Toddramey63
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I was gifted the base model Woodridge in August and have used it for most part everweek. (It's Now the week before Thanksgiving)
Friday night I put on two-3lb briskets at 11pm. Overnight air temp was in the low 30s here in the part of Idaho I live in.
The last 5 years I using my Pitboss, I grilled and smoked all winter in lower temps, had no problems.
Prewarmed 15 min, Set temperature to 225, plugged in two wireless temp probes( thermomave) which were set to ring when internal temp got to 165, so I could pull n wrap.
Went inside and settled down with a couple of John Wayne movies , and every h a half hour to an hour would look at probe monitor.
The 5th hour in, I noticed the ambient air temp wasn't getting very warm. Fan, auger were running fine. Display temp was showing 225. Internal was 145ish , ambient maybe 125.
At 8 hrs internal was still at 145 and ambeiant wasn't rising.
Then the cook stalled.
@ 10hrs it was still showing internal at 145. Ambient was 125 , display on grill still saying 225.
12 hrs in, no change.
I then pulled the meat, finished in the oven.
Flavor was good. Had an awesome smoke ring. Meat was mostly moist.
I vacum out the burn box after every cook. And Pellets are emptied out into sealed bucket. Ive used Pitboss pellets from the first cook 5 years ago with my pitboss.
I can't justify the higher priced pellets such as bear Mtn and traeger.
I haven't talked to Traeger yet. I wanted to get some opinions here first.
Friday night I put on two-3lb briskets at 11pm. Overnight air temp was in the low 30s here in the part of Idaho I live in.
The last 5 years I using my Pitboss, I grilled and smoked all winter in lower temps, had no problems.
Prewarmed 15 min, Set temperature to 225, plugged in two wireless temp probes( thermomave) which were set to ring when internal temp got to 165, so I could pull n wrap.
Went inside and settled down with a couple of John Wayne movies , and every h a half hour to an hour would look at probe monitor.
The 5th hour in, I noticed the ambient air temp wasn't getting very warm. Fan, auger were running fine. Display temp was showing 225. Internal was 145ish , ambient maybe 125.
At 8 hrs internal was still at 145 and ambeiant wasn't rising.
Then the cook stalled.
@ 10hrs it was still showing internal at 145. Ambient was 125 , display on grill still saying 225.
12 hrs in, no change.
I then pulled the meat, finished in the oven.
Flavor was good. Had an awesome smoke ring. Meat was mostly moist.
I vacum out the burn box after every cook. And Pellets are emptied out into sealed bucket. Ive used Pitboss pellets from the first cook 5 years ago with my pitboss.
I can't justify the higher priced pellets such as bear Mtn and traeger.
I haven't talked to Traeger yet. I wanted to get some opinions here first.
) the logic is that the windchill convection effect causes heat loss by blowing away the thin layer of warm air buffering the outer surface of the Traeger (same applies to windchill and the human body) meaning it has to work harder to reach the desired ambient temperature if indeed it can.
