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All Things Considered => General Discussion--Food Related => Topic started by: pmillen on October 05, 2017, 12:04:39 PM

Title: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: pmillen on October 05, 2017, 12:04:39 PM

Is it a pellet grill?  Well, it's not really a grill.

Is it a pellet pit?  Not really a pit either.

Is it a pellet smoker?  Close, but most units do more than smoke.

Is it a Pellet unit?  This is the way I'm currently leaning but it's not very descriptive to the uninitiated.

What's your preferred term?

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: jdmessner on October 05, 2017, 12:28:54 PM

Pellet cooker perhaps. Or if you go with the Biblical reference posted in a previous thread: "Smoking Firepot".

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: triplebq on October 05, 2017, 12:34:03 PM

Smoker

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Kristin Meredith on October 05, 2017, 12:52:54 PM

Pit -- I only have to type 3 letters :pig:

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: TLK on October 05, 2017, 12:55:44 PM

I've always liked "pellet pooper"

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Canadian John on October 05, 2017, 02:05:33 PM

I'll go with "PIT" not that is 100% correct but the closest and probably the best understood in the world of BBQ.

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: SmokinHandyman on October 05, 2017, 02:53:41 PM

Pit :bbq:

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Bentley on October 05, 2017, 03:13:19 PM

Pit.  But I use unit a lot too!

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Trooper on October 05, 2017, 03:46:09 PM

All of the “above”

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Queball on October 05, 2017, 03:57:47 PM

I'm in for "Pit" or "Cooker"

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: triplebq on October 05, 2017, 04:08:29 PM

Something that can produce Que that is better than anything I can get at a restaurant  :pig:

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Bobitis on October 05, 2017, 06:48:20 PM

Unit just sounds 'sterile' to me. No idea why. I prefer smoker or cooker, but pit works just as well.

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: pmillen on October 05, 2017, 07:43:35 PM

Quote from: Bobitis on October 05, 2017, 06:48:20 PM

Unit just sounds 'sterile' to me. No idea why.

That's how I feel about it.  It doesn't tell me anything.  I was hoping for something more descriptive. 

So far we are leaning toward pit.

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Quadman750 on October 06, 2017, 06:08:19 AM

 I referr to mine as a pellet grill.

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: riverrat49 on October 06, 2017, 06:26:25 AM

I just call mine a smoker

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Timbo1010 on October 06, 2017, 09:07:23 AM

I explain mine as a pellet grill that's a smoker first grill second

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Polekitty on October 08, 2017, 03:37:19 PM

I've always used it as a smoker and won't use it as a grill so smoker it is for me.

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Canadian John on October 08, 2017, 04:18:15 PM

Back in the early fifties when we lived in Arizona, BBQ was done over a "pit" in the ground. They would be very long cooks involving a full cow.

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: WannaBsmokin on October 08, 2017, 06:23:30 PM

How about "That thing on my deck out of which comes amazing food"? :clap: :rotf:

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: Starship on October 08, 2017, 09:54:49 PM

I don't care what you call it, just make sure you call me in time for dinner....   :clap: :clap:

Title: Re: What Should We Call These Things We Cook On?
Post by: jdmessner on October 09, 2017, 01:05:09 AM

Quote from: Starship on October 08, 2017, 09:54:49 PM

I don't care what you call it, just make sure you call me in time for dinner....   :clap: :clap:

Sounds like a winner to me!