Camp Chef XXL vertical pellet smoker

hey guys just wanted to do a quick video on this camp chef xxl vertical smoker uh did a lot of research on this smoker on smokers in general and uh i decided to go with this one and i didn't really see a whole lot online as far as reviews and videos so i figured i'd uh do a quick video for you so this is my old smoker this is a 30 inch master built electric smoker it was a really good smoker it works great the only problem is it's just not big enough so i needed something bigger okay so it was be pretty much i narrowed it down between this camp chef and the pit boss i really liked the pit boss they had a really big hopper in the back you know it was very large went up to 450 degrees which is really nice but i ultimately decided to go with this one because mainly because of the controller i really like this wi-fi controller this is the gen 2 so they came out with this one and it was uh the first generation which was just a dial that had temperatures on it went all the way around this one's the gen 2 this one's the wi-fi works really good comes with two probes and then there's little slots to put your probes through the side so you don't have to open up your door or uh crease them you know in in between the door and the frame and it works great you like see if you gotta run to if you gotta run to the store if you gotta take the kids to school or if you're just sitting in the house watching the game you can have it all on your phone you have the probe temps on your phone you have uh the smoke settings you can change your smoke settings their settings from 1 to 10 depending on how much smoke you want and then you can change your temperatures it goes from 150 to 350 degrees uh so you can see the the size of the grates it's a it's a pretty big smoker i really like it use it quite a few times um i stuck a little stuck a little magnet right there just because i was finding that when i was trying to load it and unload it sometimes the wind would blow the door closed on me so just a little something there to hold it on comes with three jerky racks comes with four regular racks and then it comes with the the sausage hanger so you can make summer sausage and stuff like that in it um it's a it's a really nice little smoker here's your grease tray so your grease drips onto there and then it goes down into this trap off to the side and then you have your bucket right there so inside here there's your your hopper if i can get the focus here so there's your hopper and then on the side here you lift that little tab up and you pull that out and then that opens up [Music] that kind of inside there drop your ashes into this little cup on the bottom so pretty slick little setup the hopper i believe it holds 15 pounds of pellets so it comes with this little this little rake to clean all this stuff up inside there but i know this little safety grate here this honeycomb thing a lot of guys take that out they don't like that in there so another neat thing on this smoker is that back here there's a chute so you pull this handle lift this up just like the other side pull that handle and it'll dump your pellets out of there so if you wanted to change out your pellets to a different flavor you can do that so a couple things i'd like to to point out which i thought was pretty cool on this one um the way the smoke system works when it makes smoke in there it goes up to this like dome shaped top and then the smoke has to travel down i don't know if you guys can see that or not to this piece right in here and then this is like a chimney that goes up and then that's your smoke exit out here so that'd be fully open and that's fully closed so it always stays open a little bit but what happens is it it forces the air and the smoke up and around and it rotates around inside and then it works its way back out so it gives you really good smoke penetration it's really nice and i did get a cover for it even though it stays in my garage but keep it clean and keep the dust off of it and it also has a blanket now i know all camp chefs offer blankets for their pellet grills and everything um the the blanket is expensive i think i got it for like 150. um i put it on it's very heavy duty it's um it's really it's really heavy duty it's really nice but i found that so far the like unless it's super cold out it's just too hot for the smoker the smoker doesn't like it it it runs the temperature super high i'll have it set at 225 and the temperatures will be over 350. it just the smoker just doesn't like it you know this because there's no insulation in here it's just sheet metal if you guys can see that or not but there's no it's not an insulated box um i took the take the blanket off and it works awesome holds temperature is great um the higher your smoke setting is uh the more swing you're gonna get and your temperatures so if you have it set at one smoke level one it it'll hold temperature i mean pretty steady it's pretty it's pretty accurate if you um if you have the smoke setting at 10 you're gonna get you know you're going to get about 10 degrees swing um because it has to do that to uh you know to to create the smoke so it's got a it's got to heat it up and then then bring the temperature down so it it uh you know creates the smoke but i really like it so this is the xxl vertical smoker so all together i ended up getting everything for that was about about 800 bucks so the smoker was 600. the um i bought it from a local fireplace fireplace and barbecue store and uh sorry about the helicopter noise i live by a military base um so the smoker was 600 bucks the blanket i think it was 150 and then 50 bucks for the cover so about 800 bucks total for everything one thing that i think it could be improved on is i would do a little bit bigger wheels on it maybe a little bit beefier uh legs you know it works good uh it does roll around on smooth surfaces but if you have like you know a lip on your garage or whatever um you would probably have to lift it off of there it's not really uh you know the biggest wheels and the most sturdiest legs but it does work i'm not having much of an issue so uh anyways uh thanks for watching and i hope you guys have a good day

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Length: 9min 5sec (545 seconds)

Published: Sat Nov 07 2020