Whether you're a barbecue novice or a professional pitmaster, cooking with the right grill can mean the difference between failure and success. With the Traeger Ironwood 650 ($1,199.99), you never have to worry about things like flare-ups, uneven cooking temperatures, or constantly feeding wood into a smoker. Fueled by real hardwood pellets, the Wi-Fi-enabled Ironwood 650 can be used for barbecuing, roasting, and smoking, and it's easy to use. It doesn't offer all of the features of its bigger sibling, the $2,000 Timberline 1300, but it's more affordable and still delivers outstanding food, earning our Editors' Choice. Design and Features First introduced by Traeger back in the '80s, pellet grills burn compressed wood pellets instead of charcoal or propane gas. With Traeger grills, the one-inch pellets are fed into a firepot using an auger drive mechanism and are ignited by a hot rod. The grill's software controls the auger and a convection fan in order to maintain a steady cooki...
The Traeger Ironwood 650 is a wood pellet grill equipped with Wi-Fi and variable speed convection fans, making it easy to barbecue, roast, and smoke like a pro.
Cooks delicious wood-fired foods; User-friendly controls and mobile app; Sturdy build
Expensive; Requires two people to assemble