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Originally Posted by NuclearFart
I don't think its trivial snobbery, its just about the physics behind how the sawdust pellets burn under a plate. The big knock against pellet "grills" is not about smoking, its in the context of actually trying to grill - you can't have high heat and generate lots of blue smoke, because they're inversely proportional. The higher the heat the less good smoke the pellets produce, and vice versa, so you really aren't adding much smoke flavor when grilling. Furthermore the heat from pellet grills is almost exclusively convection, not the radiant heat required for a desirable sear, which is one of the main reasons to grill something in the first place.
Its more accurate to think of them as solid slow cook smokers like a Bradley, rather than a decent grill.
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Interesting, every knock I've read about them is that because they are pellets and not solid pieces of wood the smoke isn't the same, which isn't really my experience with the end product I've had from them. I hadn't considered the radiant vs convection angle, like I said I don't own one. Obviously the manufacturers claim that they can sear.