Traeger

Traeger is for people who want a pellet grill that can handle smoking, roasting and grilling without turning backyard cooking into a charcoal ritual. By our assessment, its appeal is the steady temperature control and the set-it-and-wait style that made pellet cooking popular with a lot of home users. The honest limit is that it depends on electricity and wood pellets, so it is not the same as a simple charcoal kettle or a gas grill. In practice, it asks for more upkeep than a basic gas barbecue, because you have pellets to manage and parts to clean, but less attention than tending a live fire. It sits in the middle of the outdoor-cooking market as a convenience-first smoker, not a purist’s pit. People who want wood-pellet smoke and easier temperature management are the obvious audience; people who want the cheapest, bare-bones grill should look elsewhere. The brand is now closely tied to the whole pellet-grill category.