Searwood - Yea or Nay?


 
I for one never buy the first model year of anything...car, major appliance, etc... With that in mind, the Searwood is even in a more critical situation coming off the evident total failure of the SmokeFubar. Waiting it out a year or 3 seems prudent.
 
Raymond Gatnor said:
I for one never buy the first model year of anything...car, major appliance, etc... With that in mind, the Searwood is even in a more critical situation coming off the evident total failure of the SmokeFubar. Waiting it out a year or 3 seems prudent.
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Technically I don't look at Searwood as a first year product. I think Weber honed everything they learned from the failings of the Smokefire and made something just "conventional" enough to work yet still unconventional enough to be ground breaking
 
LMichaels said:
Technically I don't look at Searwood as a first year product. I think Weber honed everything they learned from the failings of the Smokefire and made something just "conventional" enough to work yet still unconventional enough to be ground breaking
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Agreed. The Searwood has taken all the failings of the SmokeFire and put the solutions into the Searwood. I would recommend the Searwood to any and everyone looking for a pellet cooker. I am completely blown away. The cooking is great, but the fact I can do a "deep clean" in about 5 minutes is a heck of a feature.
 
LMichaels said:
Technically I don't look at Searwood as a first year product. I think Weber honed everything they learned from the failings of the Smokefire and made something just "conventional" enough to work yet still unconventional enough to be ground breaking
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The name has changed. The design has changed. The internal components are completely different. That adds up to a new, first model by most standards. It may very well be a great product but it needs some more time to prove that.
 
Raymond Gatnor said:
The name has changed. The design has changed. The internal components are completely different. That adds up to a new, first model by most standards. It may very well be a great product but it needs some more time to prove that.
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If this was Weber's first foray into the pellet arena (as what happened with SmokeFire) I would give the comment full creds. But it's not. They took everything that "worked" about SmokeFire, and kept it, everything that didn't, it looks like they put where it belongs (in the trash). And made the SearWood.
Believe me, given my past history with how badly the company let me down (which you obviously may not know about), you would NOT count me as a Weber "fanboy".
But, the SearWood? I'd buy one! Yeah there are things I definitely dislike (wagon wheels and no casters, no standard shelves, fixed top grate rather than sliding, and chrome plated grates, along with a fairly high price tag), but right here and now, knowing what I know, if I was in the market for a pellet grill today, I would snag one. And believe me I am about as bad a Weber "cynic" as you're likely to find
 
timothy said:
I'm surprised. He was one of the 1st Gen Smokefire enablers and that didn't work out too good.
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He still thinks the SF gen 2 is one of the best pellet cookers he has used. With that said, he has a million smokers/grills he cooks with, so who knows how many times he actually used it. He said the video will be an in-depth comparison between the SF and SW. I will definitely post the link when he gets it uploaded.
 
I've had a WSM for some time, but I bought a Broil King pellet grill, just for the convenience.

Pellet grills are great, but just don't give that total smoky experience IMO, that charcoal and or wood chunks can give you.
 
Paul M said:
I've had a WSM for some time, but I bought a Broil King pellet grill, just for the convenience.

Pellet grills are great, but just don't give that total smoky experience IMO, that charcoal and or wood chunks can give you.
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I keep seeing people put that comment and quite honestly it makes me SMH. I find all the smokey experience I could ever ask for. Pellet grills (at least my 2) but, I suspect many others Searwood included, can roll coal with the best of them. Just gotta learn how to go with their different work flow is all. They do have a slightly different cooking style and work flow but once learned you can turn out all the smokey goodness you could ever want
 
LMichaels said:
I keep seeing people put that comment and quite honestly it makes me SMH. I find all the smokey experience I could ever ask for. Pellet grills (at least my 2) but, I suspect many others Searwood included, can roll coal with the best of them. Just gotta learn how to go with their different work flow is all. They do have a slightly different cooking style and work flow but once learned you can turn out all the smokey goodness you could ever want
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We'll have to agree to disagree then. Perhaps its my Broil King. I've taken to add wood dust trays to increase the 'smokeyness'. Cooked fair few briskets on my WSM, can't get a similar bark on my BK.
 
Yeah IDK. I get incredible bark on my briskets and my butts. Great smoke. Now, not gonna say I got this first time I used them. It's a learning experience to learn how work with your tools and use them to the best effectiveness. Took me a few tries to get techniques nailed down. I've looked at the BKs they don't seem all too different from my 2. IOW pretty generic.
I think once you get techniques nailed down you will find that ol BK can do a better job than you give it credit for
 
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