Camp Chef SmokePro DLX Review: Is This Your Grill?

Finding a good grill at a good price is difficult, especially if you have your heart set on a pellet grill. The wood pellets give foods a smoky flavor and can impart a touch of sweetness too. One of the best models out there is the SmokePro DLX from Camp Chef. In the following review, you’ll find the product specs and the pros and cons as well as our general thoughts on the grill.

The top feature on this grill is the automatic pellet hopper, which keeps the pellets stored inside the grill. It adds more pellets to produce heat and smoke and does so automatically. The hopper also shuts itself off later. As it has a larger capacity than other hoppers do, it produces more heat and smoke and can cook foods faster.

Another nice feature is the sheer size of the grill, which gives it a total of 573 inches of grilling space. If you want to keep some dishes warm before you serve them, you can use the warming rack that sits right on top of the main rack. By the time you finish this Camp Chef SmokePro DLX review, you’ll understand why this is such a popular grill for beginners as well as many home cooks.

Priced less than other comparable grills, the SmokePro DLX is worth the investment. It lets you both grill and barbecue as well as smoke but can also bake, braise and roast, which makes it the centerpiece of your outdoor kitchen. The included meat probe slides easily into different types of meats and lets you keep an eye on their internal temperatures. It also has a large hopper that can hold up to 18 pounds of wood pellets.

If you have more money and want a larger grill, you might go with the SmokePro SGX, which also comes from Camp Chef. With more than 4,600 cubic inches of cooking space and dual meat probes, this grill can cook more food than the DLX and lets you monitor the temperatures of two dishes at the same time. While the SGX is a nice grill, it’s also more expensive than the DLX.

Whether you want to spend the summer grilling steaks and burgers for your family or need a grill that can handle the crowds you invite over on the weekends, the SmokePro DLX is worth looking at as you consider different grills. Comparing it with other brands, with more than 570 square inches of grilling and cooking space across multiple racks, it’s large enough to hold all your dishes and keep those dishes ready for your friends. The warming rack not only keeps foods at the right temperature but can keep foods in the right position for smoking too.

You might like the ash cleanout system too, which collects all the ash from the wood pellets in a convenient container underneath the grill that you can pull out and dump. Suitable for brisket, chicken and hundreds of other ingredients, this might be the only grill that you need. There are many Camp Chef products but you will finds that the SmokePro DLX is one of the top grills sold on the market.