Set Up Traeger Smoker for Cooking

that meat church rub all right guys welcome to the back porch these are the two traeger grills that i use i bought two so that if i needed to cook two different things at once i could at two different temperatures these traegers have an app and i'll show you the app here in just a second so you can set it and forget it okay so you can set it in here forget it go out do some farm chores and stuff and then come back and your food's ready so let's go ahead and uncover the little guy this is little tea the little traeger and we'll show you what we have to do to prepare it for cooking all right if you get one of these grills you want to protect your grill protect your investment and have a cover for it for sure what we'll do is go ahead and open her up and i did a bit of a cook last week this will be our pan for putting our water in here okay we'll check inside make sure our pellets are full yeah they're pretty full we'll top it off we've got to change out the pan right here i'll show you this is a traeger disposable drip pan okay so we'll take the old drip pan out fold it up and we'll put a new drip pan in so if you don't clean it out ask me how i know this you will have a fire and a fire is not a good thing in a grill that you've left alone so you don't want to do that put our grate back in place here and we're going to set our temperature to 225 degrees and we're going to let this guy go ahead and fire up and get running