JohnDS
Well-known member
Hello. My name is John. I'm new to the forum and pellet smoking in general. I've purchased the RT700 about 6 months ago and am mostly satisfied with it. I did a brisket my first cook with no water, no mopping or spraying, no wrapping, and no injecting on my first cook. I wanted to see how well it performed, so all i did was trim and rub with the "Joe Rub" and set it at 225. I gotta say the brisket really turned out great, and for a no hassle cook, I'm pretty impressed. I really love that rub and I wish I knew how to make it myself. Just for review purposes for anyone looking to purchase, I'll list my gripes.
- Would be nice if hopper lid opened the other way. It's kind of annoying holding a 40lb bag of pellets with the lid opening toward you and in your way if loading from the back. You can load from the side easier, but still have to switch sides to load the other side if you don't feel like reaching. An easy fix with the lid I assume, but still annoying.
- I feel like the legs that come with it were purposely built lousy so you are inclined to buy the upgrade. They wobble way too much for a $1000+ smoker and make it top heavy. The upgrade should have came standard.
- I purchased the "cold smoke box" with the smoker, but I haven't even installed it after watching you tube videos. It looks like the bottom rack is the only rack that stays cold enough to cold smoke. So I assume that's why RecTec changed the name from "cold smoker box" to "smoker box". It's kind of useless I think.
- The app needs a serious update which I see a lot of people complaining about. It keeps saying device disconnect which is annoying. But the app does work well otherwise.
- Inside the hopper where the seams seal, some of them are welded and some are high temp silicone. I don't understand why it was not completely welded, as I notice when changing pellets or when the hopper gets empty, the silicon starts flaking off into the pellets.
- Email communication. I had emailed RecTec with a lot of questions before I had purchased, and never got a response.
- Finally, the reason why I'm here is that I notice it is not regular 3mm connections where the meat probes plug in, so I am having a hard time finding a replacement meat probe since one of them is sporadically fluctuating in temperature and not reading steady and accurately. I assume this was done purposely as well since meat probes in general don't last long. Do they sell an attachment that plugs into the rectec ports that can match up to a regular 3mm plug in meat probe so I can purchase regular probes? Also, I would love to hear anyone else's opinion on my gripes as well. Thank you.
- Would be nice if hopper lid opened the other way. It's kind of annoying holding a 40lb bag of pellets with the lid opening toward you and in your way if loading from the back. You can load from the side easier, but still have to switch sides to load the other side if you don't feel like reaching. An easy fix with the lid I assume, but still annoying.
- I feel like the legs that come with it were purposely built lousy so you are inclined to buy the upgrade. They wobble way too much for a $1000+ smoker and make it top heavy. The upgrade should have came standard.
- I purchased the "cold smoke box" with the smoker, but I haven't even installed it after watching you tube videos. It looks like the bottom rack is the only rack that stays cold enough to cold smoke. So I assume that's why RecTec changed the name from "cold smoker box" to "smoker box". It's kind of useless I think.
- The app needs a serious update which I see a lot of people complaining about. It keeps saying device disconnect which is annoying. But the app does work well otherwise.
- Inside the hopper where the seams seal, some of them are welded and some are high temp silicone. I don't understand why it was not completely welded, as I notice when changing pellets or when the hopper gets empty, the silicon starts flaking off into the pellets.
- Email communication. I had emailed RecTec with a lot of questions before I had purchased, and never got a response.
- Finally, the reason why I'm here is that I notice it is not regular 3mm connections where the meat probes plug in, so I am having a hard time finding a replacement meat probe since one of them is sporadically fluctuating in temperature and not reading steady and accurately. I assume this was done purposely as well since meat probes in general don't last long. Do they sell an attachment that plugs into the rectec ports that can match up to a regular 3mm plug in meat probe so I can purchase regular probes? Also, I would love to hear anyone else's opinion on my gripes as well. Thank you.