MeatyOakerSmoker
is Blowin Smoke!
I just received my Grilla Silverbac Original. I assembled it, seasoned it, and it was ready for the first cook pretty darn quickly. Luckily our babysitter decided to bring me a crazy amount of meat to smoke for her so I was set to go.
It same very well packaged and placed in my garage.
Assembled:
First cook which wasn’t small by any means:
The ribs:
This is the following cook. I did a small one for our family. Beef short ribs and duck breast.
I got to say I’m pretty impressed with the company. The delivery process was seamless. The standard screw set you get for assembly came with everything you needed to get yourself up and running quickly, including wrenches and a screwdriver. The quality and weight of the components are solid. The seasoning process is simple and customer service responded quickly to every question I had which were mainly me being a bit OCD rather than lack of documentation on their end. Given the fact that I ran it in damn chilly weather ie high 20s or low 30s and for 10 hours or more, it didn’t churn through pellets as quickly as I had feared.
The big cook wasn’t the perfect run because it was our babysitters food so it went home with her and although I had a small taste and she offered us more, it wasn’t seasoned my way and I didn’t purchase the meat so I don’t know if it’s comparing apples to apples. However two things rang true, the ease of a pellet smoker is undeniable and the smoke ring and flavor were definitely present. The small cook I did wasn’t my normal meal.
I’ll report more about cleanup, flavor, etc in the future but as far as having a smoker that is easy to use the cold and gets you up and running when you don’t have a lot of time I’m definitely happy with the purchase.
Ok so what don’t I like:
1) bottom cabinet doors are flimsy
2) you need to buy an accessory kit to keep the dripping from getting on your patio
3) I noticed random puffs of smoke
4) I believe I read it should have a temp variation of +/- 10 but I saw up to 25 degree swings
5) really minor masking tap along the lid didn’t come off well
Smitty might be interested in Grilla’s retort to having the very best possible controller:
https://grillagrills.com/pid-controllers/
Anyway I’m pretty happy overall that there are now more opportunities to cook with ease but time will tell if I like it better than the flavor of my Lang which is so far a no.
It same very well packaged and placed in my garage.
Assembled:
First cook which wasn’t small by any means:
The ribs:
This is the following cook. I did a small one for our family. Beef short ribs and duck breast.
I got to say I’m pretty impressed with the company. The delivery process was seamless. The standard screw set you get for assembly came with everything you needed to get yourself up and running quickly, including wrenches and a screwdriver. The quality and weight of the components are solid. The seasoning process is simple and customer service responded quickly to every question I had which were mainly me being a bit OCD rather than lack of documentation on their end. Given the fact that I ran it in damn chilly weather ie high 20s or low 30s and for 10 hours or more, it didn’t churn through pellets as quickly as I had feared.
The big cook wasn’t the perfect run because it was our babysitters food so it went home with her and although I had a small taste and she offered us more, it wasn’t seasoned my way and I didn’t purchase the meat so I don’t know if it’s comparing apples to apples. However two things rang true, the ease of a pellet smoker is undeniable and the smoke ring and flavor were definitely present. The small cook I did wasn’t my normal meal.
I’ll report more about cleanup, flavor, etc in the future but as far as having a smoker that is easy to use the cold and gets you up and running when you don’t have a lot of time I’m definitely happy with the purchase.
Ok so what don’t I like:
1) bottom cabinet doors are flimsy
2) you need to buy an accessory kit to keep the dripping from getting on your patio
3) I noticed random puffs of smoke
4) I believe I read it should have a temp variation of +/- 10 but I saw up to 25 degree swings
5) really minor masking tap along the lid didn’t come off well
Smitty might be interested in Grilla’s retort to having the very best possible controller:
https://grillagrills.com/pid-controllers/
Anyway I’m pretty happy overall that there are now more opportunities to cook with ease but time will tell if I like it better than the flavor of my Lang which is so far a no.
