Shane - glitchy
TVWBB Super Fan
I've been stressing over this all week, but have finally decided that I am returning it this weekend. I do really like the grill, I'm very disappointed in the failure live up to the expectations Weber themselves set. I'm not all doom and gloom over the issues at all. I think it's a pretty decent grill. The smoke output to me seems amazing, especially at higher temps. The ability to grill and bakes pizzas is implemented well. Pizzas were always mixed on other pellet grills due to being at the peak of the temp range and the recovery time when putting on, checking, turning etc. The SmokeFire turns them out like a pizza shop.
The pellet feed is the biggest issue to me followed very closely by the fire risk and the pain of cleaning. I believe I could mitigate these issues, but I don't feel that should be something the customer has to do on a $1000 product. If I wanted to put in that much effort, I'd buy a smoke daddy hopper and welder and build my own grill. I admire Dave for having the energy and creativeness to keep experimenting away. I was going to buy food safe silicone spray, cell phone buzzers, and drip pans and call it good. Then my wife started questioning having to do those things and said you're going to be ****** off when there's a fire. In the end she has to put up with me if I put up with the grill, so it's going back.
The pellet feed is the biggest issue to me followed very closely by the fire risk and the pain of cleaning. I believe I could mitigate these issues, but I don't feel that should be something the customer has to do on a $1000 product. If I wanted to put in that much effort, I'd buy a smoke daddy hopper and welder and build my own grill. I admire Dave for having the energy and creativeness to keep experimenting away. I was going to buy food safe silicone spray, cell phone buzzers, and drip pans and call it good. Then my wife started questioning having to do those things and said you're going to be ****** off when there's a fire. In the end she has to put up with me if I put up with the grill, so it's going back.