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If you don't need a large cooking area and can look past a few inconsistencies, the 440 delivers good results at an unbeatable price. Our shorter smoking and grilling sessions, however, left meat with a smoky-clean flavor and nice sear.Ī medium-sized grill, the 440 can hold about 19 burgers. These fluctuations gave pork shoulder a somewhat astringent taste. We also noted some temperature dips during our long smoke test, about 50☏ below the preset temperature. The grill does have some hard-to-avoid hot spots, with the firebox adjacent to the cooking space and a heat shield that doesn't cover the entire grill. The 440 outperformed some more expensive models in heating time, retention, and temperature recovery. The Pit Boss 440 is a stripped-down, no-frills smoker grill. Also, the dome thermometer was out of sync with the control panel. The temperature can fluctuate, and we found a hot spot when smoking and baking.

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Extra Features: Stainless steel racks, bamboo cutting board, pellet storage bin, Bluetooth probes.

If you're inclined, the app connectivity is compatible with Amazon Alexa or Google Home. It's one of the best set-it-and-forget-it models on the market for grilling and smoking, and its smart features actually made cooking more enjoyable for us. With Bluetooth probe thermometers and a touchscreen control panel, this grill monitors its ambient temperature, food temperature, and even low pellet supply in the hopper. Three tiers of stainless steel grates allowed us to move food on and off the grill easily. We like its large capacity, which can handle up to eight racks of ribs, nine chickens, or six pork butts. Test after test, the Timberline stood out for the amount of smoke it gave chicken, pizza, flank steaks, and pork shoulder (the juiciest pork shoulder any of the grills produced). The cost is due, in part, to its double-wall construction and convection design, which paid off in the grill's superior heat control and retention. The most expensive grill on this list, the Timberline has a high cost-to-value ratio. Though not significant, the temperature hovered about 5☏ less than our desired temperature during the smoking test.

Extra Features: Grease and ash collection system, LCD control panel, smoke boost, app-controlledĪt 238 pounds, it's heavy to move.

Finally, the EX4 costs about as much as the average pellet grill, which makes it a great value overall.

Connected to probes, the app let us monitor and adjust the heat, and it prompted us when the time came to turn the meat. The grill has an LCD display for controlling settings, and we found its app quite useful. The EX4 checked the boxes for easy assembly and cleanup a bin for both grease and ash helps with the latter. A dark, even bark formed around the pork shoulder we smoked for almost 10 hours. While the EX4 didn't produce very distinct grill marks, it redeemed itself as a smoker with dark grill marks and a nice char on flank steaks after about an hour and 20 minutes of smoking. It can burn as hot as 600☏, and its large grilling area can accommodate about 13 burgers for high-heat grilling or three briskets for smoking. The EX4 has excellent heat control and (more importantly) retention, thanks to its porcelain enamel finish. The second-generation EX4 aced our grilling, smoking, and baking tests with consistent and even heating.

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We wish we could see whether the ash bin is full without removing it. We put 19 pellet grills through several common cooking scenarios, assessing them in categories from assembly to heat recovery. As such, these grills heat quickly, maintain heat well, and recover temperature rapidly after you add food or open the lid.

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Most pellet grills have an electric igniter of some sort, plus a fan that creates convection and moves the smoke evenly around the inside of the cook chamber. Pellets ignite quickly, burn hot, and provide smoke. In cases like these, pellet grills are the answer.Īs the name suggests, pellet grills burn small wood pellets. I might (hypothetically, of course) want to give a frozen pizza a wood oven taste when making one from scratch isn't an option. Sometimes, I want to slow-smoke food and control the level of smoke imbued without being tied to the pit for hours. Sometimes, I just want to grill some food quickly with the wood fire taste that's unachievable with a gas grill.

Speaking as someone who's been voted most likely to dig a pit, build a fire, and slow roast meats on a spit on a random Tuesday, just because I can, and have, doesn't mean I want to.