| What are the barbecue pellets made from? |
| Traeger Barbecue Pellets are made from 100% all hardwood sawdust. The raw
material is ground, heated and fed through a die at enormous pressure-which forms the pellet. There is no glue or other binding agent used in forming the pellet. They are a bio-mass, 100% renewable resource product.
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| Barbecue pellets are the same as heating pellets, right? |
| Wrong! Fuel pellets are made from resinous soft wood, scrap wood with glues, paints, varnish. It doesn’t matter what the heating pellet is made from, its job is to create heat-not cook food. Substituting fuel pellets for barbecue pellets is DANGEROUS and UNHEALTHY! If heating pellets are used in a Traeger grill, they can coat the food with resins and creosote which produces a NASTY taste in the food! Using any other type of pellet will VOID OUR WARRANTY. The warning, ’NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION’ is printed on every heating pellet bag. |
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| How does the Traeger work? |
| Pellets from the hopper are automatically delivered to the firepot by an auger. Air is added by a blower fan, which makes the pellets burn like a miniature forge. The heat and smoke produced from the fire comes up and around the baffle pan and angled drip pan and surrounds the food like a convection oven. |
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| How does the smoker control work? |
| The smoker control is a solid-state timer. On HIGH, the auger runs all the time, delivering the maximum amount of fuel to the firepot. This creates a temperature between 400-425 degrees F. On MEDIUM, the auger runs for 2 minutes and then stops for 2 minutes. A temperature of approximately 300 degrees F. is produced when cooking on MEDIUM. On SMOKE, the auger runs for one minute and is off for 3 minutes. The auger comes back on for 1 minute. The pellets have burned down so far that there isn’t enough heat to generate a flame, but there is just enough heat to produce SMOKE. If you watch the grill in the smoke mode, every 3 minutes you’ll see the smoke being produced.. |
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| How long with a ten (10) pound bag of barbecue pellets last? |
| On average, a 10 pound bag of Traeger Barbecue Pellets should last for at least 5 uses of the grill. On HIGH, the grill uses 2 pounds of pellets per hour. On MEDIUM it is 1 pound per hour and on SMOKE it is one-half pound per hour. |
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| What flavors of Barbecue Pellet go with which kinds of food? |
| There’s a handy chart contained in the mini-cookbook that comes with every new Traeger Grill. (It might be best to photocopy the chart and put it in a page protector to use as an aide in answering this question.) |
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| How long have Traeger Pellet Grills been around? |
| Traeger began manufacturing the Wood Pellet Grill in 1986. Today, there are Traeger grill owners all across America and around the world. As a company, Traeger has been going strong since 1939. |
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| Why are Traeger Grills more expensive than run-of-the-mill gas grills? |
| The average price of a new gas grill is $600-$800. You’re talking about a product that is HANDCRAFTED—each grill is built by human beings, not machines. The grills are ALL AMERICAN MADE—rather than made overseas or out of the country. Remember-a Traeger grill is 4 Appliances in one! A grill, smoker, barbecue and wood pellet-fired oven. If you purchased each of these units separately, you’d be spending far more money than the actual cost of the Traeger. Something else-the Traeger is built to last-it will serve you for many more years than the average gas grill. |
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| Is there a cookbook available with the Traeger Grill? |
| Most definitely! Every Traeger grill comes with a mini-cookbook which is filled with delicious recipes, many developed by Traeger owners from across the country. There is also a three-ring binder style cookbook available that has over 150 different recipes. There is also a cookbook update with an additional 50 recipes available-it fits right in the binder with the rest of the recipes. |
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| Where do I get more barbecue pellets? |
| You can buy them from us. To guarantee availability, Traeger has a toll-free order line and on-line store where you can order pellets directly from the factory. No matter where you live, you will be able to have a ready supply of Traeger Barbecue Pellets. |
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| Why isn’t there a rotisserie unit for these grills? |
| The patented cooking system built into every Traeger means you don’t need a rotisserie. Those devices were designed for grills that cannot cook food evenly, so the meat had to be placed on a spit and mechanically turned in order to have the food cook evenly. With Traeger’s revolutionary in-direct cooking system, food cooks evenly and therefore doesn’t need a rotisserie. |
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| Do you need TECHNICAL SUPPORT? Want answers for TROUBLESHOOTING QUESTIONS? |
| Contact: Traeger 24 HOUR HOTLINE 1-800-TRAEGER (872-3437) or www.traegerindustries.com click on "Service Department" for quick questions and answers. |
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