Traeger owners....why do they always think THEY are so dang awesome?

Thatgrimguy

Eggheads are worse than Traeger owners on the brand loyalty thing. Half the people on this very site believe they own the worlds best "smoker" or worlds best "pizza oven" or worlds best "grill" because they own a green egg. When in fact in any of those single areas it would lose to many other products. But none of those other products can do all three as well as the egg. IF anything it's the world's best muli-cooker. or Worlds most versatile grill. 

Thatgrimguy

nolaegghead said:

So long story short.... This guy lived on some land near the boarder of Mississippi and Louisiana on the LA side.  He was a wall street banker that bought some land. Rich, crazy, smart hippy.   Designs second life video.  No AC, but huge monitors and giant servers everywhere.  Like Col. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, vines growing over his early 18th century buildings, into the house, on the ceiling over expensive computer hardware.  All the while, his many dogs and even a Hemmingway cat roamed freely.

He sits on a goldmine of wood.  Seasoning for years.  A hobby he said.  He has a shop with about 80K worth of Festool tools.

He has a long beard, long hair, he's nearing 70.  A hermit that loves visitors.  He said everyone around is in the Klan, so he only has three local friends.

So when are we going to meet this dude?

Miked125

I thought about buying the char grilled model because it's cheap and I could take it to the lake easier.... that said I bought the egg because I owned weber products and like cooking with charcoal but the weber couldn't hold up to our cold winters.

nolaegghead

CTMike said:

@nolaegghead,

I see that BGE isn't the only green kool aid you've drank. SWMBO would kill me if she knew what I spent on Festool. Talk about an expensive hobby. 

Those we are some gorgeous slabs you're working with there.  

@CTMike - tell me about it.  I don't even want to add up what I spent on Festool.  The good thing is I love them and use them all the time.  ....then there are the consumables.....    But they are the Mercedes of woodworking power tools....

nolaegghead

@Thatgrimguy I'm going to take a trip to his farm sometime after labor day, if you'd like to go, lemme know!

YukonRon

Festool rules.

YukonRon

I got a Traeger I rebuilt for a neighbor who's wife bought him a BGE. He threw it out after only using it a couple of times due to the problems he has had with it. I use it from time to time as a joke. I do small simple stuff like hotdogs for the children. I offered back to him, he said he never wanted that ($&@?€£¥%#) grill back on his property. The concept is good, the manufacturing on this system, not so much. If not to use as a fun joke, I doubt I would ever use it.
BGE rules, Traeger drools.

dogfoot

I have both and enjoy using the Traeger for different things, sometimes I use my XL and the Traeger at the same time

Legume

If I had ordered lump off Amazon and they shipped me a Traeger by mistake, I would not kick it off my deck.  I would happily use it when it was the right tool for what I was trying to do.

dogfoot

I wanted to add Traeger's customer service is the best I have ever experienced
very help full and professional

DoubleEgger

dogfoot said:

I wanted to add Traeger's customer service is the best I have ever experienced
very help full and professional

You haven't experienced BGE customer service then!

Ivanhoe

Nice project @nolaegghead! Did you use your Domino to join those two monsters?

Ladeback69

When I was looking at getting a new grill to replace the old gasser I went to my dealer who sells, Weber, Saber, Traeger, GoodOne, BGE and Blackstone pizza makers just to name what I can remember from the show room floor.  I thought about gas for a minute, then looked at BGE, GoodOne and Traeger.  They are all good at what they can do I liked the Egg more because it did a lot of different things well.  In still want a GoodOne our some kind of stick burn at some point if I get in to catering or doing completions.  My sister and brother in law have a Traeger and love it, but not at first.  They did some reading up on how to use it and now they cook on it a lot.  It is a great set it and leave it grill/smoker.  I can make good food in our gas over/range that is in the house, but since I got the Egg it doesn't see a lot of action unless SWMBO is cooking and I don't feel like it.  When I took a cooking class from Chris Marks with Three Little Pigs and GoodOne Smokers he tried to get me to get rid of the egg and buy a GoodOne, but I said I am just fine with the egg. 

CTMike

nolaegghead said:

CTMike said:

@nolaegghead,

I see that BGE isn't the only green kool aid you've drank. SWMBO would kill me if she knew what I spent on Festool. Talk about an expensive hobby. 

Those we are some gorgeous slabs you're working with there.  

@CTMike - tell me about it.  I don't even want to add up what I spent on Festool.  The good thing is I love them and use them all the time.  ....then there are the consumables.....    But they are the Mercedes of woodworking power tools....

Agreed, they are amazing tools with incredible accuracy and repeatability. The consumables definitely add to the bottom line, that's for sure. 

I used the track saw to cut off the top and bottom of a solid Doug Fir raised panel door. Diagonals were within 1mm of each other. Them used the domino cutter to attach 4x4 posts on each end and turned it into a headboard. Still have to finish the footboard.