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Best of both worlds: How Recteq designed a pellet grill for gas grillers


Recteq built a pellet grill to appeal to gas grillers with a cooking mode and controls that will feel familiar to them.

Lesshafft walked me through how Recteq achieves this, employing a specially designed, “gasification-style” fire pot that ignites the wood gas that’s produced when the pellets burn. With a double-walled construction for this crucial component, something that works similarly to the airflow channels on a Solo Stove fire pit, the company can ignite that wood gas at temperatures above 500-600 degrees for “an accelerated amount of heat.” RecteqWhen it’s time for Smoke Mode, turn that far left knob and the X-Fire Pro’s controls transform the machine into a traditional pellet grill.

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