(man groaning) - Oh mama, Its review day. I'm excited. This is the brand new hot off the press, Traeger Timberline XL. I had to go buy this at a retail store. I couldn't even get my hands on one from the dealer, from Traeger. Paid full price, just
for you guys at home. That way we can get an authentic
review on this, let's roll. (upbeat music) All right, first thing you're
gonna notice is the packaging. So having so many grills
in and out of the showroom for years and years,
just by looking at it, I'm gonna go ahead and deduce
that it's mostly assembled, which is huge. I don't know about you Chris, but I don't like putting
grills together, do you? - No.
- No. Packaging is super cool on it too. I think. Here's the deal, when they
launched this on the 30th, a ton of influencers
posted videos that day. What does that mean? It means that they
collaborated with Traeger, Which doesn't mean it's like a paid advertisement or anything. They're probably free to speak their mind. But what happens is when they do a launch, not just Traeger a lot of brands, when they launch a new product, they'll collaborate with influencers and send them a product
before it launches, let them unbox it, do their review. That way when it launches, they can just flood the market with, with reviews to help
get the name out there It's smart, it's really smart. I unfortunately was not included in that. I'm not a big deal, not to Traeger. That's not a bad thing or anything. I'm just saying, this is, not that those other
reviews aren't authentic and they'll tell you
of they're paid promos. And I'm sure they're great reviews, but this is as authentic as it gets. I paid full price at the
hardware store for this. Oh, that's how you do it. You just flip them out,
I just figured it out. So I kind of feel like
I'm gonna give you guys as an authentic review as possible. And this is the reason why
I probably wasn't included. Traeger, a lot like Weber is high volume. They're a publicly traded company. They're super high volume. They sell a ton of
products and what they do, and this is where I think,
this is just my opinion, where I think they have
their business model a little bit backwards, is
their highest volume dealers get this specialty grill. So this is a grill you probably won't see in Costco and things like that. Maybe you will, I don't know. But all the high end
dealers get these grills. The problem is all the
high volume dealers. Usually aren't specialty barbecue shops. Like we're a specialty barbecue shop. And a $4,000 grill is
like right up our alley. Chris, how many $4,000 grills do we sell? - [Chris] A lot. - Tons, tons. And the problem is we don't
sell that many $799 smokers. Because that's just not the
clients we have coming in here. Customers come into a
specialty barbecue shop, 'cause they're looking for something a little bit nicer than
the big box stores. The way we say it is, right where the big box stores leave
off is where we start. So the highest end at big box, then you come to us and
you can see everything from thousand bucks up to 10, 11 grand. This grill is our wheelhouse. It would fit perfectly in our showroom. But as of right now, I
think we're gonna get it. But we weren't included
in the initial launch because we're just not a
high volume enough dealer. That's my little pitch while I
opened this, that's my spiel. So me just being a little
personally irked about it. But hey, I get it. That has nothing to do with
the grill review, by the way. Other than I'm gonna give you guys as an authentic review as possible. You can't fault the packaging,
how cool is this packaging? Oh, look at that. Inside is printed too. What does it say? Come in, it kind of looks like a saloon. Look at this thing. This thing is a beast. I'll confess, I don't know
a lot about this grill. Outside of the fact that I know it has an awesome electric side burner, which I'm hoping gets hot enough to sear. I feel like that's kind
of the point of it, and a new touch screen control. Okay, so here's our hopper. This is our pellet sensor. So that's gonna tell us
how full our pellets are. Before I start putting it together. I just want to get a good look at her. And I think we get some nice little storage shelves down here. And then I think there's
a rail system here. Oh, here we go. Here's all our goodies. We got storage under here. Let's see if I can get
under the hood at all, works with Alexa and Google home. We're gonna have to try that out. Oh mama. Here's our cooking box. Interior line stainless steel. Looks like we have a bunch of adjustable racking systems in here. This may be looks like our side burner. So we're gonna have a
little bit of assembly, but at least the cart's assembled. I forgot to mention, really the only way to put this to the test,
is obviously to cook on it. So you better believe we're
gonna put this to the test, and we're gonna cook on it in this video. Okay, so here's like our drip pan. I think that's our grease tray that feeds down into there. Here's our burn pot,
there's our ignition system. So here's our actual fire box. Pretty cool looking. Looks like enamel interior. All right, should we get
this thing put together, man? - Yeah.
- All right. Let's finish putting it together then we're gonna fire it up, I'm curious what this
control system looks like, what the side burner looks like, and the side burner gets as hot as they claim it's gonna get. We're gonna have to reverse here probably a Tomahawk or something. Should we get going?
- Yeah. - Let's do it. All right, we got this beast put together. Like I said, if you couldn't
tell when I was unboxing it, my feelings were a little hurt. It wasn't included with
the launch of this thing. But anyways, the only
reason I just said that is, I actually don't know a lot about this. So we're gonna learn together. Let's talk about hardware. Then we'll get into hardware upgrades. Then we'll get into software upgrades. And of course we're gonna
actually cook on this. So I'm excited to fire
it up and play with it. You can see it's really kind of stuck true to the roots of Traeger
and true to the roots of the original on Timberline. Like a lot of the aesthetics are similar. Obviously Traeger's kind of known for their powder coat finish. Nice clean lines. Doesn't have a huge
Traeger logo right here. Just kind of a small one here. They sort of matted out or
matte blacked out this handle. Almost looks like black stainless. It's pretty cool. Bamboo cutting board, true
to the general timber line. This is the 1300 or the
XL, I guess they call it. The reason I was saying 1300, is cooking size is about the same, but you can see what is nice is we got a lot more
vertical space in the grill. So the original timber line, I personally cooked on a timber line for three or four years I had one, 1300. I loved it, it was an awesome machine. But it would get snug
with the second and third of row racks in. So personally I like how we
gained more vertical space. And this is I think, a big deal that we have all these adjustments. So if you want to just put in
two and evenly space amount, or if you wanna, you know,
make them a little snugger, more snug, I guess you could say. And then this is different too. These are a little more modular, these heavy duty stainless
grates, which I like. Because the other one
for so heavy and big. So this is kind of the best both worlds, 'cause they're heavy and thick,
but they're more modular. So they're not a huge pain
in the butt to move around. Especially if you gotta
get to this burn pot or anything like that. We kind of showed you that
when we're putting it together, but essentially one of the
upgrades you're gonna get is your ash clean out, and
your grease tray clean out is all right here. So that's pretty simple
and straightforward. Only time will tell if it actually, I'm assuming it's gonna
do its job, but you know, funnel down a little bit easier. These doors are soft close. Now you'll notice, I forgot to mention, rocking the Air Jordan 3
Cardinal Red, not a Cardinal fan, but hard to pass these up, pretty sweet. You notice too we have
our induction side burner. One of the biggest complaints
we get with customers who at Traeger and a lot of
pellet smokers in general, is they don't get hot enough. So we're gonna put this to the test, and see if it can actually
get hot enough to sear. It's induction cooking. So I'm assuming it's going to, but most of the induction
cook tops I've seen are 220. This is just a regular plugin. So we'll see how powerful it is. And hopefully it does the job. But to me, this is the biggest upgrade on the grill, personally. The fact that we have a cooker or a smoker as an all in one with the ability to sear, without bringing gas in, without bringing up a separate propane, skillet top, or something like that, you basically have a station
that can do everything. And that's what we're gonna test out. We're gonna reverse your Tomahawk. So we're gonna try that out
and see if we think of it. The rail system. This is a unique rail system and it's really designed and integrated for all their fun accessories. So they have accessories. Like this, for example. Which we just haven't put on yet. Stuff like front shelves, hanging hooks. I'm sure they're gonna be coming out with even more accessories. You know, condiment trays. It's just gonna attach here. So always be fun little
goodies, paper, towel, racks, things like that, I'm guessing. And I'm sure they're just gonna keep expanding those accessory features, which is pretty cool. 'Cause it kind of future
proofs the grill a little bit. The other thing we
notice with the hardware is nice sharp, clean line lines. Now this is so, what's cool is this can be integrated or built in. So this side burner can detach and then this side burner
can be more like an insert, an outdoor kitchen. And then the rest of this thing can literally just slide
into your outdoor kitchen. Which is super cool
because obviously Traeger's has really nothing to the market that is really designed
for an outdoor kitchen. My only hesitation, I don't
know how I feel about it. I don't know what I think about it, but it's still not like a true, like a real actual built in
head, like an outdoor kitchen. You know, this is a gas grill,
man, it's a mess over here. But something like this,
Twin Eagles, Coyote, Memphis, they make a true built in
stainless steel grill head. It's not that. And part of me is bummed about that. But then the other part of me is like, just stick to what you're good at. Traeger's good at this look,
they're good at this design. It's the design people know and love, and they sort of have stuck with that. Like I said, the roots of it look a lot like the original Timberline. Tell me what you guys think. I can't decide, I'm on the fence about it. I'm kind of bummed that they
don't have of a true stainless, like authentic built in head. Maybe they're coming out
with one, I don't know. But this, at least what
you can do with this is I think it's on the right track. You can do this and have it
built into an outdoor kitchen, because when you try to
build in a pro or something, it just looks kind of stupid, you know, kind of framing around it. It doesn't look good. This is gonna look good
and gonna look like it's meant to be built around
with the outdoor kitchen, which is a big upgrade, I think. We're gonna talk about the control system. The control system is
touchscreen and colored, when we fire it up, of course,
we're gonna go through that. We'll go through the app
system, connecting it, all that, but we'll save that for
when we get outside. Last little thing on hardware, does have the downdraft system. That's the same D2 controller
that's in the old one. And then here we have our
bamboo sort of shelves, which of course is super handy. I don't think you can
ever have enough storage. And then I'm pretty sure, here we go. Yeah, I found it. I thought that's what this is. So this is a hopper clean out. So what a hopper clean out does, let's see if we can see
it from inside here. So see right here, this is handy because, is it working? - [Chris] There we go. - So see that? This is for, if we want to change the flavor of our pellets, we can. So we just open that up, all
the pellets dump out of it, then we can refill it with a new flavor. And this, oh boy, what have I done? Bust the it already. This is a pellet storage
bin, which is pretty cool. Let's see if I can fix it quick. There we go. So this pellet storage
bin comes with you grill. Sits right there. Boom, easy, that's a big upgrade. The other one you kind of would have to hold a bucket up to it, make a huge mess. So you can see they've
definitely refined this grill. It's cleaner, the ash clean
out simpler, easier to use, cleaning out your pellets
is simple or easy to use. It's got a cleaner sleeker design. In my opinion, we gain more
space in our cooker itself, even though it's the same
amount of square inches. To me, this is a bigger grill, because we have more vertical
space within the grill. And this induction cooktop,
I think is a game changer. I think it's the best feature they came out with on this grill. But now we gotta put our
money where our mouth is, and actually see if
that's the best feature. Should we go fire this thing up? - Let's see what it can do.
- Let's do it. I almost forgot one of the most, the coolest things in my opinion. So it comes with, looks like
a couple wired meat probes. Which is typical with the Traeger, but here's what's really cool. Traeger bought out MEATER,
company called MEATER, which is wireless meat probes. I think they make the best
meat probes on the market. They're expensive, for like a
hundred bucks for a one pack. Then 300 bucks for a
four pack meter block. But they are hands down
the best meat probes on planet earth, in my opinion. Guess what they do with the Timberline XL. Boom, that was a pleasant surprise. I didn't know that was gonna be in here. We get two MEATERs. And to me that's like a free
200 bucks they're giving you. So let's check it out. That's like a $200 value in this grill. I mean you are dropping almost four grand. Oh boy, what have I done? Oh, these are my meat probe clips. So we get our two meat probes. Now the way the normal
meter block works is, the block, this is what actually
charges your meat probes. So I bet you there's a
battery pack in here. Oh yeah, there you go. So this actually keeps
your meat probes charged. And then when they're outta here, this is how they sync to Bluetooth. Now they give you two of these
and they are a hundred bucks. But when you buy them
the standalone miles, you get a much nicer
like wood grain block. This is plastic, not the end of the world, but the other one is a lot more attractive and you can like set it
on your kitchen counter. Here's what you do, you get the nice, attractive one for indoors and then use this one for outdoor barbecuing. This is my 2 cents, but this is really cool
that they gave you these. And we're gonna use these
on the, on our cook today. So far, I'm really happy with this grill. It would definitely go in my top five, but now we have to cook on it to see if it's actually gonna hold up. All right, with tomahawks. I don't like to get cute with it. You know, you don't want to screw up a cut of meat like this. I mean, look at this thing. How awesome is that? One of my favorite, most fun cuts to do, and really I think the
only way to do a Tomahawk is reverse searing it. That's why I thought it'd be a perfect test for this Traeger. So I just like to do a binder. I'm using olive oil. I like olive oil because
olive oil gives you an nice, when you go to reverse sear
it gives you a really nice, like crispy little crunch to it. And Tomahawks are so thick that, gotta get all the sides,
and edges and everything. Oh yeah. And then I don't like to get
cute with my seasoning either. I just like to use my favorite seasoning. We'll include links
for all this stuff too. SPG it's basically salt, pepper, garlic, and a little bit of cane sugar. I don't like sweet, a lot
of sweet with my steaks. And then again, because
our cut is so thick, I don't think you can really
over season the Tomahawk because it's hard to get that flavor down into the middle meat. All right, she's nice and seasoned. That pepper gets me sometimes. Also side note, our kitchen, we're building a nice big kitchen here. So we're not gonna be back
here like animals working. It is gonna be awesome, it's almost done. All right, she's nice and seasoned. She's gonna be ready to go on. So let's go fire up that grill. Get the app synced to it. Let that paint cure in a
little bit on a new grill. And we'll be ready to cook. All right, took a minute. Those stinkers, they like
to hide the power button. So there's a master
power button down here. We check this out. We got some side lighting
too, that's sweet. Look at that. That doesn't hurt. All right, so I'm logged
in on our Traeger app here. So let's control the grill. So we have to season the
grill, which we know, connect our grill, explore your grill. We don't need to know how to do that. Tour guide, no, I don't need that. Connect your grill, start pairing. Yeah, I like that this is touchscreen. To me that's much better 'cause now everyone uses touchscreen. It's just the most intuitive
way to control something. So it's nice that they've done that versus having to use
the dial for everything. So this is much improved. So now we're just gonna
let this season for an hour and then we'll get going here. Let's get it in here. Oh mama. - Whew.
- Sorry. - So I'm gonna put it on the second rack so it doesn't get too hot. And then I'm still letting
my MEATER probes charge, but we'll sync the MEATER Probe here. And in the meantime,
while this is smoking, let's test out this induction. See how it works. All right, so I'm just curious
how long this is gonna take. This looks pretty straight forward. There's a Bluetooth button, I have to figure out what that does. But we're gonna put it in turbo mode. I can hear something happening, but I'm curious how fast and
how hot this is gonna get. Oh man. That cast iron's hot. Look at this 206, 215. Holy cow, look at that. It's been on, not even a minute. I'm curious, I have it in turbo mode. So I'm curious how hot it's gonna get. All right, I just shut this
off, but we hit 650 degrees in like a minute and a half. That's pretty awesome. I love that they stuck with
this whole grill being electric. Obviously that's sort of their origin. It would've been a pain to like have to bring in a propane
tank for your side burner or something like that. This induction cook top, including it in this grill is genius. I love it, I'm in love. All right let's see if we can
get our meat probe connected. So we're gonna go meat probe one. We're gonna hit our menu. We're gonna go down to accessories, and we're gonna go pair BT probe. It's searching for this guy. It should have enough juice. Okay. So your device, we're
gonna set our goal alarm. So essentially what I'm gonna do is, I want this thing to alert
me when our internal temp reaches 110 degrees. Because that's when it's
time to reverse here. I love, I love, I cannot say it enough that
the MEATER wireless technology is integrated into the app. That makes it so awesome. All right, I'm gonna
go right in the middle. There we go. So now we got our wireless meat probe in, we got our induction cook top
ready, got our meat probe. Which is only at 73 degrees. We've been in super smoke mode, to get to really get that smoke flavor in for probably 30, 45 minutes. I don't think we need to
stay in super smoke mode. So I'm gonna crank it up a little bit. It's been smoking at 225. I think we're gonna go 275. Let's do 280, what the heck? All right, super smoke is off. Now it's gonna go to 280. Our meat probe is in. Now then let's see, it's picking
up our meat probe here too. This is what's so sweet. It tells us what our batteries
are at on a meat probe. Current temp, 160. Our goal is 110, 70%
remaining on our pellets tells us how full our fuel is,
our side burner's connected. Man, this thing's awesome. All right, so we hit our temp control. So first thing we gotta do is get our induction cooker going. Little bit of butter, and we are about ready
to rock and roll here. Look at that. Oh yeah. All right, let's go for it. Ready Chris?
- Yep. - Do her die time. Look at that While that's going, I'm
just gonna be based in this. That's a sear all right. Get in there, close up
of it burning Chris. - [Chris] Oh yeah. Oh yeah. - First thing we gotta do is
get this MEATER outta here. There's our meat probe. Oh my goodness. I can tell this thing, look at that. I can tell this thing
did a good job searing. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Somebody's (indistinct) dogs
probably gonna want that. Oh my gosh. Are you kidding me? I always like to cut this off, and then cut it down the middle where our nice medium rares are. I almost finished medium, huh? - [Chris] That looks good. - Man, it's still piping hot. All right, let's try it. (instructor moaning) Oh, You guys don't even know. You don't even know how good that is. Obviously the Traeger got
a lot of smoke in there. That nice crispy crust from the sear. Oh man. Guys, I gotta say, 'cause my
feelings were a little hurt like I said earlier. I almost didn't wanna like the thing. I love it. It is awesome. I would definitely get one
going, but it can do the job. I mean it can do what no
Traeger's ever done before. I'll tell you that much. I'm in love. Stay tuned for next time.
