Hi all. I wanted to try some beef jerky on my Traeger this weekend and from everything I've read here, I need to cook it between 170-180 degrees. In order to do this on my Pellet Pro 34, I'd need to use the smoke setting.
However every time I use this setting, all I get is ugly white smoke and I don't think I want to cook jerky in that. Am I missing something / doing something incorrectly or is this just the nature of these 1st generation Traegers?
You do get more white smoke, but in my experience this isn't as bitter/creosote tasting off of a pellet grill like it would be on most other cookers. About all you can do is just give it a try. If you have an older Traeger, you might be able to tweak P-settings to keep temps closer to what you want to if it strays. Be watchful for a flameout if you go too high on the setting though. You should be able to Google for details.
My Traeger is about 9 years old and I just adjusted the P-setting a little when I did jerky on mine. Like glitchy said, dont go two much or it will burn out. I think I only went one or two points. It actually turned out pretty good!
My opinion is that the "Smoke" setting should really be a "Start" setting. Generally speaking, when I want to smoke something at low temp I run the 180 setting. If I want to add more smoke then I add a smoke tube with it.
The "Smoke" setting has way too much variation in it for my taste.
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