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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Louisiana Grills are one of the first pellet smoker companies. Their Colonial Barbecue Grills are pellet smokers mounted on carts and resemble gas grills with doors and cabinet enclosures. Here we review the Louisiana Grills Greenwood pellet smoker.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Louisiana Grills Colonial Barbecue Grills are pellet smokers mounted on carts offered in two styles. They resemble gas grills on carts with cabinet enclosures. Read our review of the Louisiana Grills Colonial Savannah here.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We reviewed this over size pellet smoker and awarded our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal. The Louisiana Grills Country Smokers Super Hog is an extra-large pellet smoker, basically two smokers joined together with two independent fire pots and two dedicated hoppers. Remove the middle partition and free up all 2400 square inches of cook surface to smoke a whole hog.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We give this pellet smoker our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal. The Louisiana Grills Country Smokers Whole Hog Pellet Smoker is an extra-large pellet smoker, basically two smokers joined together with two independent fire pots and two dedicated hoppers. Remove the middle partition and free up all 1750 square inches of cook surface to smoke a whole hog.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We give this pellet smoker our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal. The Louisiana Grills Country Smokers CS-680 is one of Louisiana Grill's large smokers. The controller toggles between set temp and meat probe temp. Set it and forget it, the thermostat will maintain cooking temperature just like your indoor kitchen stove.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We give this pellet smoker our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal. The Louisiana Grills Country Smokers CS-570 is one of Louisiana Grill's mid-size smokers. The controller toggles between set temp and meat probe temp. Set it and forget it, the thermostat will maintain cooking temperature just like your indoor kitchen stove.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
We tested and reviewed this pellet smoker and award it our AmazingRibs.com Best Value Silver Medal. The Louisiana Grills Country Smokers CS-450 is one of Louisiana Grill's smaller smokers. The controller toggles between set temp and meat probe temp. Set it and forget it, the thermostat will maintain cooking temperature just like your indoor kitchen stove.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
TG-300 is the smallest smoker in Louisiana Grill's Country Smokers line. The tabletop body has short legs and no wheels. At 26.5" H x 36.5" W x 19.5" D weighing 94 pounds it is big enough to smoke a turkey and small enough to transport in a truck or van. Our AmazingRibs.com Silver Medal goes to this tailgater.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The XL is Traeger's largest residential pellet smokers. With 836 square inches of primary cook surface it can cook 24 chickens or 16 slabs of ribs. This big boy has a large pellet hopper in front, two chimneys and two drip buckets. We give this one our AmazingRibs.com Silver Medal.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Traeger is the most popular pellet smoker in the USA. Read our review of the Traeger Select Pellet Smoker review here.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Texas Grill is a large model in Traeger's line of residential pellet smokers. Although it has an upgraded digital controller, it is still an older style notched dial control like those made by Ortech. Not as good as a touch pad, but not bad. We give this one our AmazingRibs.com Silver Medal.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
The Traeger Lil' Pig Pellet Smoker is a novelty smoker that consists of Traeger's Lil' Tex Elite dressed up to look like a pink pig. On the upside it has a digital controller and an eye catching appearance that Traeger believes is sure to make your guests "squeal". BUT it weighs and costs twice as much as an Elite.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
Traeger Lil' Tex Elite Pellet Smoker is a mid-size pellet smoker featuring digital thermostatic control. Thermostatically controlled pellet smokers can be more accurate than your kitchen range and let you load up your smoker at 11 pm, then go to bed and sleep soundly. Our AmazingRibs.com Silver Medal goes to this model.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
In the past this popular cooker served as a great starter for people interested in pellet cooking. Alas, because there is no thermostatic control, it will not always cook at the same temp because it will not respond to ambient air temp. We don't recommend the Traeger Lil' Tex Pellet Smoker model.
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Max Good, AmazingRibs.com’s Full-Time Grill Tester
As the name indicates, Traeger Junior is a smallish pellet smoker. Unfortunately it has no thermostatic control, so temperature is inaccurate because it will not respond to ambient air temp. We don't recommend this model.
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