Sealing the Traeger / Grease drip opening.

[HotSpringsBBQ]

Hello, during my last long smoke I really noticed so much heat and smoke coming out the grease drip opening as well as my lid. Does anyone have recommendations on how to seal the Traeger lid on top better. Also, has anyone experimented with reducing the grease drip opening, its quite large for only needing to drip the grease. I see a lot of smoke and heat leave that opening when the blower is on. Thank you.

 

[Slimpicker]

Search "seal" in the upper right... probably 5 threads about it...

I got no input on the grease opening... I see smoke out of mine all the time... an open "flow" of heat and air will probably help the grease to flow out rather than harden in the pit and start a grease fire... I'm not gonna experiment with mine (at least not be the first one to)

 

[traeger860]

LavaLock for the lid

 

[davwhite]

Hello, during my last long smoke I really noticed so much heat and smoke coming out the grease drip opening as well as my lid. Does anyone have recommendations on how to seal the Traeger lid on top better. Also, has anyone experimented with reducing the grease drip opening, its quite large for only needing to drip the grease. I see a lot of smoke and heat leave that opening when the blower is on. Thank you.

I wouldn't touch the stack. When Yoder came out with a stack with no 'hat' people fiddled with all sorts of options to go over it. Then the complaints came in that it wasn't cooking properly. Take the covers off because you are messing with the air flow was the answer.

 

[miguelb]

LavaLock for the lid

I second this. One of the first thing I did after setting up the grill. Make sure you do the property placement so you don't inadvertently impact the closing of the lid.