Buzz M.
I just bought a Timberline XL
I just bought a Timberline XL. The delivery process (I bought it online from Traeger) was a complete joke. Once it left the warehouse Traeger had no idea where it went or when it would be delivered. I ended up tracking down the shipping company and went and picked it up myself. Had to make about a dozen phone calls to finally find who was actually shipping it. Brand new and using a brand new bag of Traeger pellets, and it won’t hold a steady temperature. Set it at 250 and it fluctuates 20-30 degrees higher and 50 degrees lower. Takes almost double the time that my Green Mountain takes to smoke a brisket. If you open the lid, you’ll immediately loose 30-50 degrees. I love the settings and digital screen. Makes it really easy. If you don’t use super smoke mode, it’s pretty quiet. Lots of options to choose from, and a wide variety of recipes. Im finding that it’s really difficult to go from other smokers to a Traeger. It simply doesn’t cook as simple as the others. I would say at this point that it is well built. Took me a couple of hours with my son’s help to put it together. It came with wireless thermostats but they haven’t worked. I set them up on Bluetooth but they weren’t even close to measuring the right temp. I finally pulled them out and just used a digital thermometer.