New Char-Griller Pellet Grill

Arrrgh!!! Say it aint so.

That's a lot of money for a disposable grill -- sorry, but any char-griller I've ever owned was built with parts that lasted about 2-3 years that were never again available because they changed their models so often. Otherwise, it looks very interesting. I believe a Traeger at the Costco roadshow is only about $100 more and I'd be much more inclined to go with that. Very interesting though and thanks for the post -- wonder what these will cost at the end of the season.

When I clicked onto the link it did not come up with a price.

spider22 said:

When I clicked onto the link it did not come up with a price.

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It's $499 in the bottom picture.

you know why that's cool ? because they're going mainstream and lowes will HAVE TO sell cooking pellets at a reasonable price . not $1/lb !

Interesting...I'll be watching this

Woody1911a1 said:

you know why that's cool ? because they're going mainstream and lowes will HAVE TO sell cooking pellets at a reasonable price . not $1/lb !

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Looks like they are already selling pellets. Char-griller branded pellets at $10 for 20lb bag.

http://www.lowes.com/pd_269625-1646-9620_0__?productId=4222471&Ntt=pellets

I would buy one of these if my local lowes had them in stock.

shucker said:

I would buy one of these if my local lowes had them in stock.

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Spend a extra $200 and get a GMG Daniel Boone. Really nice controller and 150-500 degree temps. If I were to buy a pellet grill specifically for low and slow, that would be it. Nicely priced, excellent customer service and will last 10 times as long as that throw away grill. I have seen some at academy. Very low quality, horrible fit and finish compared to a GMG.

+1 on the GMG. I have the Jim Bowie model and would buy a GMG over a char-griller any day.

Looks cheesy to me.

jmoney7269 said:

Spend a extra $200 and get a GMG Daniel Boone. Really nice controller and 150-500 degree temps. If I were to buy a pellet grill specifically for low and slow, that would be it. Nicely priced, excellent customer service and will last 10 times as long as that throw away grill. I have seen some at academy. Very low quality, horrible fit and finish compared to a GMG.

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Everyone bashed the akorns when they first came out. "Spend the extra $ and buy a green egg". By all accounts, the akorns are more than acceptable for their price point. This may be the same. $200 more is alomst 50% more.

Looks really similar to those outdoor gourmet grills, and the cheaper model traegers. You can always find plenty of them on craigslist for $150-$250.

chargriller coming out with a pellet grill isn't much of a surprise to me. that may be because i have an akorn, which i like, for the money. that being said, i'm not a pellet pooper guy.

I was FINALLY able to get my hands on some meat that was smoked on a pellet pooper a few weeks ago and all I can say is that I'm glad I never went the pellet head route. It was some pulled pork and the guy said he used 100% hickory pellets and cooked the butt on "smoke mode" during the entire 14 hour cook without foiling. I'm not entirely clear on what exactly smoke mode means, but the smoke flavor was a .5 on a scale of 1-10 and believe me that's being generous. To each their own though. Some folks swear by pellet poopers so they must be doing something right.

shucker said:

Everyone bashed the akorns when they first came out. "Spend the extra $ and buy a green egg". By all accounts, the akorns are more than acceptable for their price point. This may be the same. $200 more is alomst 50% more.

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But this discussion is not asking about acorns. It's asking about a char griller pellet grill. Who's fit and finish are horrible and it has 50+\- temp swings Becaise of it. I been a pellethead for about 6 years. I have cooked on every single pellet grill imaginable. You can either take my Word or not, won't make me one bit of differEnce. I have developed PID controllers and released the plans to the world on pelletheads. IMO you comparing a chargriller pellet grill to a gmg is like me comparing my Pitmaker vault to a vertical brinkman. It's just not in the same league. If you wanna compare the acorn to a primo xl it narrows the gap a little but still not in the same league. I could compare the fit and finish of a backwoods to a comp ready Pitmaker BBQ vault while they might cook close to the same food with water, try to run that backwoods on Lump and a Pitmaker vault without water, the results again will be totally different. There is no wrong choice in this situation, but it yOu can afford $500 for a shotty pellet grill, you can afford $200 for a great pellet grill that will more than outlast the shotty one by double. Now where is the value at?

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I was FINALLY able to get my hands on some meat that was smoked on a pellet pooper a few weeks ago and all I can say is that I'm glad I never went the pellet head route. It was some pulled pork and the guy said he used 100% hickory pellets and cooked the butt on "smoke mode" during the entire 14 hour cook without foiling. I'm not entirely clear on what exactly smoke mode means, but the smoke flavor was a .5 on a scale of 1-10 and believe me that's being generous. To each their own though. Some folks swear by pellet poopers so they must be doing something right.

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I have many 1st place rib trophies from my traeger. The best being 1st of 108 entries. I guess that's why Todd johns of plowboys is so famous, Because he close to swept the invitational on 2 mirror image fec 100's. And people think that Pellet grills can't cook, lol. There is undeniable proof that pellet grills win alot more than people think. I know that on pelletheads, some of the top 10 ribs intue jack and invitational we're cooked on pellet poopers. Actually there is a thread goin on right now abot fec vs backwoods where the competition guy liked the fec pulled pork better.
In this case sir, that particular pellethead didnt know what he was doin. Anyone that has ever eaten my pellet pooper food has said it was the best ever. Got lots of trophies to go along with that claim, in Tx of all places.

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Everyone bashed the akorns when they first came out. "Spend the extra $ and buy a green egg". By all accounts, the akorns are more than acceptable for their price point. This may be the same. $200 more is alomst 50% more.

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I went....on three different occasions, to the grill store to buy a BGE. I chickened out each time because I was scared to plunk down that much dinero on a kamado. I'd had limited experience with such.

I was willing to spend the $299 on the Akorn with no fear.

Almost a year later I can say that it was the best grilling money I've ever spent.

I now have full confidence in knowing that all my grilling-smoking-searing can be done with a kamado.

I wish Char-Griller would upgrade their web page to include more Akorn related items.