brandonh1987
Full Fledged Farker
How is it performing now? Have they fixed issues? How does the low and slow food come out? Obviously not the smoke from a stick burner, but how does it compare to the older traegers?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Food for thought : a few months ago I went to a Traeger Workshop because Diva-Q was hosting the class. I quickly found out the Workshop was basically just a Traeger sales session. Anyway, out of 50 people there I was the only one without a Traeger. The sales rep was talking about how great Traeger was but he asked people to raise their hands if they had ever had a flameout. EVERY single person raised their hands without even thinking about it. 49/49 Traeger owners had experienced a flameout.
I will also note that they spent 10 minutes telling us about how amazing their Super Smoke feature was and how it neglected every other factor and only focused on giving off a perfect smoke profile. This is funny because so many people on here (and a few in the class) were discussing the soot issues they've had with their Timberlines.
Looking at the old thread here on the Brethren it appears as many people ended up selling their Timberline out of frustration.
I’ve seen the timberline in person and while I will say the fit and finish is extremely nice compared to my lil Tex, for the price a mak or Yoder would be a better choice. They both offer direct sear options and offer subjectively better quality. The mak controller is probably better as well, I’d imagine the Yoder is about equal.
Well they aren't exactly cheap so I don't think that saying really applies here.There is an old saying "you get what you pay for".