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Did ribs today. Rub, left the house for six hours while the ribs were at 225, sauce, wait 1/2hr, bring them in and eat.

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Since you're in Farmington at a similar altitude to me here on the east side of denver, I thought I'd add some of my experience.

Most of the recipes I find online and try seem to be a little hot or a little too long time-wise. I think it's the altitude that does it. I've jut learned to lower the temp on my rectec 25-50 degrees or shorten the time a bit. Internal temps are internal temps, so those don't change, but on a long smoke, pork shoulder or ribs) I find if I follow most of the online guidance, I end up over cooked.
 
Gots_a_sol said:
Got some briskets going. Seems I/the Internet misjudged how long they would take as they are just about done already. Oops.

They are both 5 lbs and I'm right at 6 hours. Was estimating be ready 1 ish, not 11 am :laughing:

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Brisket brunch tacos it is:flipoff2:
 
Planning on smoking a tritip this afternoon for supper.
I like the bear mountain and Kingsford pellets. If I can't find them I will get the green mountain pellets. I liked the recteq pellets, but I'm not going to order online every time I need pellets.
The not "real bbq" statement is stupid. You are cooking over fire outside, that's bbqing.
The recteq an extra smoke button, but I have only used it a time or two. I like a nice smoke ring and a hint of smokey flavor. Don't want to eat something where smoke is all you can taste and it overpowers the rub.
 
Good timing, during the annual "Put your shit on the curb cleanup day, where the poors take your stuff" I got a pit boss vertical smoker.
I had to buy an auger for it and it's working great again.
The smoker is ok, WAY TOO BIG, I need to trade it down for something smaller.
 
welndmn said:
Good timing, during the annual "Put your shit on the curb cleanup day, where the poors take your stuff" I got a pit boss vertical smoker.
I had to buy an auger for it and it's working great again.
The smoker is ok, WAY TOO BIG, I need to trade it down for something smaller.
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Wrap that fucker in a welding blanket, surrounded by a moving blanket, surrounded by a tarp. Then it doesn’t matter if it’s too big!

Maybe do some test burns after your modifications before you figure out if it’s safe to run unattended.
 
I used one for the first time last night to make some ribs at work. I was pretty impressed with how easy it was. I guess I’m in the market for one. Is there made in USA option other than Yoder?
 
Gots_a_sol said:
Got some briskets going. Seems I/the Internet misjudged how long they would take as they are just about done already. Oops.

They are both 5 lbs and I'm right at 6 hours. Was estimating be ready 1 ish, not 11 am :laughing:
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The internet may be geared to bigger briskets. Around here, most briskets are 12-20 pounds, with the 12 pounders I like even being kind of hard to find.
 
Bacho said:
I used one for the first time last night to make some ribs at work. I was pretty impressed with how easy it was. I guess I’m in the market for one. Is there made in USA option other than Yoder?
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Recteq?
 
Bacho said:
I used one for the first time last night to make some ribs at work. I was pretty impressed with how easy it was. I guess I’m in the market for one. Is there made in USA option other than Yoder?
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My pitboss is American made
 
I'm trying to make up my mind...


Pitboss 1150 pro/elite/whatever
Traeger 750 sized unit
Rec-tec 700 sized unit


All 3 have wifi, come with probes, will need a cover, hold 30ish lbs of pellets, and have a 180-~700 ° temp range.

Any one of them longer lasting or otherwise better between the three?
 
The metal is much heavier gauge on my RecTec than any of the Traegers I've looked at. The Traeger feels cheap in comparison.
That's all I got.
 
My recteq is 6 or 7 years old now and still doing well. I updated it to a ceramic igniter, but it has done really well. Only drawbacks are it isn't happy trying to grill below 20 degrees. And some of the bait on the lower body has pealed off. No rust on the metal, just paint came off.
Most bbqs are lucky to last 5 years these days. Mine lives outside with no cover in full sun. They have really good warranty and service. Mine is the 700 I like the pellet hopper in the back as opposed to on the side holds about 40lbs of pellets.
 
Pt_Ranger_v8 said:
I'm trying to make up my mind...


Pitboss 1150 pro/elite/whatever
Traeger 750 sized unit
Rec-tec 700 sized unit


All 3 have wifi, come with probes, will need a cover, hold 30ish lbs of pellets, and have a 180-~700 ° temp range.

Any one of them longer lasting or otherwise better between the three?
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I’d be tempted to pick whichever one has the shortest auger. When I had a Traeger years and years ago, I always had auger troubles. I swore my next one would have a much shorter pellet auger. Does the Recteq still have the auger going from the back, making it very short?

And the PitBoss one that I was always interested in was one of the vertical ones. Seems like a better orientation for a smoker, but I’ve never had one.
 
Pt_Ranger_v8 said:
I'm trying to make up my mind...


Pitboss 1150 pro/elite/whatever
Traeger 750 sized unit
Rec-tec 700 sized unit


All 3 have wifi, come with probes, will need a cover, hold 30ish lbs of pellets, and have a 180-~700 ° temp range.

Any one of them longer lasting or otherwise better between the three?
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RecTec’s customer service and 6 year warranty is killer.

They’re a local company. Buddy of mine came to visit last Saturday and I took him over to check them out. He’s seen my BFG, but was impressed with the build quality of the other models. Said they’re nicer than the Traeger or Pit Boss you see at the box stores.

He’s getting a RecTec
 
Oh yeah, about RecTec customer service..

The first time I used my new RecTec was a Saturday. It wasn't holding temp exactly so I called them. Of course, no answer so I left a message and got a call back from the owner! He walked me through adjusting the auger speed and sent me some swag for the trouble. :smokin:
 
I bought a traeger on clearance because it was cheap. Wanted rectec but for 200 what could go wrong...

Took 4 month to get it cooking right, tons of headaches. 6 calls to Indian tech support, replaced controller. Finally some dude on reddit told me it was assembled wrong and I had it fixed it 2 minutes.

Rectec will be the next one.
 
I'm not expert but I've seen a big difference in quality between the good/better/best models of the Traegers. So just be sure you're comparing apples to apples. Their lower end stuff does seem shitty but their high end stuff seems really nice. I'm leaning Traeger for one reason, my local Ace Hardware is right down the street, family owned, great people, and they carry pretty much every product Traeger makes. So I have a local resource.
 
The old site steered me to recteq. User happy with it. Go on the recteq Facebook pages and you’ll read a ton of stories about customer service on weekends in the middle of football games. That’s what sold me.
 
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I'm not expert but I've seen a big difference in quality between the good/better/best models of the Traegers. So just be sure you're comparing apples to apples. Their lower end stuff does seem shitty but their high end stuff seems really nice. I'm leaning Traeger for one reason, my local Ace Hardware is right down the street, family owned, great people, and they carry pretty much every product Traeger makes. So I have a local resource.
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None of that matters. Their support is all based overseas, yet they stand in their "American company" bs. Ain't made here, support can't speak English. That's enough to be off any future list
 
So I'm in potrero, costa Rica this week. At the local beach bar there is a Georgia license plate from Columbia county (Augusta) "REC TEQ"

I'm guessing someone from the company has been here. Great little small village. Can walk almost anywhere, good food, nice beach

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Just finished putting my rec-teq rt700 together and finished the initial burn in sequence...

Overall, I'm pretty impressed with build quality and material strength.

BUT!!!

I get to test the customer service out tomorrow.... Installed the horn handles, and realized I left the 'heat isolating' gaskets off. Then promptly stripped 3/4 stainless m6 bolts holding the handles on :homer:


I knew I shouldn't have let my hamfisted buddy take them off. I knew they would gall on install :homer:

Drilled them out, and 2/3 drilled out fine (except the part of the bolts that's inside the handle :lmao:. The final one though, I must've put a little extra oomph, because the captive nut is spinning in the cage, and I can't get to it to tack it together. So, I'm going to see if they will send me new handles. if not, I'll drill and tap the handles for 1/4-20 or m6 bolts and re-install.

Standby for updates.
 
Pt_Ranger_v8 said:
Just finished putting my rec-teq rt700 together and finished the initial burn in sequence...

Overall, I'm pretty impressed with build quality and material strength.

BUT!!!

I get to test the customer service out tomorrow.... Installed the horn handles, and realized I left the 'heat isolating' gaskets off. Then promptly stripped 3/4 stainless m6 bolts holding the handles on :homer:


I knew I shouldn't have let my hamfisted buddy take them off. I knew they would gall on install :homer:

Drilled them out, and 2/3 drilled out fine (except the part of the bolts that's inside the handle :lmao:. The final one though, I must've put a little extra oomph, because the captive nut is spinning in the cage, and I can't get to it to tack it together. So, I'm going to see if they will send me new handles. if not, I'll drill and tap the handles for 1/4-20 or m6 bolts and re-install.

Standby for updates.
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They’ll take care of you.
 
Rectec has big “parties” on the weekend in their parking lot. They have a movie screen set up and stuff for the kids and then have a bunch of their grills set up smoking various things for adults. Genius in my opinion. I just picked up a Bullseye so I don’t have to drag the 700 out for small stuff like burgers and love it. I encourage anybody to give them strong consideration over other brands.
 
Bacho said:
I used one for the first time last night to make some ribs at work. I was pretty impressed with how easy it was. I guess I’m in the market for one. Is there made in USA option other than Yoder?
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