That's really good to hear about, Jay....none of us ever "stood" in life without difficulties, but ya do have to "choose the path" by which ya travel.....he'll be very grateful 10-15 yrs from now....if he holds to it.....all I can say about the food........having seen it, tasted it, and smelled it "in person"...I relive them each time ya show the grill and meat....even tho, we ate lamb that day and not pork....and I have smelled plenty of pork on a grill....I always smell the aroma of lamb....not mention the aromas coming from the Kitchen and Teresa's cooking....
We ate pork chops cooked on a Traeger grill when we went to Utah to pick up our LGD puppy. I had ever heard of the Traeger grill till then. The pork chops and steaks were fabulous and the idea of setting the timer to make them perfectly instead of guessing was incredible. Our SIL is looking for a new grill - where do you get them?
I got mine from COSTCO during one of their promotional sales. It was the same price as one of the clones as I couldn't justify the kind of $ they get for them full price. There are a couple of other brands that are supposed to be as good but I do know I really like being able to turn it on and forget about it till the alarm goes off.
There are quite a few vendors - ACE Hardware is one of them in our area.
They use pellets. I've tried the cheaper priced ones that are sold but I have found I can get the Traeger brand online at the same price as the cheaper ones if there were to be any difference.