I resisted hopping on the Traeger grill bandwagon for ages. Trendy though they are, smokers seemed unnecessarily complicated, took forever to cook anything, and were only useful for all-day briskets, ...

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Does Recteq or Traeger make the better pellet grill for wood-fired flavor? We put them to the test to find out.

Brian Bennett is a former senior writer for the home and outdoor section at CNET. Meat, fire and smoke, are all essential to good barbecue. Together they can combine to conjure food that's ...

Wood-burning pellet smokers enjoy a loyal following, just ask any Traeger grill owner. Fully automated, they make cooking low-and-slow barbecue a breeze, and they imbue the food they prepare with ...

I’m not a grilling master like Forbes contributor Larry Olmsted. But I spend a lot of time in my back yard, year-round (even in three or four feet of snow), manning Weber and Napoleon grills in my ...

I got my Traeger, an earlier version of the Ironwood 650, about 6 years ago. It was the fifth grill I added to my arsenal. (To say I’m a grilling enthusiast might be an understatement.) Back then, ...

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The Traeger Timberline 850 is particularly great for low-and-slow cooking with smoke, because it can keep temperatures Constant within a relatively narrow range, adding fuel from its hopper as needed ...