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does anyone have experience using a Country Smokers Wood Pellet Grill and Smoker ===> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07VN ... 0DER&psc=1 .... I've never used a pellet grill but have heard good things about them .... this size grill lends itself to traveling

That's a nice looking grill. If you choose to purchase one let is know how it works.

no plan to purchase another grill any time soon but its only a matter of time before our Holland Companion grill needing to be replaced .... with them out of business, that ain't gonna be an option .... my biggest concern is the pellet box reducing the cooking surface of an already small grill

well, as noted in the opening post in this thread, I had no plan to purchase another grill any time soon my grill of choice for the last 19 years has been a Holland Companion .... it is without any doubt the best brand of grill I've ever owned, in addition to the company going out of business, it does have a very disconcerting weakness .... that being it can be difficult (if not impossible) to use in windy conditions .... over the years I've come up with wind blocks that can be effective but on many windy days I no longer make an effort to use it .... for a good while now I've been considering alternatives and based in no small part to this thread, I have finally made the decision to order a Country Smokers Wood Pellet Grill and Smoker .... as this is being typed, we are in Texas and plan to head home day after tomorrow .... the day after we are scheduled to get back home, Amazon is scheduled to deliver it .... I'm most certainly looking forward to learning how to use it

as a side note, our travel grills spend most of their life sitting outside, exposed to the elements .... Holland Companion grills are made from stainless steel and do as good of a job as any in standing up to weathering .... the Pellet Grill we have on order is coated with something to help protect it .... in reading use comments on Amazon, a few mentioned a SHINESTAR CG306 Grill Cover fits and works well .... we have one on order

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07T5 ... UTF8&psc=1

steady rain every since we unpacked and assembled our Country Smoker Grill so we haven't used it yet .... I have done considerable reading and do have hands-on experience that has given me a better understanding of how this grill works .... the pictures below what they call the "Flame Boiler Plate" in both is closed and open positions .... first picture, closed for grilling/smoking with indirect heat (same principal as a Holland Grill) .... second picture, open for direct heat (the pan where the pellets burn can be seen through the slits) .... over time I experimented with numerous regulators on our Holland .... while flame ups are rare to non existent with the OEM regulator .... I know for a fact that a flame up can and will happen with regulators that drastically increase the cooking temperature .... I suspect that the same will be true for the Country Smoker .... the Boiler Plate slants downward to the right allowing grease to flow into the "Grease Tray" .... I believe that at smoking temps the closed Boiler Plate will prevent flame ups .... with the Boiler Plate open grease can drop directly onto the burning pellets and the possibility of a flame up is most certainly possible .... further, the higher the temp setting with it open or closed, the greater the chance

the rain has finally moved on and the sun is actually out .... first smoke shown below .... going through an extended burn-off as this is being typed .... plan to grill some burgers tonight ..

first "Grill Burn Off" completed .... pictures below show the residue (ash) after a hard burn with the temp set to 400 degrees .... the last picture shows ot under its cover .... a few observations ===> our small shop-vac ( https://www.lowes.com/pd/Shop-Vac-2-5-G ... 1000351335 ) made very quick work of the ash, no problem whatsoever .... only oil involved was used in wiping down the cooking grates .... all set to grill some burgers tonight ..

with our former grill I could tell within a minute or two of when whatever was being cooked would be done .... its going to take a good while (if ever) for me to reach anywhere near that level with the Country Smoker .... that said the burgers we grilled tonight really turned out well

Looks good to me!