Unless you have primitive taste buds or haven’t yet tasted smoked meat, you hate gas grills.Ī pellet grill is a superb alternative to a coal-fired kitchen range. Flavorįlavor is the foremost thought that kicks in when you think of a pellet grill.
Recently, recteq has focused its attention on consistency and efficiency as well. Recteq’s vision of a pellet grill can be summed up in three words: flavor, convenience, and versatility. Recteq, as a brainchild of Ray and Ron, is all about quality and dependability. The idea behind recteq was to provide customers with high-quality grills at competitive prices and revive old-school customer service. They met in 1991, beginning a friendship and partnership spanning over three decades. Ray Carnes and Ron Cundy, two ex-vacuum cleaner salesmen, founded recteq in 2009. Recteq Brand History – Quickly Understand Recteq Emergence in Grilling Industry More on this later, but all of this translates to a superior owner experience.īut recteq grills cost you a steep price, so much so that you’re left pondering: are they worth spending three or, in some cases, four figures for? Does an alternative brand offer the same quality at a low price? If you’re too shy to ask a question yourself, there is a high chance that someone has already asked it for you. Recteq fans at these forums are very cooperative should a problem arise. Besides social media and recteq’s official support, many unofficial but active recteq grills forums exist. Recteq has quite a loyal fanbase, who always sings its praises from the top of the mountains. Their matchless construction, paired with dedicated customer support, is giving nightmares to other pellet grill manufacturers, especially Traeger, who has dominated the market as once dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Recteq grills are known for quality, reliability, and integrity. So there was still a lot of room for them to work in the built-in arena and be the best value option.Recteq, as a pellet grill manufacturer, is popular among connoisseurs and beginners alike. Memphis and Coyote do and I think they both start around 3X the price of the new RecTeq. Only a couple companies that I've really noticed even seem to make built in pellet grills. Maybe it wouldn't even make much difference at all in durability. Maybe it would have cost them way more than that to use 304. Sometimes a couple extra bills are justifiable when you can see it in the specs. If someone builds an outdoor kitchen around it and it doesn't hold up well, it's probably going to draw more frustration and buyer criticism that a grill on a cart that shows wear early. I just wondered and shared my questions of if it would have been a better choice to make the barrel/cook box from 304 instead of 430, even if it raised the cost a little. Targeting a built-in is a new area for RecTeq. I've had numerous pellet grills that cost under $800, many of them were pretty nice smokers. Not because it's comparable with a MAK on construction quality, because it's a nice offering with features I like such as a rear exhaust, enclosed grease collection, stainless grates, etc. I did say I might have considered the RecTeq if it was out a year ago. It would sort of like comparing a Weber Genesis to a DCS or FireMagic.
Just because I own a MAK doesn't mean I'm trying to compare any of the pellet grills regularly discussed here (SmokeFire, CampChef, RecTec, etc.) to one. I am hopeful they have learned and will continue to improve the SmokeFire grill.Ĭlick to expand.With the "Again, a Recteq is no MAK", I do feel like that's directed back at me? It would have been worth $200 more to have used stainless and/or thicker metal in some high-stress places. I wish Weber had paired their innovative design features on the SmokeFire with Recteq's level of construction. It is just a strong entry in the mid-market. I understand that Recteq uses 304 in some less obvious places as well. Some others I have seen do not look nearly as robust. It stains, but I have no worry about it rusting out. My grates clean up very nicely and are holding up perfectly. I think it is a compromise that has to be accepted in middle market grills, but I give Rec Tec credit for the 304 they do use. I have used Weber 430 grates and never had any problem with them.
It has a few pits in it that maybe wouldn't have happened if it had been 304 stainless. (A nice veneer of seasoning probably helps with that!) The side tray that has the electronics under it is definitely magnetic. The stainless on the barrel seems to be holding up fine. I have a Rec Tec (before the name change) RT-700.
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