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Originally Posted by pnoon
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Word of warning, the PTG is deceptively larger looking than it actually is. IIRC, cook surface is only about 12" x 15" and you only get about 5-1/2" vertically to put something in, which isn't enough room to stand up a rack of ribs or a chicken, you might even have trouble cramming a 7+lb bone in pork shoulder in there and I'm not even sure they'll hold a complete rack of spare ribs. For beef ribs, half to 1/3 rack is all you'll get in there. The short distance between the pellet cup and the grate can also cause some hot spots. Topping off all of that, it only holds a few hours of pellets too. To me, this thing is really more like a tailgate grill for cut up chicken, hamburgers and sausages, and not a smoker. Imagine trying to cook something inside your 40-count traveldor, that's about all the space you get with this, because you can't go all the way to the edges of the grate.
IMO, probably better off paying $100 more for the Jr. or the Lil' Texas, they hold more, have the vertical height to put taller things in, distribute heat evenly and hold a good 8-12 hours of pellets.
01-29-2014, 10:09 AM
Re: Apartment sized griller/smoker?
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