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Thanks for showing the example. New Traeger owner here who accidentally unplugged his grill during a smoke and just replugged it in and tried to reignite it. Once I noticed the orange flame at the bottom glowing 5x the normal level of orange I immediately put it into a proper shutdown cycle. Quickly cleaned out the fire box and was able to restart the cook. Hopefully the meat isn’t ruined by a brief break but I know at least my whole house won’t be gone now 😂😂😂

I had that happen to me but not as bad. it was due to a mas amount of ash build up in the burn pot.

It's almost like you should read the manual. It flat out says start in on smoke with the lid open. Do better folks

Everyone knows that Traeger grills are 100% safe and effective and anything beyond that is anti-science.

WHY DOES THE AUGER CONTINUE TO FEED during a shutdown??

I’ve been using charcoal for 50 years, never had an explosion, I’ve had plenty of time to drink cold beer while grilling though….

I had my Z grill running over temp and throwing error codes. Took it apart and cleaned everything. Put it back together it wouldn't come up to temp at all and kept shutting down. I just tried to use the grill and for about 10 minutes my back yard looked like a 4 alarm fire with so much smoke and eventually got the flame up blowning lid up. I let it die down took it apart and the auger had pushed enough pellets in there to fill 3 pots. I'm curious why it did this. Additionally, my Zgrills interior looks 100% like yours did. Are the parts all made by one company?

All this is why no one should own these pile of shit cookers. Wood and smoke! That’s all you need. Some men should not be allowed to cook because they are stupid.

What are the dimensions when legs are folded up? And what are the dimensions of the main grill grate?

Wood gas

I did the same mistake with a Pitt boss. Smoked like crazy, then exploded and scared the heck out of me. Lid flew open... put it in the shed and never used it again. I guess now that i know what happened, I have to get it out, clean it, and try it out!

I have a grill coming in and I wasn’t sure what caused it. Your video made things very clear, between your video and actually reading the manual I should be good. Thanks John

What if he did the same with the lid open?

You clearly show why it happened. But not how to restart it.. Am I to assume that once you have a flame out the grill is unusable ? First you remove all your half cooked food. Then let the grill cool down what for an hour or so you can shop vac out the pellets? I am looking into getting one. That seems like a deal breaker.

Another possibility when the fan has stopped unexpectedly is an auger or hopper fire. I don't know how unlikely that may be, but some more recent designs locate the auger well above the firepot, dropping the pellets for some distance into the fireport, so as to decrease that risk. Some designs also include a slide between the auger and firepot, separating them laterally as well.

I have used a pellet smoker for over a decade now. It does not matter what brand you have. When lighting it up, leave the lid open. Turn it on and stand back a bit. There will be some thick smoke and then it will sound like a jet engine with a lot less smoke. At that point you can close the lid. You do not need to clean the fire pot between uses or after a power outage. Just open the lid and restart the smoker. The only thing that needs cleaning with every use is the cooking surface for food, and usually I crank up the temperature as high as it goes after I am done cooking to make the food stuck to the grates easier to remove, followed by scrubbing with a brass grill brush. About once per year I completely clean it out, but overall they are much less maintenance than other outdoor cooking equipment I have used and I have not had a lot of issues with excessive ash accumulation from the pellets I have used, but as they say your mileage may vary. Some pellets might have a ton of ash and require much more frequent cleaning. The biggest issue I have had has been that some of the supplied hardware was not stainless steel, and that hardware rusts over time.

Lid open to light…what most people don’t realize is smoke is unburnt fuel of what ever matter you are burning it just burns at a different energy level or until the volume is produced at a high enough level. By having the lid closed he trapped all this unspent gas inside the grill, when he put the power back on it…it ignited all at once causing and explosion.

That explains our burn out on our Traeger! I had stepped outside a few weeks ago and I heard what sounded like our grill was running?? Sure enough, even though the cover was on... our grill had turned on because one of our outdoor cats had put their paws up on the side and flipped on the switch... which happened once before! Of course I just shut it off and that was that. But a week or so later I went to start it to grill some chops and got the flame out! The hopper had overloaded the burn unit with pellets and overflowed into the outer chamber and caused a big fire. I don't think anything was hurt, but I shut it off until the weather is good enough to completely clean it out. It hadn't been that long since I had cleaned it, so it didn't have a lot of grease and sludge build up, but I was baffled by the fire!

Viral Traeger explosion explained, idiot uses smoker without reading the directions.

This happened to my inside pellet stove. Didn’t clean the burn pit before lighting started smoking like crazy outside then just exploded

What did you say in 4.5 minutes? Please explain.

Any updates on your experience with this Grilla? I’m interested in buying one, so asking your opinion.

Are they ok after small explosion. If you clean it out will they start working again????

Thank you for this!

I think I saw Baldwin and Kurt Russell in that Backdraft 😎 lol sorry couldn't help myself. your welcome, go watch a fairly forgettable movie.

You are wrong . It happened because he had the lid closed . stoichiometric mixture was reached with wood gas . Wouldn't have happened if the lid was opened

Yep, fuel/air explosion in an enclosed space. Pellet stoves/heaters sometimes do the same thing… The issue wasn’t so much the extra pellets in the chamber, they would have lit and burnt OK, the issue was that the unit was probably warm/hot. So when he initiated a re-light, he had a bunch of wood gas/smoke and pumped in air, near the ignition temperature in an enclosed space. When the igniter finally got the pellets to that auto-ignition point and they lit, that little flame lit the rest of the heated wood gas throughout the chamber causing an overpressure. Especially on a re-light, you need to open the lid. This allows the smoke generated to cool and dissipate to a point where it is difficult for the fire pot to ignite once it lights. It also removes the enclosed space, so if some of the smoke does light, it cant build any real pressure.

So what do you do when power goes out? Clean the fire pot out before re-starting it up?

For anyone thinking about Grilla, read the Amazon reviews, these are crap. They do not hold temps. I didn't know that, just received my grill and it will swing from 40-60 degrees above set temp for no reason. Don't waste your money. Customer service keeps telling me try new pellets, I think the controller is junk. Why didn't I buy the RecTeq like I planned to do, I got suckered by a sale, but I regret this purchase.

Nice - Thanks - Nice to know this type of information.... Just bought a pellet grill for the first time....

It's like you tube can read my mind... Instant subscribe, now let me tell you my horror story from today. All the videos I've watched on it... you just explained perfectly and I'm almost ashamed to type this out as a father and the family "grill master" (these pellet grills are cheat codes - my mom and dad never had butter thyme garlic basted steaks at home, so I made them once and now I'm a master chef to my parents, I love it because my brothers and sisters know exactly what I do and it pisses them off because its nothing special, just reverse seer like every RUclips video on steaks ever made says.) Anyway earlier today, i started up some short ribs, got it up to 350... realized I bought an extention cord so I can point the exhaust away from the house... I'm ashamed to say it but since I'm commenting you know what I'm about to type... I unplugged, not even thinking about a shut down, and I thought "don't open the lid and trap the heat and move it quick!" so I was able to get the grill in the direction I wanted on my porch, and now comes the juice... thank goodness I didn't have a blow out, but my hopper caught fire, TWICE! I cleaned the hell out of it, TWICE! I looked up the number one reason and they said "damp pellets" or "smoke mode with all lids open and empty hopper" and I'm handy enough to figure this out (8 years certified machinist) so now I'm drinking a beer, open up RUclips for a second and your the first suggestion. I just had too much fuel loaded... and now that explains the excessive sparks too - tons of sparks escaping from under the sear plate when it was fully covered. Burned my short ribs too, but knocked my sauce out of the park so I was able to salvage more than I should have. And now I see the my short sighted mistake. Thank you.

Excellent video and excellent explanation. People need to understand how their pellet grill works, to avoid such "high drama" events. Thanks.

Always vacuum out the fire pot after use

Treager has instructions under the lid of the pellet hopper, or at least mine does, that basically tells you not to do that. That being said I'm forced by marital obligation to keep and use mine in a wind tunnel, so flame outs are not uncommon. But because of anger issues and hungry children, i have done that exact thing mysel. I have had had the door blow open with a fireball and a sound like a cohern mortar going off. However in not a COMPLETE dumbass so I didn't call the authorities and get the news involved to show off my lack of intelligence. Which is really what the video should be about.

Brand new to pellet grills, and just got my first one this weekend, a camp chef woodwind. I was really struggling with learning how to get the thing turned on properly (turn the dial, click the dial, it's not super intuitive, at least not for me.) I really wish they'd had better instructions in the manual. It was all an explanation of what each setting does, but not "Step 1: set the temp." I feel like an idiot, but if you've never used one... But anyway, after several youtube videos, which also don't really clearly explain step by step, I finally had it going through the startup. The problem was, all my failed attempts had a bunch built up in there and I wish I had a video of myself ducking and covering when I heard the BANG. I got super lucky that it was very minor. No grill damage or people damage. Sure was a learning experience though! I wish I'd seen this video yesterday. I understand personal responsibility, and this was totally on me, but Camp Chef needs to do better with their instruction manual, too. But, here I still am, and excited to keep learning!

Smoke is tiny particles of unburned fuel (Carbon) and is explosive in concentration. Lid closed during startup is a mistake. Especially as you described with excessive amount of pellets creating a concentration of smoke. Once the pellets lit, the gaseous carbon went boom.

Trauger also recommends leaving the lid open when starting the smoker. I have two of them. My first one i had a mini explosion before i read the instructions. I use shutdown mode and clean with a shop vac regularly and have had no issues with either smoker for a couple years

OMG....it just happened to me. Scary!!! It shut off with an error but I turned it off to clear it then turned it back on. WRONG....geez!! THANKS for THIS VIDEO! I totally GET IT!! THX

Keep that lid open anytime you start up!

Car crashes, home fires, guns & Alec Baldwin, lost fingers on power saw, .....nothing is safe in the hands of morons!

That happened to me. Now i know why. The power went out and i restarted the grill. It did cause a big explosion but it was scary at the time and there were flames inside just like a regular grill with very greasy hamburgers being cooked. This video enlightening.

This is why I always make sure to complete the shut down cycle and I ALWAYS clean out my burn pot after every cook. With a shop vac and a brush. Not only does it help avoid explosions but it keeps the grill running clean and smoothly.

If the door is open you will get no build up of explosive gases, dodon't matter if half of a bag of pellets are in there. Open the door.

I have a Traeger grill I always start it with lid open and when I put in cool down mod I open the lid up to

Thanks for the video, really helpful as a first time pellet grill owner

"Exposion"??

Drives me batty that the burn pot doesn't screw out from underneath like an oil filter or just have a cleanout door.

All the more reason to get a pellet grill with an easy ash pot cleanout.

In your opinion how many brisket can you fit in there

Hey John the three tabs on the front of the chimp are for hanging your extra rack lengthwise.