New Traeger owner here. So far I have made Triptip (also called a Bottom sirloin) and Baby back pork ribs. I got the Traeger Ironwood 650. First two meals were GREAT.

I know there are some other Traeger owners on here (or traeger like). Please share some favorite recipes!

You have to try the,BBQ Game Day Chicken Wings and Thighs! Simple to make and taste awesome.
You can find the recipes in the Traeger app.
Try the beer can chicken also! Good stuff.

Ran a Traeger for many years. Now it’s recteq. I’ll try to put together a few recipes soon. I have a rub that’s really good. I’ll bring the notebook with my recipes home tomorrow.

Have you read through the thread below?

BBQ Thread

The latest thing I've been hooked on is smoked cream cheese. Just take a brick of cream cheese, cover it with rub and put it on foil and smoke it for 2hrs at 200 degrees.
Kosmos Q Honey Chipotle is my current favorite rub for it.

My son has one. He did a great Texas style BBQ brisket last time we were up there. Not too hard, but time consuming.

Bacon, lots and lots of bacon, will be some of the best you've had...

I do two to 4 pounds per cook when it's Bacon time, a pound of it never makes it to the Seal-a-Meal...

Not on a Traeger, but on a Green Mountain pellet grill. The best dog-gone meatloaf you’ve ever bite into:

https://www.bbq-brethren.com/f...wthread.php?t=114836

I have a Rectec being delivered tomorrow. Looking forward to some tasty meals. Planning on a pork shoulder this weekend. Yum.

Go to Costco and pick up a slab (10 lbs) of pork belly.

Score the fat side in a checkerboard fashion. put about 2 tbs of Kosher salt on the fat.

Smoke (only) for 18 hours - fat side up. Hot smoked bacon.

Next, same store, get one of those packages with the two pork shoulders in it (about 12 lbs total)

Use Kosher salt accordingly.

Smoke for 24 hours.

After 24 hours, pull and place one of the shoulders into a crockpot. Add some Hatch chili salsa. Set on low for another 8 hours.

Enjoy pulled pork.

For the second shoulder, slice and enoy or, slow cook after first.

You can thank me later.

BTW - either a freezer or a high school football team (for the shoulders - my wife is an assistant coach as there is a deaf kid on the team) is/are your friend(s).

Smoked pork belly is nice but it is not bacon.

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Originally posted by frayedends:
Smoked pork belly is nice but it is not bacon.

Hey - stop harshing my mellow. LOL

I can’t help it. I’m a bitter bastard that takes meat way too seriously.