What sort of grill needs a firmware update lol
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To get the temperature probe data on your phone so that you don't have to repeatedly get up to check it. It's particularly useful for turkey, where the difference between moist and horribly dry white meat is only 5-10 degrees.
I've got a Bluetooth temp probe set. They work a treat. And I totally forgot to even use them when I got smoked a salmon and chicken wings for Canada Day.
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To get the temperature probe data on your phone so that you don't have to repeatedly get up to check it. It's particularly useful for turkey, where the difference between moist and horribly dry white meat is only 5-10 degrees.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Why not just buy a wifi probe instead of an entire grill? I'd rather a tiny thing stop working than being unable to use my grill at all because it's jammed with too much tech.
Truly do they do anything else worth it? I'm a plain charcoal grill person, so never wanted or looked into anything beyond that.
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There was a silly little movie in the 80's called "Maximum Overdrive", written and directed by Stephen King.
In it Aliens somehow cause machines to 'turn' on human beings and attack us.
They could remake that movie now but instead of Aliens causing the machines to attack people, it could be malicious 'hackers' that do it, and it would be more believable that the original film.
*Brought to you by Samsung.
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I feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.
The original story was written before the Internet and so before hackers even existed. One of Stephen King's cocaine fever dreams iirc.
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Why not just buy a wifi probe instead of an entire grill? I'd rather a tiny thing stop working than being unable to use my grill at all because it's jammed with too much tech.
Truly do they do anything else worth it? I'm a plain charcoal grill person, so never wanted or looked into anything beyond that.
All I can think of is reminders to fill the pellet bin. On balance I don't think that's worth it
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
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I've got a Bluetooth temp probe set. They work a treat. And I totally forgot to even use them when I got smoked a salmon and chicken wings for Canada Day.
I've got a bluetooth temp probe set too. I use it in my smoker. I'm not trusting that expensive piece of meat to the whims of the gods. I need to know what the temperature of the meat is and when it hit's the target temps.
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A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.
There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.
While I agree that real charcoal is superior in every way, a good grill and the person running it needs to be able to control the temperature while cooking. It might be just fine to burn those hot dogs or hamburger patties, but if I want to roast a potato or an onion, I need to be able to control the heat to something less than the surface of the sun.
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
Yesterday my WIFI air purifier crashed after changing the speed with the app and turned itself off and even caused the Ethernet switch to crash and hang.
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I've got a bluetooth temp probe set too. I use it in my smoker. I'm not trusting that expensive piece of meat to the whims of the gods. I need to know what the temperature of the meat is and when it hit's the target temps.
TBF, I absolutely should have used them, but I was cooking for 25 people, and honestly totally forgot about them. I was rushing about with the BBQ, into the kitchen switching out cooked pizza for uncooked and trying to catch a sip of beer in between all that.... As a result the salmon came out amazing, slow smoked at 60° for 3 hours because I totally forgot about it until the wife would occasionally say: the smoker's not smoking!
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I feel like hackers would always have been more believable than aliens.
You can't really (remotely) hack a machine that doesn't have wireless capabilities or computer chips in them.
In the movie it was just regular, non electronic machines like (pre-computerized) diesel trucks and lawnmowers etc.
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I wouldn’t use it, but if you want one with software then there’s nothing wrong with it updating.
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Realistically they probably didn't use the traeger until the 4th, so they were about a year behind on "updates"
Unless you're my dad, then he finds any excuses he can to use his traeger. The thing can smoke a damn good brisket, software updates be damned!
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
I have a Masterbuilt that has optional firmware updates sometimes, nothing mandatory and certainly nothing automatic. It's a gravity fed charcoal grill that works like a computer controlled forced air rocket stove. Gets up to 700 degs from cold in 10 mins if I want or hold 225 for the rest of time as long as I keep feeding charcoal into the hopper and emptying the ash bin. The computer is adding actual value.
No soggy pellets, no weird feeding issues, the biggest problem I've had with it was the hatch sensors all going out over time, but once I jumped the circuit past them it worked fine again to this very day, going on six years now.
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My grill is a disposable item I buy one every four or five years.
None of my go to devices are internet connected. Not my TV screens. Not my toothbrush. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.
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A grill should run on charcoal. It needs to get very hot and that's literally it.
There's a universe where I attach some electronic controller with a PID loop or something to a smoker, to maintain consistent temperatures via damper control. I'm not buying that off the shelf built into the machine though.
You're describing the gravity fed charcoal grills from masterbuilt and I love mine. Especially when I toss in a cast iron pan full of bacon and run it at 450 for half an hour.
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I'm an IT nerd but they could not pay me to buy a grill that requires software updates. What a bunch of nonsense.
Sending a temp updates to your phone so you don't have to be standing near it the whole time is a nice feature.
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I will never need a wifi connected kitchen appliance. A grill fits that category. My grill is a disposable item I buy one every four or five years.
None of my go to devices are internet connected. Not my TV screens. Not my toothbrush. My daily driver is a 2009 Toyota. Its great. No screens and easy to fix.
Just out of curiosity... What are you doing to your grill that you need a new one every few years? Mine is prob. 10 years old and still no reason in sight to replace it.
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I love my charcoal grill
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Forwarded this to someone at Traeger. Will let you know if I hear back
