How to Smoke a Brisket

Learn how to smoke a brisket. This guide will teach you how to trim, season, smoke, wrap, temp, rest, and then cut a brisket on a wood-pellet grill.

Can You Sear On a Traeger? Best Tips, Tricks & Sear Grates

Can you sear on a Traeger? Yes! Learn how to sear steaks, burgers, chicken breasts, sausages—plus tips for searing seafood and veggies, too in this guide.

How To Grill Lobster on a Pellet Grill

Our ultimate guide to grilling lobster on a pellet grill. Learn how to grill lobster including preparation, seasoning, grill temperature & cook times.

How to Grill Sausage

Three ways to grill sausage, the ultimate party food. See prep tips, cooking times, recipes, and answers to common questions about grilling sausage.

How to Cook Ribeye Steak

Become a seasoned pitmaster and learn how to cook ribeye steak like a pro from Traeger Grills. Learn best prep, grilling, searing, internal temperatures, and more.

How to Grill Scallops

Learn how to buy scallops, how to season, marinades, and what sauces to serve with it. Plus serving ideas and scallops recipes for your pellet grill.

Smoking Pork Loin: From Start To Finish

Check out Traeger Grill's guide for smoking pork loin like a pro. Learn steps for how to smoke a pork loin, best rubs, marinades, and brines, and tips.

It’s a scientific fact that adding bacon makes everything more delicious. And there’s no better way to add bacon than wrapping an entire cut of meat it.

How to Grill Burgers on a Pellet Grill

Explore Traeger Grill's epic guide on how to grill burgers on a pellet grill. Learn how to make patties, what temp to cook burgers, how to season, and recipes.

Smoking a Turkey 101: Achieving Smoked Turkey

Looking forward to smoking a turkey this Thanksgiving? Follow Traeger's ultimate guide to great smoked turkey and discover best tips, steps, and recipes.

How To Reverse Sear a Tomahawk Steak

Our guide to the perfect reverse seared tomahawk steak. Learn how to season the steak, smoke it, season it, and internal temperatures in this guide.

Techniques & Tips: How to Properly Rest a Steak with Timothy Hollingsworth

You know that you’re supposed to let steak rest, but why exactly? Tim Hollingsworth is here to show you exactly why giving your steak time to rest is crucial.

Smoked Chicken Guide: How to Smoke a Whole Chicken

Smoking a whole chicken on a Traeger is simple. Explore this expert smoked chicken guide and learn how to smoke a whole chicken, season it, brine it, and recipes.

How to Cook Beef Flank Steak

Learn how to cook beef flank steak using marinades, rubs, and other flavor enhancers. We have grill recipes, preparation tips, and internal temperatures.

Techniques & Tips: Doneness of Steak by Feel with Timothy Hollingsworth

The best way to check the doneness of your steaks is with a thermometer, but if you’re in a pinch you can do it by touch. Here is how it’s done.

How to Cut Brisket

Learn how to cut brisket, the equipment you need, and the directions to follow. Learn how to cut both the flat, point, and how to follow the grain.

How & When To Wrap Brisket

Your guide to wrapping a brisket. Learn when to wrap brisket, and how to wrap it in butcher paper or aluminum foil to prevent the stall and create bark.

How to Season Steak

Tips on how to season a steak including the best herbs and spices, plus info on rubs and marinades for sirloin, ribeye, porterhouse, filet mignon, and more cuts.

How to Season Salmon

Learn how to season salmon like a pro. The complete guide to seasoning salmon from rubs to marinades, and glazes so that you can get epic results on your Traeger Grill

How To Smoke Pork Ribs On a Pellet Grill

Learn how to smoke and grill pork ribs on pellet grill. Lean seasoning methods, internal temperatures, cook time, & more in this ultimate guide.

Techniques & Tips: How to Dry Brine with Chad Ward

Dry brining might sound complicated, but it really just means salting your meat to add flavor and draw out moisture. Poultry is perfect for dry brining.

HOW TO CUT A TRI-TIP

Learn how to correctly cut tri-tip by first identifying the two different grain directions and then slicing against those grains for maximum tenderness.

How to Make Brisket Burnt Ends

Learn how to make brisket burnt ends. Burnt ends are made by smoking and saucing the pointed end of a brisket. Learn the entire cooking process here.

Knife Skills: Cutting Onions Like a Chef with Timothy Hollingsworth

Learn how to cut onions like a professional chef. Onions are the building blocks of many recipes and learning how to cut them properly will improve your meals.

Techniques & Tips: How to Take Better Food Photos with Dennis Prescott

Whether you’re an aspiring photographer or just want some extra likes on your social media posts, following a few fundamentals will help get you there.

Techniques & Tips: Plating Your Dish Like a Pro with Dennis Prescott

Learn how to plate your disk like a pro. You spent a lot of time and effort cooking amazing food so make sure you also take the time to present it beautifully.

Matt “Sasquatch BBQ” Crawford explains why you might want to score your meat and shows you just how easy it is score meat. He demonstrates on 3 different cuts.

How to Reverse Sear Steak

Here's our ultimate guide to reverse searing. Learn how to reverse sear steak, the best temperatures, and how to create a crust in this detailed article.

Knife Skills: Sharpening with Ty Hess

Not only are sharp knives easier to work with, but they’re also much safer, too. Keep your knives sharp and safe with this tutorial from Ty Hess.

Wild Game: Field Knife Essentials with Chad Belding

Ever wanted to know more about the kinds of knives the pros use for wild game? Here is a general overview of the types of knives we find most useful.

There are few dishes more impressive than a beautiful French roast. In this article Matt “Sasquatch” Crawford shows you how to french a bone-in prime rib.

How To Choose A Chicken Breast Marinade

A chicken breast marinade adds flavor and additional tenderness to quick and easy grilled chicken breast. See marinade basics, ingredients, and recipes.

How to Make BBQ Sauce

Recipes, ingredients, and tips for making homemade BBQ sauce. The basics of BBQ sauce, plus info about the traditional regional BBQ sauce styles.

How to Make Smoked Ice

Learn how to make smoked ice with our quick guide on how to bring wood-fired smoked flavor to your cocktails. Infusing smoking flavor into your Cocktails.

Baking: Making a Decorative Pie Crust with Mandy Tanner

Take your pie presentation to the next level with some help from Mandy Tanner. Here she’ll start by showing you how to do a simple lattice crust.

Sauces & Rubs Pairing Guide

We’re bringing change you can taste. Not only have we revamped all our sauces and rubs, but we’ve assembled a guide for you to pair them together.

Techniques & Tips: De-seeding a Pepper with Sammy Moniz

Whether you want your bell pepper cut for scooping hummus, sliced thin for stir-fry, or diced up for Denver omelets, Sammy Moniz is here to show you how.

Baking: Making Traeger Whipped Cream with Mandy Tanner

Making your own whipped cream from scratch it easy and ten times tastier than settling for the store-bought stuff. Here is how to add some wood-fired flavor.

Techniques & Tips: Saving Fresh Herbs with Dennis Prescott

The only downside of fresh herbs is that they don’t last that long. Watch as Dennis the Prescott shares his secrets to getting the most out of your herbs.

Recipe Building Blocks: Chimichurri with Mandy Tanner

Chimichurri is a super simple, ultra-versatile sauce that adds a bright, herby punch to any grilled meats or veggies. Mandy Tanner gives you the basics.

Wild Game: Simple Wild-Game Marinade with Chad Belding

Check out Chad Belding as he offers his recipe for a universal wild game marinade that tastes great with everything from wildfowl to venison.

Cocktails: Smoked Garnishes with John Dudley

To elevate your cocktails to a whole new level Jon Dudley recommends slicing citrus super thin, giving it a dusting of sugar, and smoking it on the Traeger.

How to Make Competition Pork Ribs

We have put together tips from the BBQ pros on how to create the best competition ribs in the business. Here’s what BBQ competition judges judge ribs on.

BBQ: Building a BBQ Competition Box with Chad Ward

When it comes to competition BBQ, flavor may be king, but presentation still matters. Chad Ward is here to teach you how to make a competition box.

How To Get Started in Competition BBQ

Here’s what you need to know about getting into the BBQ circuit. Check out these tips from a BBQ Pro on becoming a BBQ judge & entering your BBQ.

How & When To Wrap Brisket

Your guide to wrapping a brisket. Learn when to wrap brisket, and how to wrap it in butcher paper or aluminum foil to prevent the stall and create bark.

Best Of American Royal Recipes

Follow along with the professionals with our top American Royal recipes. From competition brisket to grilled cocktails, cook like a pit master.

How to Make the Best BBQ Ribs

Become a rib master with our easy how-to guide on how to grill and smoke BBQ ribs. Saucy & smoking Traeger ribs will make you the MVP of the party.

The Best Grilled Chicken Drumsticks

Be the hero of your BBQ with these chicken drumsticks. These drumsticks are the perfect BBQ meal. This is a winner, winner smoked chicken dinner.

How to Make the Best Competition Pulled Pork

Learn how to make competition pulled pork. First dry rub it, then smoke and spritz while it's on the Traeger, then wrap until it reaches perfection.

4 BBQ Recipes to Impress a Crowd

Master these 4 bbq recipes to impress your next crowd. From 321 ribs, to smoked chicken, pulled pork, and brisket, try these bbq recipes.

How to Carve a Turkey Like a Pro

This Thanksgiving, learn how to carve a turkey like a pro. Get the best tools, and learn all the steps from the experts at Traeger.

Your Complete Traeger Thanksgiving Timeline

We did the hard work for you and came up with a complete Thanksgiving timeline to help ensure your thanksgiving goes right. Here's the schedule you need.

3 Thanksgiving Menu Dinner Ideas

Cook your Thanksgiving three ways. From field-to-table, to traditional BBQ and the ultimate foodie feast, there’s something for every taste.

THANKSGIVING TURKEY FLAVOR GUIDE

Our Thanksgiving Turkey flavor guide shows three methods for cooking a thanksgiving turkey, a traditional, a BBQ turkey, and a spatchcock turkey.

40 Smoked Thanksgiving Sides & Desserts

See Traeger's 40 best smoked Thanksgiving sides & desserts. From mashed potatoes and wood-fired green bean casserole to savory rolls and pumpkin pie.

Thanksgiving Prep List

We’ve got you covered this Turkey Day with Traeger’s Thanksgiving Prep List. This step-by-step guide will ensure that everything is in place.

How Long To Cook a Turkey On a Pellet Grill

Learn how long to cook a turkey to perfection on the pellet grill. Explore this complete guide to Traeger turkey cook time from a 12-pound turkey to 20-pound

How To Spatchcock A Turkey

Learn how to spatchcock a turkey before smoking or roasting on the Traeger. Learn why, steps to spatchcocking, how to season, best recipes, and top FAQ's.

Wood-Fired Thanksgiving Pies

Dessert was made for the Traeger Grill. It’s time to bake some sweet & smoky flavor into your Thanksgiving pies this year and try some of our favorite recipes.

Gluten-Free Thanksgiving Recipes

These gluten-free Thanksgiving recipes have you covered with turkey, gravy, stuffing, sides, casseroles, desserts, and cocktails to make on a wood-fired grill.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cook Time and Guide

This is the complete Traeger Turkey Grill Guide. Learn how to prep your turkey, the turkey cook time how long to smoke it, and other FAQs in this in-depth article.

THANKSGIVING TURKEY FLAVOR GUIDE

Our Thanksgiving Turkey flavor guide shows three methods for cooking a thanksgiving turkey, a traditional, a BBQ turkey, and a spatchcock turkey.

Easy Thanksgiving Dishes

These recipes for easy Thanksgiving dishes on the grill prove that Thanksgiving dinner doesn’t have to be overly complicated to be delicious.

Thanksgiving Dinner Ideas

Thanksgiving dinner ideas for the grill. Learn different mains, appetizers, sides, desserts, and turkey alternatives you can serve this holiday.