I bought a pit boss Platinum Laredo from Walmart last week. I'm wondering if either I had too high of expectations and or if my pellet smoker isn't working properly. I've had gas BBQ, electric smokers, and still have a Weber charcoal. I had heard how great pellet smokers / grills are from others in the past and read all the literature on them and thought I could get the convenience of a gas bbq & electric smoker in one, with the smoke ring of charcoal. Meaning it could smoke low and slow unsupervised and then if I wanted be able to crank up the heat and sear / grill.
What I've found so far, is this unit takes 10 minutes just to preheat? / Start generating smoke. Then another 20 minutes to get to 225 or so.
Then if I want to crank it up to 500 it's like 45 minutes to a hour, literally...
Is this the standard amount of time for pellet smoker / grills?
I'm severely disappointed in the amount of time it is taking.
Thanks
Michael