dleewoods
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- Missouri City, TX
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- Silverton 810
The problem I see seems to be systemic to Silvertons.
I understand temp varies under the hood. The first probe I placed right next to the grill's RTD and get a steady difference of 35 degrees lower. I think that if the grill says it's cooking at 225 degrees, the RTD is reading 225 degrees, then it should be cooking at 225 within reason, not 190 with +/- 20 degree swings. I do cook to the internal temp and the fact that recipes take extraordinarily longer than expected tells me that this grill is not performing as designed. the other probes shown are further away from the RTD; 275 was the center, 280 was the far side. Still nothing is close to 300.
Trager has never said they account for variations across the cooking surface and therefore there would a offset. In fact they "test" at ambient temperature, if the RTD matches the weather forecast, then all systems are a go.
Could I do the math? Sure. Could I adjust the Traeger manually based on external temp sensors? Sure. But I shelled out $1500 on a grill that monitors and maintains its temperature without the addition of a $20 3rd party sensor to monitor actual cooking temp. Plus the "super smoke" feature turns off above 225degrees. So if I want to smoke at 225 as the recipe indicates, i need to set the grill at 260 with no super smoke OR set it to 225degrees, cook at 190degrees with super smoke.
Actually, if you placed a 3rd party probe as close to your IW grill's RTD as possible, do you get a consistent reading? Or a 35 degree delta? Honestly curious.
And i did check my probes in ice water and boiling water, they check out.
I understand temp varies under the hood. The first probe I placed right next to the grill's RTD and get a steady difference of 35 degrees lower. I think that if the grill says it's cooking at 225 degrees, the RTD is reading 225 degrees, then it should be cooking at 225 within reason, not 190 with +/- 20 degree swings. I do cook to the internal temp and the fact that recipes take extraordinarily longer than expected tells me that this grill is not performing as designed. the other probes shown are further away from the RTD; 275 was the center, 280 was the far side. Still nothing is close to 300.
Trager has never said they account for variations across the cooking surface and therefore there would a offset. In fact they "test" at ambient temperature, if the RTD matches the weather forecast, then all systems are a go.
Could I do the math? Sure. Could I adjust the Traeger manually based on external temp sensors? Sure. But I shelled out $1500 on a grill that monitors and maintains its temperature without the addition of a $20 3rd party sensor to monitor actual cooking temp. Plus the "super smoke" feature turns off above 225degrees. So if I want to smoke at 225 as the recipe indicates, i need to set the grill at 260 with no super smoke OR set it to 225degrees, cook at 190degrees with super smoke.
Actually, if you placed a 3rd party probe as close to your IW grill's RTD as possible, do you get a consistent reading? Or a 35 degree delta? Honestly curious.
And i did check my probes in ice water and boiling water, they check out.
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