My several years old and discontinued Quisinart pellet grill bit the dust electronically in a thunderstorm after the power flashed off and on several times. (My bad for leaving it plugged in)
Now on order a Recteq 1200 dual fire. I hope to get this week for some cooking his Easter weekend. We really enjoy steaks that are reverse seared and I think this unit will do this very nicely. I will post some pics after arrival and assembly.
Hello all, long time no post....
It's a long story, but I just haven't had the time or the....whatever...to post much, or really cook much for a while. I've lurked and stayed up on (most) all the important things that have been happening and said a few prayers for those that needed it (Hi, ecowper and jfmorris wives!), just
Outstanding!! As a fellow Recteq owner, I can report that I love my RT700 and it’s been flawless for the five years I’ve owned it. Enjoy! Looking forward to your updates.
RecTeq RT-700 Pellet pooper
Weber Genesis 1000 LX gasser w/Grill Grates
Smokehouse Little Chief II Electric smoker
Thermapen ONE
MK4 Thermapen
ThermoPop
IR Gun
2 Channel Smoke Alarm
Green Mountain Grills Wood Fired Pizza Oven(use it on the RT-700)
Outdoors person(Hunting deer & waterfowl, backpacking)
New Recteq arrived yesterday. Shipped on a pallet to my work so that I could unload with a forklift.
255 lbs. I hauled it home at the end of the day and slid it into the front end loader on my tractor to let it down to garage floor level.
I proceeded to unbox and assemble, I found no printed instructions-had to download a pdf from the web. Assembly took about 1-1/2 hours. Then rolled it out to the cooking porch on the back of my garage. Added a large bag of pellets and did a 400 deg “burn-in” on both sides for 1 hr. It held very steady temps after getting heated up. While waiting, I did the WiFi connection to my internet and the Recteq app. The shutdown process was much faster than my previous grill. Only takes about 6 minutes.
This unit is very heavy and appears well built, went together very well. I am looking forward to cooking on this.
So an update - Saturday early AM Easter weekend. Severe thunderstorms woke us up at 2:30. Power failure at 5.30. Supposed to cook large dinner for the evening meal. Menu includes turkey breast, spiral ham, smoked macaroni and cheese and asparagus.
power came on at 9:00 am. All will be good.
11:00 AM - another power failure. Weather was not stormy at this time
around 1:00 pm we decided to light the stick burner to get the meat on as no idea when the power comes back on.
By 2:00 temps running 300 I put the turkey breast and ham on.
power comes back on around 3
supposed to eat at 5:30.
Start the new Recteq to do macaroni- 350 for an hour. Put it on at 4:00
start other side of Recteq to 275 to finish the turkey breast wrapped in foil with butter. Left the ham in stick burner. At 5:00 the turkey is done. Turn that side off and leave turkey on hold in there, moved macaroni in with turkey. Start asparagus on grill mat on large side of Recteq.
pulled the meal off at 5:30 as planned by being flexible with what was sent our way.
The new recteq preformed as I had hoped. Basically 2 pellet grills in one. Able to run different temps for different foods.
The old stick burner also ran well without needing power.
Just have to be flexible and adapt to what gets thrown at you.
Get 35 amp-hour battery & 700 watt inverter. Mount them in a toolbox for electric outages if you don’t want to use the stick burner. Made one for tailgating that charges via small solar panel. Also use for home outages with our BYB 1200 & BBQ guru for the gravity fed cabinet.
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