Camp Chef 20" Pursuit Portable Pellet Grill, PPG20, Black, Stainless, Total Rack Surface Area: 501 sq. in

We love having a pellet grill we can travel with. Can be lifted by one but easier with two people. Easy setup and food tastes great off of it!

Haven’t used it much yet, but have found a few unexpected issues. On the positive, there are not many travel pellet grills available from manufacturers. I don’t intend to travel with it, but I like that it may be possible. I mainly wanted a pellet smoker/grill that I could easily move indoors, since we live on the coast and the salty air and chemicals reek havoc on outdoor equipment.Pros: Light weight and less bulky as other pellet/smokers. Easy ash dump and sliding plate for grilling. Has 2 extra probes for cooking based on internal meat temperatures. Exterior bottle opener.Cons: Does not have the trademark Camp Chef hopper dump, or sight glass on the side for easy inspection of hopper level without opening. It also does not have very good funneling of the hopper pellets into the auger and I have to check it frequently or the fire goes out (it may work better when completely filled...but again, it doesn’t have the easy hopper dump). It has poorly written instructions and did not come with any guidance for wood choices, like some manufacturers do (like Pit Boss). It was also extremely difficult to get the legs dropped into place (but luckily for us we aren’t likely to travel with it and are leaving them locked down permanently).

My husband and I are full time RVers and we really missed having a way to smoke meats since all we had was our very small Volcano grill. It works great for grilling, but no way to smoke and not enough room to cook for a crowd. I started looking for portable smoker options and found portable pellet grills. I looked at Traegar and Green Mountain grills and was almost ready to pull the trigger on one of those when I found the Camp Chef Pursuit. We already own a Camp Chef two burner camp stove and have used it for years, so knew that Camp Chef made a good product. I really liked the fact that the Pursuit has two racks and the Slide and Grill feature, which meant we could both smoke and grill on this one unit and it was capable of cooking more items at a time. The weight was a little heavy for a portable, but we have found that it works out OK. We have cooked several batches of chicken wings, a couple of racks of baby back ribs, boneless chicken thighs, fish, steaks, pizzas and a Boston butt so far. We're still tweaking cook times, but everything has come out tasty so far. We are trying to figure out what temp to cook the pizzas on as we've burned the bottoms a couple times. We made a mistake and used foil on the grease tray to try and make it easier to clean, but for some reason it really kept the heat lower than we wanted, so use foil with caution! We bought some grill mats for non-stick and use them on the top rack as they are not supposed to be exposed to direct flame. So far, we've only used our Pursuit while connected to 110 power, but if you have a small inverter, you could use a car or truck battery as a power source for tailgating or off-grid camping. This is a really versatile smoker and grill!When we first received the grill, we had a problem with the igniter. It started up, but after a couple of minutes it would trip the ground fault on the unit. We contacted Camp Chef and they overnighted us a replacement igniter as we were only going to be at that campground for a couple more days. There was also a crack in the plastic handle on the legs that we discovered later and they promptly sent us the replacement for it as well. Camp Chef has been very responsive to our needs and we feel very confident that we will use and enjoy this smoker/grill for years to come.

I just opened the box (cut it up) unfolded the legs and tried to roll it a few feet.OK so now the first problem.The wheels will not turn. They use a thin wall tubing that is so weak that when they installed the wheel at the factory they collapsed the tubing so now the wheels rub against the tubing and the axle is to short to put a spacer in.What to do.Do I send it back or do I build a new pair of legs? what to do. I bought this to use in my motorhome.This was the first problem and I hope no more problems. O the second problem is I found the same BBQ for $100.00 less....I will write moreLeft at a locked gate outside the property on the street. They said it was given to me, I call BS.Now I am going to fix the wheels.I am very disappointed with this company. They are now on my do not buy from list.Emailed the company.... NO HELP!I will not buy from this company again. They were no help in getting it fixed.

We have had this smoker a while now. It's portable and does a good job when you can keep the temperature set. See the issue we have is that the auger has a hard time keeping the pellets moving through the unit. No matter what pellets you use. So it gets bogged down and the pellets can block the feed of the auger. This results in constant watching to make sure it works. Or you walk away and come back to find no pellets are moving through the unit so temperature drops or stops all together and your meat is not cooked. This has been more of a pain to use than we had hoped. Not an inexpensive smoker either so I expected better performance.

Had one of these that I bought from Camp Chef for a about 2 years. Gave it to my buddy. Worked wonderfully.This one however, does not work. Been messing with it for about an hour and it doesn’t feed pellets. It did for the initial tube fill up but after that. Dead. Will not feed. Tried to unplug it and restart it but nothing. Should not buy from amazon. Especially at the original price. Now im stuck in the middle of Texas country with turkey breast to smoke for this Thanksgiving. Now im stuck with raw turkey and raw meats and veggies that we were supposed to cook over the next couple of days. Lost money on this, gas, food and trip over all. Should have tested it last weekend but knowing how these things perform i felt confident. No knocking the brand , just the seller. Im stuck. We are stuck. Gonna head back home tomorrow morning. 7 hr drive back to home. Smh.