -You! For great data points delivered in a happy amusing production . Long ago and far from you I was in the broadcast field, your editing and production skills, so far are the benchmark all other content providers should envy. I’m done gushing, but there’s one last point that needs to be made . . . THANK-YOU for deliberately NOT SMACKING into the microphone, those that do and think they’re being cute are the epitome of gauche!

The ribs there are FANTASTIC and so is the brisket

I have an old cooler I use. Boil a bucket of water. Pour the water in the cooler. Put the grates in water and let it sit over night. Most of the gunk will fall right off. The rest scrapes off easily with a scotch pad. Also, sometimes the color/shine seen from the wire wheel is actually the coating from the wire wheel so make sure to scrub with soap afterwards.

That pit's been rode hard and put away wet ...

I assume you already tried doing a high temperature burn-off? That's really all I do to clean my grates. I don't cook with my gas grill, it's basically just a self cleaning oven for my pellet grill and kamado grates. I just use it burn off everything and turn it to ash. For what it's worth, I do have a set of Grillgrates that seem to retain the heat in the grill better. On high heat, the grill thermometer gets up to the 800s and effectively turns it all to ash.

The bottle opener looks good!

This was a roller coaster ride from start to finish. Sorry it didn't work out as planned. The music was fire, though!

Oh Dr Jason...I mean Justin, It is a good thing I was watching this at 11 o'clock at night, my time, I was so tempted to call you. As it is, you probably heard me laughing all the way from California. I am sharing the video on my FB page. I cannot wait fir the continued saga! 😂

lol. What did u pay 15.00

That’s why u don’t Do used to

I was scanning YT to look for videos of the stingray experience in Cayman, and I stumbled across your video. You guys had me laughing throughout, so Im going to click subscribe!😂😂