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When did you get your first pellet grill?
« on: May 18, 2020, 01:01:34 PM »
This may already be a thread somewhere.  I just noticed that I got my first pellet grill in early May 2011.  It was the Traeger XL.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2020, 01:23:15 PM »

 If my foggy memory serves me well, it was 2013 or 14. A Traeger Li'L Tex was it... Things have changed a lot since then.  Back in those days temperature swings were just starting to be addressed. Direct flame

cooking was experimental and igniter failures were common place. Pelletheads was full of experimentation and people seeking resolution to the teething problems of the day.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #2 on: May 18, 2020, 01:27:18 PM »
I got my first one in late 2013. Second one in mid 2014.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #3 on: May 18, 2020, 01:34:21 PM »
4/22/14- I had to look at the receipt to remember.    Traeger lil Tex from Costco $499.99 plus a hot dog and soda for $1.50 more ;D
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #4 on: May 18, 2020, 01:59:03 PM »
ha!  I knew my signature file would come in useful someday!

Traeger Texas March/April 2010 (2009 china model) still got it, but only use a handful of times a year.  Gator Pit Texas Premier II June of 2018. 
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #5 on: May 18, 2020, 02:04:29 PM »
2004 - Lil Tex from the Traeger Barn...
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #6 on: May 18, 2020, 02:05:27 PM »
Bentley got the first one, but I did cook on it some and did things at comps -- I believe it was 2003, but may have been 2002.  He will have to post. Traeger.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #7 on: May 18, 2020, 02:11:22 PM »
I got my Traeger Junior in 2013 and the GMG Daniel Boone in 2015.  I had a stick burner before that I got in 2010.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2020, 02:48:25 PM »
2013 I think, rec tec. then 2015 gmg DC and 2018 pit boss CH7, sold the rec tec shortly after, needed room and it was collecting dust. Would like to have another but not sure what I would want. If a better company takes the masterbuilt gravity design and makes a better product I could see me wanting one of them.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2020, 03:05:02 PM »

 Just love those "think" + "can't rember" words. Glad I wasn't the only one.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2020, 03:21:35 PM »
Quote from: Canadian John on May 18, 2020, 03:05:02 PM

 Just love those "think" + "can't rember" words. Glad I wasn't the only one.

I had to go back and look at the meta data on the photo file to see when they were taken to figure out the date.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2020, 04:26:38 PM »
I had to look at my signature. It was a 2010 Trager Lil Tex. I sold it but as of a couple months ago, it was still cookin' for someone else.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2020, 04:53:37 PM »
I'm with the ???? camp.  Think it was 1016-17 maybe.  If I'd only known there was going to be a test, I woulda studied. :P
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2020, 04:56:46 PM »
Trager 075, 2002.
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Re: When did you get your first pellet grill?
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2020, 05:02:35 PM »
March 2016.  RT680.  Yep I am one of the newbies around here.
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