Traeger for grilling?

[jc03]

Hello. For Christmas I’m thinking about getting my Dad a Traeger. My concern is he’s more of a griller than a smoker. He bbqs a lot of chicken, steak and burgers. Would he traeger still serve the purpose?

 

[browneyesvictim]

In short, yes. But so would a gas grill. In my opinion a kettle is a better choice for flavor (using charcoal) but is not as convenient as gas or pellet grill. tradeoffs....

 

[PerazziMx14]

Please remove

 

[motocrash]

Traeger Grills -Traeger is a grill.

 

[ross77]

I use my pellet grill for grilling all the time. Haven't touched my Weber gasser for over a year. I would recommend getting him GrillGrates along with the Traeger.

 

[Flying Clay Disk]

We grill on our Traeger all the time. It does an excellent job! It has all but retired all the other grills. I never would have dreamt I'd park my old Weber kettle charcoal grill, but I pretty much have since getting the wife the Traeger she wanted.

It hasn't replaced the dedicated smoker(s) yet though. It does a fairly good job smoking, but for the real 'finesse' smoking I still think a dedicated smoker works better, at least on delicate stuff. Big stuff, the Traeger does fine.