I'm currently driving home with my new pitboss navigator 1300 just curious if anyone has any tips for first time users storing cooking cleaning maintenance etc.
Ps I'm located in Canada
by bradleyld01
16 Comments
stempdog218
Very first thing you should do is register your new smoker with pitboss to get that 5 year warranty
Louisvilleveryown
Register for warranty and make sure you do a good burn off
C4ddy
Smoke everything. it is the best way to learn. buy cheap meat, expensive meat, chicken, pork, turkey, salmon, vegetables everything. just smoke it. you will learn how your grill works and it will give you better instincts when it comes to just cooking.
Edit: Also take everything you learn online with a grain of salt. most of the time it works good but there is always 10 different ways to do something.
AdmiralBallsack
there’s lots & lots of youtube videos to help you with this
Evening-Animal-4820
the pit boss app sucks. I like bear mountain pellets best but other than thst have fun. its like sex for the first time, its gonna be good but gets even better every time and no one can really teach you.
Hungry-Ad-9822
Go ahead and buy another igniter to have on hand if it didn’t come with a spare.
Deatheturtle
Make sure you keep it clean. Grease fires are no joke.
Stock-Holiday1428
Burn in and start cooking. Clean often and keep it simple. Looks like you are a planner since you perfectly planned that the box would just barely fit into the Subie. Don’t overthink BBQ.
5GUltraSloth
Clean it out a couple times a year, keep it generally dry, you don’t need a fancy pellet bucket and remember you have a drip bucket.
Chyort1
Do the initial burn off per directions, let it cool down then pull thr grates and broiler plate back out, if it looks clean use pam or some other cooking spray and lightly coat the inside the broiler plate the sear grate the racks and inside of the cooker turn it to 350 and heat it up, let cook for 30 min to an hour. First cook pork butt is great, the meat is very forgiving, hard to over season and there are a few thousand recipes online. Heygrillhey.com and on youtube has a lot of other recipies with detailed steps for cooks.
TheRealKishkumen
Cook to temp – however long that is
NTPC4
Start with either a whole chicken cooked hot and fast at ~425, or a pork butt (bone-in), lower and slower at ~275. Avoid getting lured into cooking at too low a temperature. Enjoy!
Heel_Paul
You will mess up but don’t worry everyone does.
bobbywake61
Use liners and foil on your grease pan for easier cleanup.
game_cook420
Clean out the ash after any 5+ hour burn, every other or maybe even every third cook for anything less, more often is more better.
Truck_Embarrassed
I clean mine before every cook. Buy a shop vac. I hear Home Depot has cheap ones. I bought a small cheap one for the sole purpose of cleaning my smoker. And occasionally a mosquito or fly. Also invest in a smoke tube for cold smoking. Not sure how low yours goes but mine bottoms out at 165. Smoke tube is perfect for cheeses and cured meats. I also occasionally run my smoker with the additional smoke tube if I’m going hot. I love my Traeger but it seems the hotter you go the less smoke you get.
16 Comments
Very first thing you should do is register your new smoker with pitboss to get that 5 year warranty
Register for warranty and make sure you do a good burn off
Smoke everything. it is the best way to learn. buy cheap meat, expensive meat, chicken, pork, turkey, salmon, vegetables everything. just smoke it. you will learn how your grill works and it will give you better instincts when it comes to just cooking.
Edit: Also take everything you learn online with a grain of salt. most of the time it works good but there is always 10 different ways to do something.
there’s lots & lots of youtube videos to help you with this
the pit boss app sucks. I like bear mountain pellets best but other than thst have fun. its like sex for the first time, its gonna be good but gets even better every time and no one can really teach you.
Go ahead and buy another igniter to have on hand if it didn’t come with a spare.
Make sure you keep it clean. Grease fires are no joke.
Burn in and start cooking. Clean often and keep it simple. Looks like you are a planner since you perfectly planned that the box would just barely fit into the Subie. Don’t overthink BBQ.
Clean it out a couple times a year, keep it generally dry, you don’t need a fancy pellet bucket and remember you have a drip bucket.
Do the initial burn off per directions, let it cool down then pull thr grates and broiler plate back out, if it looks clean use pam or some other cooking spray and lightly coat the inside the broiler plate the sear grate the racks and inside of the cooker turn it to 350 and heat it up, let cook for 30 min to an hour. First cook pork butt is great, the meat is very forgiving, hard to over season and there are a few thousand recipes online. Heygrillhey.com and on youtube has a lot of other recipies with detailed steps for cooks.
Cook to temp – however long that is
Start with either a whole chicken cooked hot and fast at ~425, or a pork butt (bone-in), lower and slower at ~275. Avoid getting lured into cooking at too low a temperature. Enjoy!
You will mess up but don’t worry everyone does.
Use liners and foil on your grease pan for easier cleanup.
Clean out the ash after any 5+ hour burn, every other or maybe even every third cook for anything less, more often is more better.
I clean mine before every cook. Buy a shop vac. I hear Home Depot has cheap ones. I bought a small cheap one for the sole purpose of cleaning my smoker. And occasionally a mosquito or fly. Also invest in a smoke tube for cold smoking. Not sure how low yours goes but mine bottoms out at 165. Smoke tube is perfect for cheeses and cured meats. I also occasionally run my smoker with the additional smoke tube if I’m going hot. I love my Traeger but it seems the hotter you go the less smoke you get.