Customer Reviews for Traeger Tailgater 20 Pellet Grill in Black

AMAZING.. i like my food med well done. this grill cooks to choice WITHOUT over charing and the burgers steaks and chicken is med will and STILL VERY JUICY.. i dont know how, (kinda dont care) lol, but this pellet grill seals & locks in juices like no other grill i have ever heard of

for me, this is a new dimension of great bbq.

It works pretty good. Can't get the meat thermometer to work though. It's brain is kind of wonky.

This Traeger grill has been so much fun to cook on. It’s simple to use, and I especially like the fact that it has digital temperature control. I had a charcoal smoker, but for me it took a lot of “babysitting” the temperature. I could never keep it consistent. The Traeger is a great smoker and grill.

My Nephew-in-law and I cooked a 5lb standing rib roast in his Traeger Tailgater. It was his first time cooking that kind of meat in it. It was my first experience with Traeger. The roast came out beautiful! It came out medium well instead of ideal because we had the following challenges. 1. Temperature fluctuated constantly from 5 to 20 degrees below setting. As a result we had to guess our cook time. 2. When we did a therm check on the roast it came out correct but resting cooked it more. For a Choice 5lb standing rib roast we will shorten timing down on our next roast. The flavor and tenderness of the medium well roast was still enjoyable. The next day we cooked hamburgers and hot dogs on the Traeger. Perfect! I was so impressed that I'm retiring my Weber.

Bought ... assembled ... pre burned ... and started smoking within 3hrs of buying . First attempt ...CHICKEN & RIBS !!! dry rubbed ... 7hrs @ 225 F using signature pellets ............. ....SPECTACULAR !! For the people who say it won't ignite and the fan wouldn't work .... come on be honest ... you missed the little tiny power button at the back !!

I’ve had my Junior Elite for seven years now. Has worked flawlessly since the day I bought it. I love to cook ribs, brisket, pulled pork and some chicken recipes also. Trying to get enough money to buy another Traeger. Something a little bigger. It’s been the best Investment I have ever made. Buy one I guarantee you’ll be happy.

Had for three years. Had low temp issue and they sent me a new temp prob. Still had issues. Now high heat issues. Turn on smoke and it goes to 350. Have to keep opening lid just to get temp down. Won’t hold at 180. Will call them but just think I got a lemon

The grill was easy to assemble and folds up nicely to to use other places. The instruction were easy to understand how to use the smoker and prepare the food. I have had it for little over a month.

Love this grill for portability. Stows away nicely in our RV storage. Flaw one I find is, the handles are not to be desired. Come on Traeger, you can do better than cheap plastic handles that feel like they will snap any minute. Flaw number 2 is the folding legs are a pain folding and unfolding. Spring assist, easy stow away legs would be nice. Food taste awesome from this grill, love the new controller.

The grill/smoker wasn’t too hard to assemble. Love the end product!!

It’s a sturdy little Traeger and I’ve already hauled it to a couple bbq’s. Plan on taking it camping. It holds its temp well and folds up nicely! Bigger to pack than the other camping Traeger’s but that means more smoked goodness so I’m fine with that.

Have had this for 6 months and it does not hold a temperature very well at all. It fluctuates so much and there is no consistency in it messing up anything you try to cook on it, especially trying to figure out cook times. Would not buy this grill at all. I follow everything and the instructions and care to a t!

Wish I had bought this a long time ago. Easier to put together than it looks at first.

Amazing grill! Makes grilling so effortless! My husband loves it! We have made some many different meals with this grill already

I loooooovvvvveee it!

First off the the food that has come off has been very good. The problem is that the pellets did/do not feed properly from the hopper (I've checked and double checked the install of the hopper to ensure it was mounted properly.). This has caused the fire to go out multiple times while cooking and resulted in babysitting the grill to ensure the pellets continued to feed. Even doing this did not prevent the issue as walking away for 15 minutes could result in the fire going out. The most recent time I used the grill the pellets again did not feed properly and the fire went out. Unfortunately; while trying to restart the grill too many pellets were feed into the fire box. This caused a fire inside the grill area which burned hot enough to bake off the black paint. The grill should be salvageable after cleaning and sandblasting the effected areas off paint and repainting with high heat paint.

It wont maintain low temps for smoking. It always creeps up to around 220 even when it is set on 165. There is no P adjustment like on the older models to slow the feed down. I have contacted traeger and they sent me a new temp prob. It did nothing to fix my problems. I spent the money and bought a traeger because i thought i was paying for quality. Don't buy this overpriced piece of crap.

I have read some reviews it says it doesn’t hold temperature I am not experiencing that same thing. I have a brisket in right now set the temperature at 215 and it has been holding plus or minus 2Degrees. 3rd time using it and its held true every time. Love it

So far so good. The meats we have grilled have been so deliciously smoked and perfect temp every time. We used to have a smoker that wood burning and just such a hassle to keep the temps low. This Traeger grill..you set the temp and forget it!! Best purchase we have made in 2020.

Traeger always succeeds with making great grills. Only concern would be the legs, a bit cumbersome to fold up and down. But all things considered a great portable traeger.

Shuts off constantly in the middle of cooking regardless if it was just cleaned out. Worked for the first year great so I take it the components just wear down. Not worth the money.

I have had this grill for about 8 months now. I have owned a wide variety in pellet grills. I have two Scouts, which I struggled to maintain a temp with. If I just went to use those for grilling and baking, it would be fine but smoking I couldn't keep a good temp in colder outdoor temps However, this is a review on the tailgater, and for the price and portability there IS NOT a better grill than this one. I can set this on smoke while I am out hunting, or just simply away from the grill for 6 plus hours. You dont EVER have to worry about temperature fluctuations with this grill. Just set the temp, walk away and come home to 5 star food. I have BAKED anything from cinnamon rolls, corn bread, cakes, to smoking anything from fish, to wild wild game, beef, bison ect.. If you are going to read any reviews, dont let ANY negative reviews push you away. Like i said, this is the 5th pellet grill that I have added to my collection. I have a pit boss, 2 scouts, Pro Series 34, Pro Series 22. My father is a huge Bradley vertical smoker fan, I let him barrow this grill for the day to do a brisket. He had nothing but POSITIVE things to say about this. If I could change anything on this grill, my only improvement would be to make the hopper a little steeper to help with the occasional bridging in pellets, and adding a pellet drop out door for ease of changing pellets. I will say, I have NEVER in four years needed to order a single part of my Traegers. After cooking with mine, three of my family members went out and purchased them as well. BUT, for the price point this grill is, you cannot expect everything to be the way you want it! DO NOT HESITATE IN GETTING THIS GRILL.

Wouldn’t heat up at all. Returning it.

I bought this grill a year ago. Works fine for high temp burgers and chicken. Try to do anything low and slow and it will fail. Combustion chamber will over fill and shutdown. Once had the barrel so hot it bubbles out during a pellet overfill and I needed a fire extinguisher for the event to keep the deck from burning down. Happened again today during a brisket. I’m done with the product. Terrible design. Simply not big enough to properly regulate temperature and combustion chamber doesn’t work properly.

I picked this grill up as a floor model for 275.00 thinking I was getting a great deal. It did not come with the drip tray and I had to contact traeger to get a new red probe before even using it. Installed probe and it started working but temperature fluctuations were all over the place, bought a new probe myself and grill was still sitting operating well above set temp(80 degrees off) I changed the “p” setting...nothing works. My “deal” was not worth it.