Test #3: Need to Cook
Just did test #3 last night. I was not planning on it, but really wanted to cook potatoes and burgers and did not want to swap back to my 180-LV. I did not change many settings at all because I did not have time. Just a simple test turned on and set to 400°. Towards the end I was opening the lid alot for the burgers… turning, cheese, you get the idea. I kept the controller powered after I shutdown to show how much heat the Traeger holds after everything is off.
I was a little disappointed that it could not get up to temp too fast. It took about 20mins to get to 350, I would like to change that. Also the graph got a bit messed up, the white numbers are correct, and the same goes for the last graph. Well… I’m off to go make some code changes and improvements!
Hi Ryan,
Did your burgers and potatoes turn out great? People keep saying that if you are looking you are not Q-ing. Your graph really shows what happens every time you open the lid. Good job. What a great visual tool. Also, I enjoyed seeing how the temperature remains inside after turning everything off. This gives you an idea if you are ahead of schedule for serving your food how long you can keep it inside and have it still stay warm.
If you wanted to just keep items warm, do you have any idea what reasonable low temp you would be able to run without having a flameout?
Thanks for the updates.
Don O
Hey Don, sorry for the delay. The burgers were great!
I think about 160-170 is just above flame out temp to be able to keep things warm. This is about the same as the “smoke” setting on the digi’s