Weber Searwood XL 600 Porcelain Coated Steel Pellet Grill - 1500121

First off, I love the build quality, the look, and the ease of use. Use I've had Weber grills for decades, so that's who I entrusted with my first pellet grill. It does take quite a while, (up to 30 min), however to get to the advertised 600° for searing, and you don't really see flame like you see in some of the advertised pictures. I did a few short cooks and it performed flawlessly. When I finally decided to do a long smoke on a pork butt, and do it without wrapping, when I got to about hour 9 the searwood kept shutting down. Started throwing tons of error codes. I never could get it back cooking again, so I had to pull my meat off, wrap it, and put it in the oven inside to finish. Finish. I was very frustrated. The next day I pulled everything out to inspect and clean. Had tons of unburned wood pellet dust that I'm guessing started blocking everything up. And when I say tons, there were mounds of them everywhere. I'm concerned because I was excited about doing a brisket on this machine, which is an expensive cut of meat. I'm a little worried that once I do another long smoke it will shut down and I'll waste a lot of money on the brisket. I've done several Cooks since the one that gave me errors and it's been fine, but I've not done anything very long again. I plan to try it again soon. Overall, I really love this thing, it's just that one long smoke that has me concerned.

Plenty of room to fix to cook just about anything.

I wanted to love this smoker. i purchased all the accessories to go with it but cant use any.. It failed after after the burn in. . It won't heat past 450 and the combustion fan cover is melted. I have done software update 3 different types of weber pellets. I have never cooked anything on it so cant say how. it cooks. Fighting to get a refund or replacement.

The perfect everyday cooker that does almost everything well. With its ease of use, powerful convection cooking and stellar tempature control the cooking options are endless. I regularly do chicken thighs, wings, brats, burgers, cor, pizz and the like... all turn out great. However, I prefer the kettle for smoke flavor and direct heat cooking like searing steak and the like. That being said the Searwood is way easier to setup, use and recover for busy week night cooks, where even my wife likes using it.

After three weeks using the Searwood here is my conclusion. Looks Great, Smells great, but the food lacks a noticeable smoke flavor even when using "Smoke Boost". The grill is marketed as being a Smoker, with the ability to use it as a griddle and high temp grill. The griddle works okay at best, taking a very long time to get hot enough to use effectively. High temp grilling works pretty well, it maintains the heat well enough to do your standard weekend cookout proteins. Where it really disappoints is smoking. it does a good job cooking, notice i said cooking not smoking, as the cooks do turn out well, but seem to have almost no smokey or wood fire flavor to the cooks.

I set up my Pellet Grill this past weekend and seasoned the grill along with my griddle attachment. Made my first cook on Sunday using the Griddle. Made some Smash Burgers. I loved being able to cook 10 burgers at a time, and they came out more flavorful than usual due to the added smoke from the pellets. Yesterday I used my rotisserie attachment and did my second cook with two 5lb. Took about an hour and a half. My family loved them and said they were much better than store bought--again, the pellets added that additional smokey flavor. Tomorrow I am smoking some baby back ribs. This will be a trial before smoking pork butt this Father's day. So far I am loving it. My only slight criticism is that cooking on the griddle I noticed that there are "hot spots" so the heat isn't consistent on the entire griddle. Not sure if it's due to where I placed the griddle since the XL has so much space, the griddle doesn't cover the entire cook box.

After a ton of research, I figured out that the Searwood XL 600 would be the ideal jumping point into the pellet game for me. Have cooked pork loins, chicken breast, chuck roast and moving up to brisket this weekend.

This thing works great. Easy to use. Many options for cooking.

I have always been a loyal Weber supporter. I had the smokefire pellet grill and I was about to throw it out and buy a different brand. I had had several issues with it and finally called customer service. I explained my issues and was talked into trying the new model and I am glad I did. This has changed the way I grill completely. I have almost every grill Weber makes with the exception of a gas grill or a Kamato. I can cook anything on this and do it while doing other things around the house. They have fixed any issues with the first attempt of the pellet grill and I hope to get many years of use out of this grill. The biggest drawback of this grill is the hinge on the lid. It is simply 2 pins with cotter pins to hold the pins from falling out. I find that it is somewhat janky to open and close and you have to open from the center of the grill. If you try to open from the left or right corner it gets in a bind and will not open. Not a dealbreaker but I expect more from Weber.

I love the size, reliability and versatility of the Searwood XL. Being able to monitor, adjust and maintain the grill environment without having to open the lid is a game changer.

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