anyone on OB have a pellet grill from blazn grill works, made in Nebraska? considering their gridiron model wondering if anybody has any experience with them.

I have the large one (Grid Iron maybe). I've had it 5-6 years and it is awesome. I got it for a steal from a guy on Craigslist that only used it once after his wife bought it for him instead of the Weber he wanted. I've cooked up to 8 butts on it at once. You might be able to do more but that's the most I've ever needed to cook. The only issue I've ever had was the ceramic glow rod stopped working on mine. I called up and talked to customer support. I had a new one out later that day and they gave me a work around (what wires to bypass) until my new one came in. The construction is high quality with heavy gauge steel. I don't have any problems maintaining temperature even when it is -10 outside. I use more pellets/hour obviously but it doesn't have any problems keeping up.

I don't have the sear plate option in mine. The few times I've cooked burgers and stuff it's been fine without it but I'm sure if you used it instead of the large heat distribution plate it would get hotter at the grate faster. I don't have the extra insulation plate in the lid of mine either. I've found the standard heavy gauge lid is plenty.

I haven't ever had a hopper or auger issue thankfully. I also never empty my hopper so I probably should have had issues at some point but I haven't. Their wifi unit works great for remotely controlling the temperature. That coupled with my FireBoard makes everything easy peasy allowing my to do plenty of other things instead of tending a fire.

I like pretty much everything about mine. After lots of time outside the powder coat is starting to flake around the edges of the lid so I need to paint it before it rusts. Heck the cover that came with it is still in good shape so they don't cut corners anywhere.

yaterag said:

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I have the large one (Grid Iron maybe). I've had it 5-6 years and it is awesome. I got it for a steal from a guy on Craigslist that only used it once after his wife bought it for him instead of the Weber he wanted. I've cooked up to 8 butts on it at once. You might be able to do more but that's the most I've ever needed to cook. The only issue I've ever had was the ceramic glow rod stopped working on mine. I called up and talked to customer support. I had a new one out later that day and they gave me a work around (what wires to bypass) until my new one came in. The construction is high quality with heavy gauge steel. I don't have any problems maintaining temperature even when it is -10 outside. I use more pellets/hour obviously but it doesn't have any problems keeping up.

I don't have the sear plate option in mine. The few times I've cooked burgers and stuff it's been fine without it but I'm sure if you used it instead of the large heat distribution plate it would get hotter at the grate faster. I don't have the extra insulation plate in the lid of mine either. I've found the standard heavy gauge lid is plenty.

I haven't ever had a hopper or auger issue thankfully. I also never empty my hopper so I probably should have had issues at some point but I haven't. Their wifi unit works great for remotely controlling the temperature. That coupled with my FireBoard makes everything easy peasy allowing my to do plenty of other things instead of tending a fire.

I like pretty much everything about mine. After lots of time outside the powder coat is starting to flake around the edges of the lid so I need to paint it before it rusts. Heck the cover that came with it is still in good shape so they don't cut corners anywhere.

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Thanks for a great reply- very helpful.