Top 9 Pellet Smokers Reviewed 2022

Traeger’s Pro Series of pellet grills are among the best on the market, and the Pro 575 is no exception. This pellet grill is versatile enough to allow you to smoke, grill, bake, barbecue, and more, all in this single unit. 

Traeger’s pellet smokers were designed with the idea of creating a genuine but mild wood-fired taste in your food. Its variable-speed fan creates a smoky vortex inside the barrel, helping to infuse your food with flavor, and its natural airflow helps encourage convection. 

With 575 square inches of cooking space, you can cook a large meal for your family or backyard gatherings. It will cook five racks of ribs, up to 24 hamburgers, and even four chickens. Arranged correctly, you can cook a combination of all of these. 

If you want to keep your food warm after it’s finished cooking, Traeger’s Pro 575 has a “keep warm” mode that’s excellent for gatherings where people graze while socializing.

If you’re looking for an affordable but high-quality pellet smoker, Camp Chef’s SmokePro might serve you well. With six functions in one pellet smoker, all you have to do is choose your cooking method, arrange your food, and let the smoker do the rest.

It has a meat probe included, so even though this is more of a budget pellet smoker, you have an easy way to check your meat’s temperature as it cooks. Also, the 811 square inches of cooking space mean you can smoke up a lot of food for a party.

Camp Chef calls this a slide smoker because it has a “grill knob” on the side. If you turn the knob, it slides the heat shield to one side, exposing the grate to the burn pot and turning your smoker into a grill. The drip tray has slits in it to help expose the meat to more direct heat.

Grilla Grills Silverbac pellet grill stays cool enough to smoke your food wonderfully, but is also capable of getting hot enough for searing. Besides smoking and searing, you can broil, bake, roast, grill, and more with this pellet grill.

The Silverbac pellet grill has a dual-mode PID controller, allowing you to control both the smoker’s temperature and the amount of smoke your food gets. It also has a double-walled barrel to protect against cool temperatures while maintaining fuel efficiency.

Its 500-degree Fahrenheit temperature setting is excellent for pizza, which you may not think of putting in a smoker or on a grill, but can add a hint of unique flavor. Its 692 square inches of cooking space give you the ability to cook massive cuts of meat.

You can get a rack extension that will expand that space to a whopping 877 square inches.

Z Grills manufactures fully automated, extremely versatile wood pellet grills, including this one. While many pellet smokers have six functions, the ZPG 450A has eight functions, allowing you to smoke, grill, barbecue, sear, char-grill, bake, roast, and even braise your meat to your taste.

Its automation allows you to set the temperature at which you want to cook and let it do its thing. If you’re having a small party or even just cooking for your family, you can go and take care of other things while the ZPG 450A is cooking your food.

It also comes at a remarkably affordable price for all the technology it employs and the quality of its cooking.

This pellet smoker is smaller than others, with just 450 square inches of cooking space and less for grilling. It will work for gatherings, but you’ll have a more challenging time with large parties than you will with larger smokers. Nevertheless, you get excellently cooked meat with this smoker.

Camp Chef is one of the more well-known brands of pellet smokers and grills, and its Woodwind series lives up to that reputation. The Woodwind 24-inch WiFi pellet grill comes with four meat probes and four ports for those probes, allowing you to monitor a lot of food all at once.

Like their SmokePro SG model, the Woodwind 24-inch has a slide-and-grill feature, which allows you to grill directly over a flame at up to 650 degrees. Also, with its digital PID controller, you can specify the level of smoke you want getting into your food in smoking mode.

If you’re looking for space, you get 811 square inches of cooking space, divided into 429 square inches on the lower rack and 382 square inches on the upper rack. It’s great for large family cookouts in the summer.

The Woodwind also comes in a 36-inch model, so if that’s not enough cooking space for you, you can opt for the larger model and get a whopping 1,236 square inches of cooking area.

Memphis Grills makes some high-end pellet smokers, so they’re more expensive than others on the market. However, their quality lives up to their price and makes these grills well worth the expense. With the Elite Wood Fire pellet grill, you can smoke, bake, grill, sear, and more at temperatures ranging from 180 degrees to 700 degrees.

Its 24-pound hopper offers up to 62 hours of cook time, compared to other pellet smokers that offer just 15-30 hours of cook time due to the smaller hoppers. Its stainless steel construction gives it the durability it needs to withstand such high temperatures and long cooking times.

The Elite Wood Fire pellet grill is a built-in grill, so you’ll need somewhere to install it. Memphis Grills also sells its own pellets, which come in six different flavors, so if you’re looking for cooking pellets that are 100% compatible with this grill, you have your pick.

The 1000D is Z Grills’ top-of-the-line pellet smoker, so if you’re looking for something high-quality from a top-rated brand that doesn’t come with an eye-popping price tag, take a look at the 1000D.

Like its siblings, it can cook your food eight ways, including smoking, baking, grilling, roasting, barbecuing, and more, making it one of the most versatile pellet grills on the market. It has an electronic auto-start mechanism and a waste-oil collector for quick and easy startup and cleaning.

It uses heavy-duty stainless steel construction, along with multiple grates to give you over 1,000 square inches of cooking surface. You can cook large racks of ribs, tons of burgers and hot dogs, and even do things like smoke corn and other veggies where smoke gives them a little kick.

Maybe you want something you can take with you somewhere, or you just don’t want a larger pellet smoker. Green Mountain’s Davy Crockett pellet grill fits that bill. Its foldable construction and low weight mean you can put it in the bed of your pickup or even in your car’s trunk.

Despite how small it is, the Davy Crockett has a thermal sensor to monitor temperature, a meat probe, and a unique pointed rack for ribs. It may not have the cooking space of most pellet smokers, but you can still cook two racks of ribs or up to six steaks in it.

This is an electric smoker, so you can just plug it into a standard outdoor wall outlet at home. However, if you’re on the go, you can use a 12-volt plug to connect it to your car. You can even use alligator clips to connect it directly to your car’s battery if necessary.

It’s also WiFi-enabled so you can control it with your cell phone no matter where you are. This is an excellent little grill for tailgating, home barbecuing, and small family gatherings with its own utensil tray.

The Ironwood 885 pellet smoker from Traeger is so technologically advanced it works with Amazon’s Alexa, meaning you can give it voice commands. It also has WiFi technology and a phone app for controlling things remotely. You can even use your phone to create and store custom cook cycles, which you can then send to this pellet smoker.

It also has a built-in sensor to tell you when you’re running low on pellets. That way, you never run out of them, especially in the middle of cooking.

You can cook food quickly at high heat or slowly at low heat, depending on the flavor and tenderness you desire. Like its Traeger cousins, you can smoke, grill, bake, roast, braise, and barbecue. It’s not as versatile as a few other high-end pellet smokers, but you get plenty of choices with it.