The second-generation EX4 aced our grilling, smoking, and baking tests with consistent and even heating.
We wish we could see whether the ash bin is full without removing it. We put 19 pellet grills through several common cooking scenarios, assessing them in categories from assembly to heat recovery. As such, these grills heat quickly, maintain heat well, and recover temperature rapidly after you add food or open the lid. Most pellet grills have an electric igniter of some sort, plus a fan that creates convection and moves the smoke evenly around the inside of the cook chamber. Pellets ignite quickly, burn hot, and provide smoke. In cases like these, pellet grills are the answer.Īs the name suggests, pellet grills burn small wood pellets. I might (hypothetically, of course) want to give a frozen pizza a wood oven taste when making one from scratch isn't an option.
Sometimes, I want to slow-smoke food and control the level of smoke imbued without being tied to the pit for hours. Sometimes, I just want to grill some food quickly with the wood fire taste that's unachievable with a gas grill. Speaking as someone who's been voted most likely to dig a pit, build a fire, and slow roast meats on a spit on a random Tuesday, just because I can, and have, doesn't mean I want to.
