My $0.02 worth. All these new grills with all this technology is exactly what I DIDN’T want when buying my E and now S6. I wanted no moving parts. No electricity required. No “assist” anything. And that’s what I bought.
The sheer pleasure of me, proteins, real charcoal over a natural fire, all for the best tasting food I could make.
Why all these grills with lights, beeps, boops, clicks, plugs and pretend smoke? I don’t get it and don’t care to either.
I had a post exchange on YouTube when Jeremy Yoder did a recent review of some $5,000 pellet smoker. The Traeger guy I was posting to said he has kids, homework, housework and other life commitments that he “couldn’t tend to a fire for 12 hours” to make food.
I don’t know what y’all are cooking and the frequency to eat a 12 hour cook, but for me, and maybe this is me, I grill 90% of the time and do a LAS the other 10%. And that 10% is on weekends and holidays when I can enjoy doing a LAS and the pleasure I derive from making PB or brisket.
And I do my LAS overnights so I can cook and sleep at the same time. I’m a man of efficiency.
I don’t and don’t think I will ever understand why people are so into these Betty Crocker Easy Bake brisket ovens. My no technology E/S6 does it all and my parts ain’t moving or breaking.
Carry on. No insults intended to anyone who likes all this new tech and pellet stuff. I love you all. And I’m not some 80 year old guy set in his ways. Lower mid fifties and I’ve seen a thing or two in my five decades cooking.
ADD ON: I also drive a manual transmission car. I guess I’m irrelevant to the rest of the world. And I’m okay with that.