Our testing gives us no reason to question this. inches of cooking area to make meal preparation easier for larger families in one go that is way better than a charcoal smoker that takes a couple of minutes to get you started with cooking. AmazingRibs.com promises to never sell or distribute any info about you individually without your express permission, and we promise not to, ahem, pepper you with email or make you eat spam. Camp Chef PG24 DLX Pellet Grill Important Features. For the price, we are impressed and pleased to see this in this grill. It's not hard, but it's a dirty task. YOU NEED ONE! Threads 3 Messages 4. The "ZG" model is not listed on the Camp Chef Site and the only clear differences I can see is the legs and the warranty (1Y instead of 3). Although we were disappointed in the high temperature performance of the Slide and Grill function, this is a solid, well made pellet smoker with beaucoup capacity and useful features. It can be added onto current Camp Chef SmokePro Pellet Grills by removing the right side shelf and using the existing hardware to mount the sear burner. Click here to read how we test, about our medals, and what they mean. Regardless of the terminology, their promo material and videos created the impression SG would give a lot more sizzle than it did. Blackstone's Rangetop Combo With Deep Fryer does it all! Pellet Reviews, Pellet Questions and more. By placing the heat source behind and under the smokebox instead of off to the side, Open Range produces even temperature from left to right, something almost impossible to achieve with a standard barrel shaped offset. It is compatible with the Camp Chef Connect App, and can use the Slide and Grill Technology’s Direct Flame mode to reach temperatures of up to 650°F (343°C). If you love a smoky flavor to your meats, but don’t like using propane or charcoal, a grill such as this that uses wood pellets is definitely an option you need to consider. Packaging was excellent with all parts held firmly in molded foam inserts. Our talented team of paid moderators will be with you shortly. They are much faster and much more accurate than dial thermometers. Threads 3 Messages 4. Click here to learn more about pellet smokers. Below is the Camp Chef SG with the cooking grates and drip plate removed. The heat diffuser is suspended on rails and attached to a sliding rod. The PK-360, with 360 square inches of cooking space, this rust free, cast aluminum charcoal grill is durable and easy to use. But it's also gaining popularity with people who want to add a small, set it and forget it pellet smoker to their backyard arsenal. It costs more than the Best Buys, but offers the u-shaped burner of the Editors' Choice. It’s a mid-level gas grill that guarantees more space and new features to enjoy. Our most important source of sustenance is people who join our Pitmaster Club, but please don’t think of it as a donation. This gas grill is highly suitable for big family gatherings and summertime parties. We usually grant permission and don't charge a fee. Whether you are grilling in the park, on an expedition, or... the world's most carefully tested and objective gear reviews, Excellent cooking performance, smaller and lighter than most, Super non-stick grill surface, easy to clean, snazzy side tables, excellent temperature control, wind resistant, always starts first try, Heavy, no lid latch, disposable aluminum grease trap inserts fly away in the wind, can be challenging to attach disposable propane canister at first, Limited surface space, not the most powerful, At a reasonable price, this grill brings in some more advanced attributes, Our favorite grill due to the excellent cooking performance in a light package, A high-performing tabletop model that heats up evenly, has solid temperature control, and simple cleanup, A small product for preparing any of your favorite grillables in virtually any setting, A hot, moderately-priced little grill for long time portable use. We had no problems with the wind resistance of the Camp Chef. Camp Chef's Woodwind Pellet Smoker is a quality smoker and super searing grill wrapped up in one. Camp Chef's SG 24 inch wide smoker comes with two coated, thin steel rod primary cooking grates that provide 418 square inches of cook surface. The initial product line grew to include patio cooking. The Editors' Choice Napoleon TravelQ 285 sets the bar for control in a portable grill. infrared heat from intense flame. But we're easy! We have also gathered info from the manufacturer, owners and other reliable sources. We can up your game! However, Camp Chef offers the SmokePro BBQ Sear Box, an optional LP gas sear burner, that solves the problem. The Camp Chef SmokePro DLX sports … The options between these two extremes are clear and well graduated. The small 31.5" x 29.5" footprint makes it ideal for use where BBQ space is limited, as on a condo patio. Pull the grill knob and the diffuser slides away to expose the firepot. Or pancakes, fajitas, grilled cheese, you name it. You still have to clean out the bottom of the smoke box periodically, but you don't have to worry about a clogged firepot that could impair the smoker's performance. To get permission, just click here. All trademarks property of their respective owners Many merchants pay us a small referral fee when you click our links and purchase from them. Camp Chef claims this only occurs on a small percentage of units. Camp Chef's solution is a "trap door" under the fire pot. Otherwise it sits out there vulnerable. Two plated steel rod upper grates add another 365 square inches of cooking space, almost doubling capacity. And remember, we only recommend products we love. The Camp Chef Portable BBQ Grill weighs 20 pounds. AmazingRibs.com is by far the largest and most popular barbecue and grilling website in the world with more than 3,000 pages of tested recipes, articles on technique, science, mythbusting, and product reviews. How can we improve GearLab? Camp Chef is a Utah-based company that has produced outdoor and camping cookware for 30 years, starting with camping stoves and adding cast iron pans and more recently pellet smokers to their offerings. Nov 27, 2020; primeone; Camp Chef Pellets. It was a close contender for our Best Buy award, but others edge it out. The quality of meat from this machine is astonishing. These features are incorporated to make your life easier while enhancing the grill’s overall performance. Where To Buy (Buying from these suppliers supports this website): The PK-360, with 360 square inches of cooking space, this rust free, cast aluminum charcoal grill is durable and easy to use. It can also be loaded down with thick, boneless-skinless chicken breasts and cook them "low and slow" without drying them out. Although the primary cooking surface is slightly cooler on the left side, overall heat is pretty even as shown in the burgers above and the chicken wings below. Why stink up the house deep frying and spatter all over? I have to say that this grill is the perfect choice for anyone who has been considering to buy a wood pellet grill. We were advised to remove the ash cup and smack the unfinished metal trap door vigorously with a hammer from underneath to loosen it up. The hamburgers below weren't bad but didn't get the high heat needed to develop a delicious brown crust. Camp Chef Grills Reviews & Deals For Today. We go a step further. All these less expensive competitors offer enough control for cooking almost anything you might want to cook. You help support OutdoorGearLab's product testing and reviews by purchasing from our retail partners. Material on GearLab is copyrighted. Furthermore, the Camp Chef’s SmokePro SG has two meat probes, a menu dial, and wireless capability, all thanks to the Camp Chef App. Our Editors independently research, test, and rate the best products. If you have questions related to barbecue or grilling, please post them to the comments section at the bottom of any page. It was a close contender for our Best Buy award, but others edge it out. If you’ve been around for a while, you know I can’t help myself when it comes to Camp Chef’s new releases. Does that mean it's built with a thinner metal or cheaper material? Camp Chef says they claim SG provides "direct flame grilling", not searing. A typical design includes a thermostat under the hood that monitors cooking temperature and feeds wood pellets to a firepot as needed to maintain your set temperature. Here's a flank steak on the SG, right over the firepot, flipped after five minutes. Do your fried chicken and calamari outside. When fuses blow on most other pellet smoker controllers, changing them can take some effort. The u-shaped burner of the Camp Chef makes a little more of its surface area usable. For this Camp Chef model, the SG is short for Slide and Grill, which describes the design. We block all third party ads, we give members free ebooks, magazines, interviews, webinars, more recipes, a monthly sweepstakes with prizes worth up to $2,000, discounts on products, and best of all a community of like-minded cooks free of flame wars. Weber’s Genesis line has long been one of the most popular choices for gas grillers. In short, the Camp Chef makes all the heat you need. If you have business or tecnical issues, please contact us with this email form. It arrived in a huge, heavy duty box. Use the filters below to refine your search. Camp Chef Smokepro XT is one of the best gas grills in the market today. All you need to do is add wood to the tray above the burner to start smokin'. The Chinese manufacturing facility that makes SmokePro SG applies a coating to prevent rust while the unit is in transit or in storage. Although pellet smokers don't create much ash, they need regular cleaning, which is a pain with most other designs because the greasy grates and drip pan must be removed to get at the fire pot where the pellets burn (below). Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Camp Chef PG24MZG SmokePro Slide Smoker with Fold Down Front Shelf Wood Pellet Grill, Pack of 1, Black at Amazon.com. I couldn’t decide if the Woodwind was large enough for the added food for when guests or family visit. Set ThermoTemp's dial from 175° to 350°F and the thermostat inside will adjust the burner just like an indoor kitchen oven. Camp Chef's SmokePro SG 24 Pellet Grill aspires to be both a smoker and high temperature grill. The rectangular heat diffuser in the middle covers the firepot. Like any single burner grill, it cannot do indirect grilling. Contact Us. Camp Chef Woodwind SG (Slide N Grill) Sirloin Burgers Done to Pefection! Overall, the Camp Chef is as hot as you should need. If you are not familiar with pellet smokers, they are thermostatically controlled outdoor ovens that burn wood pellets and can be set to exact cooking temperatures just like an indoor kitchen oven. All you need to do is attach the legs, side shelf, chimney and lid handle - no wiring required. The regulator really needs to be removed for transport. The piezo ignitor of the Camp Chef works most of the time. Camp Chef PG24MZG SmokePro Slide Smoker with Fold Down Front Shelf Wood Pellet Grill, Pack of 1, Black Visit the Camp Chef Store 4.7 out of 5 stars 426 ratings Camp Chef SmokePro SG Features. The two integrated meat probes enable you to monitor internal food temps on both levels, although cooking temps on the main and upper racks are pretty similar. Instead of a solid metal drip plate, SG has a louvered plate with rows of slits that expose foods to the direct heat of the firepot  flame. The Camp Chef can nearly do it all. We recommend this grill and nearly granted it our Best Buy Award. The firepot is usually covered by a metal heat diffuser. Although pellet smokers don't create much ash, they need regular cleaning, which is a pain with most other designs because the greasy grates and drip pan must be removed to get at the fire pot where the pellets burn (below). The Camp Chef SmokePro SG smoked meats flawlessly. 3) If you are a member of the Pitmaster Club, your comments login is probably different than your membership login. We are GDPR compliant (the stringent General Data Protection Regulations from the European Union that went into effect in 2018). Keep reading for our full product review. In my two posts on the Camp Chef SmokePro pellet grill range and the Woodwind pellet grills, I reference that on most models you have the option of adding either the propane Sear Box or Side Kick accessory.However, I only briefly touched on why you might want to consider adding one of these propane accessories to your wood pellet grill. This site is brought to you by readers like you who support us with their membership in our Pitmaster Club. Also, this Camp Chef Grill features incredible smart smoke technology that evenly distributes the wood-flavoured flavour in your meal. We extend this right to anyone, EU resident or not. Millions come to AmazingRibs.com every month for quality tested recipes, tips on technique, science, mythbusting, product reviews, and inspiration. Four-way venting means it's easy to set up for two zone cooking with more control than single vent Kamado grills. Quick Review. Virtually every time the Camp Chef grill is moved, the plate comes out like this and needs to be replaced. The two low-temp BBQ "Smoke" settings allow pellets to produce extra smoke by smoldering rather than burning. If you want even more smoking real estate, Camp Chef also offers a bigger SGX model. 1) Try to post your question to the appropriate page. To do any kind of serious grilling, you really need exposure to direct, high temperature heat, i.e. Though often referred to as pellet grills, cookers like this one are primarily smokers with limited grilling capability at best. In multiple spring time Rocky Mountain grilling sessions and our standard "fan test", the Camp Chef never blew out and stayed just hot enough to sear a steak. Camp Chef sent this little beast to me a couple of months ago and I can tell you right up front that for a portable pellet grill, it is everything you need and more for an RV or a camping trip where size matters.. Let's just start from the top.. The flat top does the burgers and the fryer does the fries. Now, this baby gets HOT! Camp Chef's customer service was aware of the problem. Napoleon's NK22CK-C Charcoal Kettle Grill puts a few spins on the familiar kettle design. It comes with a 429 sq. As noted above, the burner gets plenty hot for searing a steak. Click here to learn more about pellet smokers. The u-shaped burner delivers your chosen level of heat to all but the farthest corners of the rectangular grill surface. It comes almost fully assembled. We only make money if you purchase a product through our links, and we never accept free products from manufacturers. Copyright © 2005 to 2020 by AmazingRibs.com. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. The amazing Karubecue is the most innovative smoker in the world. I’ve always been curious about pellet grills, so when Camp Chef offered to send a Woodwind WiFi 24 for review, I jumped at the chance. But it is expensive to run a website with more than 4,000 pages and we don’t have a big corporate partner like TV network or a magazine publisher to subsidize us. For the surface area, this is right on par with the others. And with their WiFi capabilities you can control and monitor Davy Crocket from your smart phone or laptop. Reproduction without permission is prohibited. The new Genesis II E-335 offers solid performance, a sear burner for sizzling heat and an excellent warranty. Our Privacy Promise, Terms of Service, Code of Ethics. We purchased the Camp Chef SmokePro DLX Pellet Grill so our reviewer could put it to the test. The Camp Chef is more expensive than the award winners, but it has more even heating and greater maximum heat output. The u-shaped burner and wide-ranging knob of the Camp Chef give the user plenty of control. This Argentinian grill will get your flame on! Click here to learn more about benefits to membership. This photo shows the dislodged heat dispersal plate. I wanted to know whether the Woodwind could function as a regular grill when I wanted it to. Camp Chef SmokePro PG24 – Deluxe Pellet Grill Easily, the SmokePro PG24 is our favorite pellet smoker that hits a sweet spot regarding price and quality. Click here to learn more about benefits to membership. The souped up, notched dial thermostatic controller not only provides “set it and forget it” cooking, it also has an LED readout that toggles between your set cooking temp and internal meat temperatures monitored by two independent, stainless steel meat probes included with SG. All these less expensive competitors offer enough control for cooking almost anything you might want to cook. 2) Tell us everything we need to know to help such as the type of cooker and thermometer. The 16,000 BTU burner ranges from a low of 480°F to a high of 900°F, which is fantastic for reverse seared steaks. For the surface area and price, we are impressed to see the u-shaped burner under the hood of the Camp Chef. Camp Chef also offers a bigger SGX model. The best way to keep up with our new articles, new recipes, new product reviews, is to Subscribe To Our Free Email Newsletter, Smoke Signals. However, Slide and Grill equipped Camp Chef pellet grills have a mobile deflector plate that allows you to customize your grilling experience. We'll keep you up to date. We thank Camp Chef for providing a SmokePro SG for our tests. Max loves barbecue so much that he took his barbecue sauce recipes, had them bottled, and now sells them around the country. The primary portability issues we had are with the rattly construction, a heat disperser that inevitably dislodges during transport, and a regulator that sticks way out unless you unscrew it. It is our favorite smoker, period. This baby will cook circles around the cheap offset sideways barrel smokers because temperature control is so much easier. Here is a cross section representation of how it all works. Most pellet smokers aren't good at searing. In fact, the hinged lid with a handle on the front, spins in a rotary motion 180 degrees. This distributes the heat more evenly and makes for more heating power. Cook the steaks low and slow in the smoker at 225°F until the meat probe registers an internal temp of about 110°F, then slap them onto the sear box to sear and finish. In 2017 Camp Chef introduced their optional LP gas Sear Box which can be added onto all of their current SmokePro Pellet Smokers. At the price, the Camp Chef is all you can expect and offers plenty of control. Camp Chef PG24MZG SmokePro Slide Smoker Wood Pellet Grill, Black. Click Search to see all our Reviews and Ratings. As AmazingRibs.com's Vice President of Product Reviews & Keeper of the Flame, Max Good is the man in charge of finding the best products for the AmazingRibs.com Equipment Reviews section. Alas what looks good on paper sometimes doesn't work in the real world. They began in 1990 to address the cooking needs of campers, outdoors-men, and nature lovers. If you like AmazingRibs.com, please save this link and use it every time you go to Amazon. Screwing and unscrewing the regulator is somewhat tedious. A grill knob (below) located on the lower left side of the exterior of the smoker activates “grill” mode. SG suffers from the same problem that most pellet sear zones have. The grill is latest release of the brand and it is deliverable to most countries of the world when you buy the product on amazon. When we max out the burner knob, pretty much any food item we would put on there will char in just a few minutes. Slide and Grill was likely inspired by Camp Chef's unique and useful slide and clean ash removal system. These are products we have tested, won our top awards, and are highly recommend. The Camp Chef is pretty bulky for its cooking area. The hood is three inches taller than previous models to give extra head room for the upper racks. Camp Chef is a well known manufacturer of cook systems and camping grills, so you can expect that the build quality of their flat top grills … A good digital thermometer keeps you from serving dry overcooked food or dangerously undercooked food. But if you don't, click here to get your crazy hot Sear Box! Green Mountain's portable Davy Crockett Pellet Smoker is one mean tailgating and picnic machine. The Good-One Open Range is dramatically different from a traditional offset smoker. And you don't need permission to link to us. Both Best Buys are about the same size as the Camp Chef. Camp Chef claims that their Portable BBQ puts out 12000 BTUs. The Camp Chef is a basic, portable grill. GrillGrates(TM) amplify heat, prevent flareups, make flipping foods easier, kill hotspots, flip over to make a fine griddle, and can be easily rmoved from one grill to another.