Weber vs Traeger
Money, Marketing, and Patents: Fighting for control of Barbecue On July 5th, 2021, the day after barbecue’s biggest day, pellet
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Traeger Über Alles
Does Traeger have a path to global domination? The pellet grill market isn’t just competitive; it can be downright ruthless.
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Ban the Bristle
On August 11th, 2011, a 50-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with severe abdominal pain. A CT scan found
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Pellet versus Kamado
Every time I read the marketing materials on a brand of a kamado grill, it boasts the same story of
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The Pellet Grill Expectation Gap
My neighbor doesn’t clean his pellet grill. It’s a little Traeger that he has owned for several years. About 40
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Will Success Ruin Traeger?
Love or hate Traeger, you have to admit they have changed outdoor cooking forever. Certainly, many people make fun of
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Why We Grill
Will New York Food Writers Please Shut Up About Outdoor Cooking August in New York is miserable. The combination of
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The Death of the Holland Grill
Somewhere in the mid-1970s, Brad Holland became frustrated with his gas grill. It flared up. It burnt his food. And
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Let’s End BBQ Season
By Derrick Riches Updated: July 1, 2019 Turn Barbecue and Grilling into a Year-Round Industry Not everything needs to have
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The Pellet Grill Arms Race
By Derrick Riches Updated: October 21, 2019 For over 20 years, people have been telling me that the pellet grill
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The Cookout Tariffs
The outdoor cooking industry is unique in many ways. A handful of companies and even fewer retailers control the majority
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What Consumer Reports Got Wrong about Grills, 2019
Let me start by saying that not only do I respect Consumer Reports. I strongly support what they do as
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Can Kamado Joe save Big Green Egg?
The Kamado grill was not invented by Big Green Egg nor is it a 2,000 year old piece of Japanese
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Weber Reintroduces the Genesis Gas Grill, Again
In 2017, Weber announced, with great fanfare, a complete redesign of their flagship Genesis Gas Grill line. Not only did
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