I saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/pelletgrills/comments/1uxakx3/wife_sprayed_down_my_traeger_pro_780_with_fire/ a month ago and thought to myself…I should get a fire blanket. so I got a big old fire blanket from amazon that I was hoping would fit over the entire smoker if I ever had a fire.
noticed smoke coming from the hopper as I was shutting down 2 nights ago and deployed the blanket. Worked amazing, smothered the fire before it got going (as you can see in the second picture). I did unplug immediately, because the cooldown fans were fanning the flames.
Just in case anybody's wondering you need to fully cover the exhaust for it to smother itself.
Be safe.
by sparkus1
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My neighbor down the street used to grill in his garage. He learned a very hard lesson.
Harbor Freight welding blanket. Helps keep smooth temps and saves pellets when smoking in cold winter temps, would work as a fire blanket as well
I learned to prevent back burn like that by lowering the temp to 200 a few minutes before initiating shutdown.
My $6 moving blanket works great.
Sure, better than nothing, but this is a 1 out of 100 solution, where moving it away from the house is 100 out of 100 solution.
Just move it away from the house ffs. It’s not worth it and your fire blanket is not guaranteed to prevent your balcony from starting on fire
Fire pot is burnt out, I have a carport attached to my house I keep a towel on hand I wet it wrap it around the exhaust and smother it
I have a couple garden hoses around my house.
You know what has never happened to my lone star? A hopper fire. And even if It did happen it isn’t getting through 1/4″ steel or even the 16ga hopper.
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We have this hanging by our stove. I have an extra one next to the smoker. But I think you got an issue there bud. Is your pot full of ash or blocked up? The shut down mode burns all pellets in box, but seems your air came back for some reason.
Just bought a pair at Costco today!
Pellet grills are set and forget until it isn’t
Any type of cooking apparatus on a porch is considered “indoors” as far as safety goes. The entire porch area is sharing common walls, ceiling and attic space as the rest of the house.
The safety of outdoor cooking equipment is not intended to be used indoors. Open fire cooking, either pellets in a little pot using electricity, propane/ natural gas, or sticks in an offset, will be dangerous. Between flare ups or busted gas lines or auger malfunctions, something can happen to anyone. Just move it away from the house. Grills usually have wheels, that’s not for decoration. I have seen hundreds of people lose their homes and some lose their pets and loved ones due to cooking accidents.
I am a firefighter and have been serving for over two decades. Almost every single person who has a fire says something like, “I never thought it would be a problem. I grilled out there for years”