The Searwood has arrived!

[Bruno]

If you’re interested. I did the biscuit test after initial burn in. Cooked at 350 for 15 minutes. Center of grill seems very consistent. Left side hotter than right and back hotter than front. View attachment 88834View attachment 88835

Interested? Heck yeah we’re interested. Great test.

 

[LMichaels]

Nothing to sneeze at there. Will take results like that any day

 

[EricV.]

The nomenclature behind the biscuit test is synonymous with ensuring the doneness of the different biscuits, it will give you an idea of where your smokers hot & cold spots are. This practice is usually always performed in the offset smoker world.

 

[Mark Combs]

Looks like a great grill. Thanks for the biscuit test; that provided a great visual.

I too am on the fence. Love my large Smokefire, but do see this as potentially reducing one, or maybe (a very weak maybe) two of my grills. Certainly the versatility that they are advertising has me very intrigued.

 

[WB Zipf]

I just purchased the griddle accessory for my Genesis gas grill. I think I might keep,it set up in that mode, then use my kettle for grilling and BBq. OR I will get the Searwood for my smoker and grill.

 

[Bob Erdman]

We need to see how the searwood sears! Throw a few steaks on that bad boy and crank it up.

 

[Jay D in Jersey]

At least you got to see one in person. Way out of my price range, but I still like some things about it.

It was interesting. They had the older model Summit sitting a few feet from the new version. I think they had a reduced price tag on it of $2500.
It's been sitting at that price for at least 6 weeks now. I doubt most of their customers would care about cast aluminum vs enameled steel cook boxes.

 

[Greg Ross-MN]

How's the smoke output? Fan noise? Love the smoke output/flavor of my SF but boy the fan is loud.

 

[DavidLeRow]

How's the smoke output? Fan noise? Love the smoke output/flavor of my SF but boy the fan is loud.

Not sure about either smoke output or fan noise since it’s my first pellet grill. Seems to put out a decent amount of smoke. Could taste the smokiness in the bisquits. Fan seems on the louder side but nothing annoying.

 

[DavidLeRow]

First real cook after the biscuit test was a beer can chicken. 7lb seasoned with The Gospel by Meat Church. Cooked at 350 for 2 hours.

 

[DavidLeRow]

The grease/ash management seems to be working well after this cook as seen in pics. Plan to cook some steaks this weekend to see how it sears. Not planning to clean for a few cooks to see what happens.

 

[LMichaels]

Looks good but I am assuming you used a drip pan?

 

[DavidLeRow]

Looks good but I am assuming you used a drip pan?

No drip pan underneath. Chicken was right in the center. Here is pic of flavorizer bar.

 

[LMichaels]

No drip pan underneath. Chicken was right in the center. Here is pic of flavorizer bar. View attachment 88859

Nice. Maybe they have this thing "licked". Really want to see how things go for it over the coming weeks and cooks for you

 

[Bruno]

The grease/ash management seems to be working well after this cook as seen in pics. Plan to cook some steaks this weekend to see how it sears. Not planning to clean for a few cooks to see what happens.
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That sure is some clean grease in the pan. That never happened on the SmokeFire. More a muddy mix of ash and some grease.
Interesting!!

 

[DavidLeRow]

That sure is some clean grease in the pan. That never happened on the SmokeFire. More a muddy mix of ash and some grease.
Interesting!!

Yea I thought the same thing about the grease in the pan. Doesn’t seem to have a lot of ash in it. We’ll see when I do some low and slow cooks.
Forgot which one of you asked about ash on the lower shelf. There was none after this cook.

 

[JimK]

First real cook after the biscuit test was a beer can chicken. 7lb seasoned with The Gospel by Meat Church. Cooked at 350 for 2 hours.
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Gorgeous bird. Looks like the left side is a tad hotter than the right. going on memory, I think your biscuit test showed that. How did it taste?

 

[JimK]

No drip pan underneath. Chicken was right in the center. Here is pic of flavorizer bar. View attachment 88859

Good seasoning.

 

[DavidLeRow]

Gorgeous bird. Looks like the left side is a tad hotter than the right. going on memory, I think your biscuit test showed that. How did it taste?

Tasted great! Nice and juicy. Wife and kids approved but thought it could use more seasoning. I knew I liked them!! Haha.

 

[Greg Ross-MN]

Saw a post on Facebook with a few videos. His wife apparently works for Weber so he's had the Searwood for a few months. He was searing steaks and there were definitely flames/flareups from the grease catching fire on the flavorizer bar. Looks like it could be a good grill.