Macpheescott0866
New member
Hi all,
I had been looking forward to getting a pellet grill for some time. I liked the design of the Weber, but I wasn’t sure at the $1,100 price point. I walked into a local Home Depot a few weeks back, and saw that they had three EX4s on sale (slow moving stock) for $799, so that made my decision that much easier.
I picked it up, and never had any issues for the first couple of cooks, but yesterday when I went to use the grill I noticed that it seemed to be smoking longer than normal on start up. When I opened the cover, the smoke was billowing out so heavy that you couldn’t even see inside the grill. I shut it down and vacuumed it out (had only manually steered ash into ash/grease tray previously), but when I tried to light it up, I got nothing. The pot is full of pellets now, so I have to clean it out, and then I want to give everything a good cleaning before trying to start it back up.
It’s annoying to have this happen on my third time using, but this is a completely different beast from the old gas bbq, and its going to take some time to get the kinks worked out.
The one thing that impressed me most about the reviews of this grill, is that even with people that had problems with it quite often gave 4-5 stars, just because of the support that Weber provides.
Even with the initial hiccups, I’m looking forward to using this grill more, and learning the little tricks.
Stay safe everyone
Scott
I had been looking forward to getting a pellet grill for some time. I liked the design of the Weber, but I wasn’t sure at the $1,100 price point. I walked into a local Home Depot a few weeks back, and saw that they had three EX4s on sale (slow moving stock) for $799, so that made my decision that much easier.
I picked it up, and never had any issues for the first couple of cooks, but yesterday when I went to use the grill I noticed that it seemed to be smoking longer than normal on start up. When I opened the cover, the smoke was billowing out so heavy that you couldn’t even see inside the grill. I shut it down and vacuumed it out (had only manually steered ash into ash/grease tray previously), but when I tried to light it up, I got nothing. The pot is full of pellets now, so I have to clean it out, and then I want to give everything a good cleaning before trying to start it back up.
It’s annoying to have this happen on my third time using, but this is a completely different beast from the old gas bbq, and its going to take some time to get the kinks worked out.
The one thing that impressed me most about the reviews of this grill, is that even with people that had problems with it quite often gave 4-5 stars, just because of the support that Weber provides.
Even with the initial hiccups, I’m looking forward to using this grill more, and learning the little tricks.
Stay safe everyone
Scott
, I look forward to learning lots from you.
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, I’ll definitely keep that in mind. 
