Camp Chef SmokePro Pellet Smoker/Grill 2 Year Review. Can it Grill Burgers?

Happy July Fourth! I mention in the video that I posted my first video on this pellet smoker on July 4th 2016, but that was on my other channel https://youtu.be/jEljvuxlCqs and to this day that remains my most watched video! With the popularity of that vid I was encouraged to create this channel, as that one is mostly dedicated to pipe smoking.

The one question that I asked that I failed to answer is can you grill on this pellet smoker? In my opinion, not foods that cook quickly like burgers. Yes, the burgers cooked just fine and were juicy and tasty, but I like a burger with a nice char, so that's why I have the optional sear box on my smoker. But seeing that burgers cook so quickly I prefer to either smoke them low and slow on this pellet smoker followed by searing on the sear box, or grilled over charcoal on my grill. I fully expect that I'll get comments saying the brand X or Y can grill, and I'm open to testing them out, but if they only get to 400 degrees they aren't hot enough for the way I like my burgers cooked, which is over 600-degree charcoal.

 

Where have all the Pellets gone? Happy July 4th!

Checking in as I prep for the Fourth of July and search in vain for hardwood cooking pellets. I know that this week is the perfect week to stock up on charcoal and other grilling and smoking commodities, and it looks like someone else had the same idea!

So which wood pellet do you and your family prefer and for which meats?

Take & Bake pizza cooked on a Camp Chef Pellet Smoker

I still struggle with whether the Camp Chef SmokePro is a smoker or a grill, but today what I do know for sure is that it makes a fine pizza oven.

Actually, at these temps there is very little smoke, but we'll get enough of the smoke taste to make it worth the while.

We started with two Papa Murphy's Take & Bake pizzas, which were purchased a day in advance. Personally, I like a little bit of a yeasty taste and on the day that they make them they just don't have quite enough "funk" for my taste. By popular demand of the grandkids, we purchased one large cheese and one large pepperoni pizza.  These are 14" pizzas that can feed 3 people each. The "Family" size pizza is 16", and while I was tempted to go along with the "IF some is good. more is better" crowd I opted for the oxymoronic smaller "large".

From there several things conspired against me: It was cool and windy, I forgot to preheat the MASSIVE "pizza stone" and I didn't pull the pizzas out of the fridge soon enough.

Because of the cold air and the high winds, I whipped out my Harbor Freight fiberglass welding blanket: Chicago Welding, Item # 67833. It is amazing that it was touching a grill that was boarding on 400 degrees and yet it was only warm to the touch as I removed it each time. That is until the one time that I grabbed it by one of the steel grommets. Perhaps one day that moment will make it into a blooper reel!

An EPIC Fail and a Win, but enough talk, let's smoke a pizza!