Clean The Grill

[dkuchenberg]

Good afternoon.
After my last brisket I broke down the grill and cleaned everything, wiped down the grease trap, vacuumed out the fire pit and the inside of the grill. Today when I turned it on it says "clean grill" ?????
I do not know what turns on this warning and I do not know how to reset this. Can anyone shed any light on the subject, or do I need to call Tech Support?

Cheers!

Dan

 

[Slimpicker]

Good afternoon.
After my last brisket I broke down the grill and cleaned everything, wiped down the grease trap, vacuumed out the fire pit and the inside of the grill. Today when I turned it on it says "clean grill" ?????
I do not know what turns on this warning and I do not know how to reset this. Can anyone shed any light on the subject, or do I need to call Tech Support?

Cheers!

Dan

Okay, sorry for laughing... The grill does not know what you do to it aside from TIMING your cooks and giving you messages when it THINKS you've gone long enough to receive that certain message...

In settings, you can CLEAR that notification and it won't show again till you have used your grill long enough

It's all based on amount of TIME your grill ran and it spits these notices out

 

[dkuchenberg]

Okay, sorry for laughing... The grill does not know what you do to it aside from TIMING your cooks and giving you messages when it THINKS you've gone long enough to receive that certain message...

In settings, you can CLEAR that notification and it won't show again till you have used your grill long enough

It's all based on amount of TIME your grill ran and it spits these notices out

That's what I thought but I wasn't sure. Thanks

 

[Slimpicker]

I have the 575 also, just wait till it tells you to clean the fire pot itself...
When you get these just delete them. However, I bought a 2nd firepot and I'm close to replacing it at 18 months now... it has big flakes of rust coming off it ever vacuum. I took mine out at the 1 year mark and cleaned it and oiled it, but it looks bad again. They are so cheap I just went ahead and bought one to get ready... NOW???

what the hell did I do with that damn thing?

 

[GrillMeister]

Actually, it's one of Traeger's tiny nagging Darwin Award Candidate lawyers doing the CYA for Traeger in case you never clean it out and it catches fire from all the accumulated grease and burns down your deck.

Then again, I have a neighbor who bought one and called a couple months later to ask why he can't get above 200 degrees. I asked him if he cleaned it out. The blank stare said it all. Needless to say, he now cleans it out regularly after 3 cooks and he's getting temps too. Go figure.

 

[Wayne55]

When I cleaned my 780 out for the first time, I noticed that there were pellets in the firebox. I'm assuming in preparation for the next ignite. Do y'all put some back after cleaning, or just do an auger prime?

 

[Murphy's Law]

When I cleaned my 780 out for the first time, I noticed that there were pellets in the firebox. I'm assuming in preparation for the next ignite. Do y'all put some back after cleaning, or just do an auger prime?

After I vacuum the fire box I will add a small handful of pellets but not sure you really need to. The auger will rotate and drop pellets on the next start up.

 

[Wayne55]

I understand that. I was thinking that if one were to put pellets back in the firebox, it wouldn't take as long to start the next time.

 

[dkuchenberg]

When I cleaned my 780 out for the first time, I noticed that there were pellets in the firebox. I'm assuming in preparation for the next ignite. Do y'all put some back after cleaning, or just do an auger prime?

I use auger prime, especially if I change pellet types.

 

[Slimpicker]

Check your chimneys if you have one!!!
This is the 2nd time in 18 months I've scrapped mine clean of serious buildup.
Under the cap too.

 

[Wayne55]

I don't know, I think I'd call in a professional!

 

[dkuchenberg]

Check your chimneys if you have one!!!
This is the 2nd time in 18 months I've scrapped mine clean of serious buildup.
Under the cap too.

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That is pretty nasty. Thanks for the information.

 

[dkuchenberg]

I don't know, I think I'd call in a professional!

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LOL

 

[MorllEySwenseL]

Hello everyone, thanks for the tips