For my first cook on my Austin XL, I did burgers and crab stuffed mushrooms, both turned out good. There is definitely a learning curve with it, where to place the food, when to use the flame broiler etc. here's the finished product:
Mushrooms were good, not as gooey as I'd like them to be. Next time I think I'll add some Mozzarella cheese to the mixture to help with that. Also for the burgers I think I'm going to flame broil them as soon as I put them on the grill and once both sides get a kiss of fire, move them to the sides so them dont burn.
Start up:
I'll admit being new to the pellet grill thing, its kind of intimidating how much it smokes upon start up but its funny as soon as it catches flame.. the smoke just rushes out of there and starts burning cleaner.
Like I said I think I'll add some mozzarella cheese to help with the gooey-ness
on the Austin XL they go:
Then burgers:
As you can see with 1,000 sq. ins of cooking space there is plenty of space for food. I'd say you could easily fit 3 dozen burgers plus the top rack for dogs or brats too!
I got a Boston butt and baby-back slab thawing for Saturday to do my first actual smoke with it. I'm using some of the PP from the butt to do some tacos for New years. but I'd give it a thumbs ups
for the grilling part of it, just need to learn the best route of doing some foods... I'm excited to try the flame broiler with a steak or even a steak out of my sous-vide.
I'll probably be posting another thread for my first smoke with the Austin XL on Saturday and I was thinking if anyone is truly interested in maybe getting one of these, I would be willing to do a "full" review Thread on it if needed/ wanted. I will say for the price, you can't beat the value. I'd imagine to get a Traeger of similar size, you would have to pay upward of $1,500( not dis-ing on Traeger) but you do get what you pay for and since its cheaper, it is missing some features which you might found disappearing. Example temperature settings between the pre-sets( 250 to 300 to 350 to 400 to 450). Personally me I couldn't be happier and can't wait to cook on it again!
Mushrooms were good, not as gooey as I'd like them to be. Next time I think I'll add some Mozzarella cheese to the mixture to help with that. Also for the burgers I think I'm going to flame broil them as soon as I put them on the grill and once both sides get a kiss of fire, move them to the sides so them dont burn.
Start up:
I'll admit being new to the pellet grill thing, its kind of intimidating how much it smokes upon start up but its funny as soon as it catches flame.. the smoke just rushes out of there and starts burning cleaner.
I thought my phone could catch the flames shooting up through the "flame broiler" slits but it didn't. But the flames shoot up pass the food grates so you gotta be careful not to burn your food.
Making up the crab mushrooms:
Like I said I think I'll add some mozzarella cheese to help with the gooey-ness
on the Austin XL they go:
As you can see with 1,000 sq. ins of cooking space there is plenty of space for food. I'd say you could easily fit 3 dozen burgers plus the top rack for dogs or brats too!
I got a Boston butt and baby-back slab thawing for Saturday to do my first actual smoke with it. I'm using some of the PP from the butt to do some tacos for New years. but I'd give it a thumbs ups
for the grilling part of it, just need to learn the best route of doing some foods... I'm excited to try the flame broiler with a steak or even a steak out of my sous-vide.I'll probably be posting another thread for my first smoke with the Austin XL on Saturday and I was thinking if anyone is truly interested in maybe getting one of these, I would be willing to do a "full" review Thread on it if needed/ wanted. I will say for the price, you can't beat the value. I'd imagine to get a Traeger of similar size, you would have to pay upward of $1,500( not dis-ing on Traeger) but you do get what you pay for and since its cheaper, it is missing some features which you might found disappearing. Example temperature settings between the pre-sets( 250 to 300 to 350 to 400 to 450). Personally me I couldn't be happier and can't wait to cook on it again!
