Originally Posted by
SASless
Gas....Charcoal....obsolete.
Wood Pellet Grills and Smokers are the new tech and combine the good features of the other two.
Plus you can sit down the Pub and control the Grill. using your smart phone!
Look up Recteq and their 700 model with Smoke Box......pretty close to perfection.
I was in Costco yesterday - they have a Traeger 'Redland' wood pellet grill on special for $800 (normally $900).
It definitely looks appealing, but the bottom line is that it won't do anything that I can't already do with my smoker and gas Weber (with many years of experience to perfect the technique). I also have a 4-channel remote sensor to monitor the internal meat temperatures in the smoker.
If/when it comes time to replace the existing hardware, I'll definitely consider a pellet grill, but the Weber is so well built it should last a long time (the first two gas grills I got were cheap $100 deals that fell apart in a few years, that's when I looked at the Weber and appreciated how well made it was and it's already lasted over 20 years).