Cooking with Wood

Hardwood Pellets

The experts agree, if you want the ultimate BBQ experience, you will need to use hardwood. Just the names of hardwoods like mesquite, hickory and cherry make your mouth water because we all recognize that they add flavor to the BBQ… But, because of the time and effort that were required to use hardwood to cook, it was left to the professionals and the pit masters. For the past 90 years, we have settled on using propane and charcoal because they were convenient for a backyard BBQ. Using hardwood was simply not convenient.

At least until now…

Traeger has developed a method that allows you to conveniently cook using pure hardwood. In fact, it is even easier, safer and more versatile to use wood than propane or charcoal… and the taste? Let’s just say you can “taste the difference!”

The breakthrough came when Traeger invented the hardwood pellet grill. By reducing pure hardwood to sawdust, and then compressing it into uniform, food-grade pellets, it is now possible to deliver precise amounts of hardwood into a Traeger BBQ grill to be burned in a controlled manner. In fact, when you upgrade to using hardwood pellets, you open your backyard BBQ experience to a whole new world of options that were simply not possible with charcoal or propane.

THE TRAEGER TRUTH

Up until now, you have been given only two choices for grilling: propane and charcoal. Finally, technology has caught up and a healthier, safer and tastier alternative has arrived: Traeger Wood Pellet Grills.


PROPANE

They use this stuff to fuel blow torches or to run a fork lift. Do you want that next to your food? People say it’s easy to use. Really? Only if you like lugging around a highly dangerous and flammable tank in your car, not to mention store it just steps away from your family. Is that your idea of easy?

CHARCOAL

How about that dirty black mess of a choice, charcoal? Wikipedia describes charcoal with words like “black residue … animal, and vegetation compound.” Canada law requires charcoal briquettes to be labeled under the Hazardous Products Act. We don’t know what that means, but it scares us and it’s not something we will let seep into our food. Consumer Reports says, cooking directly over a high temperature flame is responsible for turning healthy foods into carcinogens. We looked it up, it’s not good.

TRAEGER WOOD PELLET GRILLS

Before Traeger Wood Pellet Grills, you just couldn’t cook with wood unless you wanted to dig up your backyard, a National Forest, build a pit, cut down the trees, chop the wood, and make the fire ... that sounds like a lot of work. At Traeger, we make it simple. We have eight flavors of wood pellets that provide great taste to every dish.

The amazing taste the pellets provide is just one of the many benefits, there are no artificial binders and they are EPA recommended. You can't say that about the other grilling options. Additionally, Traeger cares about our environment. All Traeger Wood Pellet Grills provide a zero carbon footprint and are made from 100% natural material. That means nothing harmful is cooking your food. That’s something we think is important.

As far as cost, wood pellets win there as well. Propane costs twice as much per BTU as natural wood pellets, and as far as charcoal is concerned, are there really any benefits? Why would you cook with anything else?

Stop grilling, start TRAEGER'ing!