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1) Remember, it will take longer for food to cook when it’s cold, windy or wet outside. Rule of
thumb: add 20 minutes cooking time per pound for every 5 degrees BELOW 45 degrees F.
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2) Every time you open the lid to your grill, you loose the heat in the cooking chamber. Add at least
15 minutes extra cooking time each time you check your meat on the grill.
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3) In winter, move your grill to an area that is out of the wind and cold. However, NEVER operate
your grill in an unventilated area!
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4) Purchase a NEW Traeger Pellet Caddy to keep your pellets nice and dry!
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5) Place an outdoor thermometer close to the area where you have your grill. It will help you keep
track of the outside air temperature and help you determine how long it will take your food to cook.
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6) When cooking in cold weather, it’s best to allow your grill to heat-up on a high temperature
setting for at least 20 minutes before you place the food on the grill. You can always turn down the
grill temperature when you begin cooking.

1) The hotter it is outside, the faster food will cook on your grill. If you are long-term cooking, you
may want to cook your food at a lower temperature setting.
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2) Because food will cook faster, it’s important to use a high-quality meat thermometer or instant
reading thermometer to monitor internal meat temperatures. This will help prevent over cooking
your meat and drying it out.
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3) Even in hot weather, you still want to cook with the lid to your Traeger grill CLOSED.
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4) In hot weather, make sure you defrost meat IN THE REFRIGERATOR! Food borne bacteria
rapidly multiply in hot weather and can easily cause food to spoil, ruining your cookout.
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5) The Food Safety Rule of Thumb is: "Keep hot foods hot-above 140 degrees F- and cold foods
cold-below 37 degrees F.
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6) Cooked food and salads should not be left out in the heat for more than an hour. BETTER YET---
fill a deep tray or casserole dish with ice and keep salads-particularly potato or mayonnaise based
salads on ice.
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7) Never use the same cutting board for cooked meat that you used to prepare raw meat, unless
you’ve thoroughly washed it in hot, soapy water before using again. The same thing holds true with
knives and cooking utensils.
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8) You can keep foods hot by wrapping them in foil and then placing them in an insulated cooler.
Stuff wadded-up newspaper around the foil wrapped food. This will keep your food hot for a good
three to four hours.

    Pellets
Traeger brand barbecue pellets are no larger than the eraser on the end of a pencil. People who
see them for the first time think they look like rabbit food, but there is nothing small about the heat
energy in a barbecue pellet.
Over 8500 BTU's per pound! Wood pellets are not new, they have been around for a long time
used in industrial, commercial, and residential heating appliances and applications. There are
over 100 fully operational pellet mills in the United States.     Traeger Industries was the first
company to use them for cooking. Only the finest hardwood raw materials are sourced from all
over the country. The pure, raw material (sawdust) is then pulverized with hammer mills and
dried. The dried material is then processed under heat and pressure. Lignin, which is the natural
glue which holds plant fiber together, softens above 100 degrees Celsius, permitting the material
to change shape. The hot lignin then acts like a glue to bond the pellet together. Pelleting
employs a hard steel die which rotates against rollers forcing the material through the die with
pressures of over 10,000 PSI. As the pellet is forced through the die it is sheared off at the
specified length, cooled, screened, and bagged into 10 or 40 lb bags.
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General specifications for barbecue pellets are: 100% hardwood, 1" long or less in length, 1/4"
diameter, less than 2% ash content, less than 2% fines, 10% moisture content, 8500 BTU's per
lb, and about 40 lbs per cubic ft. density.
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Hickory and Mesquite pellets are the most popular, however many of our customers are now
using fruit woods for specialty smoking and gourmet cooking.
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The full line of pellets include:
Alder      Apple       Black Walnut    Cherry     Hazelnut     Hickory      Maple
    Mesquite          Oak           Pecan