Cooking with Wood

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.