Traeger - Grill control & recipes

The Traeger App grants you access to a vast array of flavors. You can manage your grill remotely through WiFIRE®, explore a selection of over 1500 wood-fired recipes, learn from culinary experts, and receive tailored content aimed at enhancing your cooking skills, all from your mobile device.

Key Features:

• WiFIRE® Control: Modify the grill's temperature, keep an eye on internal food temperatures, set notifications and timers, and more directly through the app.

• Learn From the Pros: Engaging videos with recipes and helpful advice bring you into the kitchen alongside renowned pitmasters and chefs.

• Over 1500 Recipes: Discover fantastic wood-fired recipes that range from BBQ dishes to desserts.

• Personalized Content: Create a profile that reflects your cooking experience and preferences to receive customized content that matches your tastes.

• Follow Your Favorites: Stay updated with new recipes from your favorite chefs and pitmasters.

• Shop: Purchase pellets, sauces, rubs, accessories, and all other offerings available through the app.

• Dealer Locator: Locate nearby dealers for all your Traeger needs.

Always in Control

Our grill control screen makes it easier than ever to check on your food, adjust temps, set alerts, active Super Smoke Mode, & more.

Easily Find Your Favorites

Save your favorite recipes and follow your favorite chefs & pitmasters so you can easily reference them whenever you want.

Tap to Start Cooking

Send recipe cook instructions straight to your connected grill with the click of a button.

Discover new recipes

Head to the "Recipes" tab and look for the magnifying glass icon at the top-right to discover hundreds of wood-fired recipes.

Why Does This Happen?

Your food cooks from two heat sources:

Air (convection) heat: Heat coming from the warm air circulating inside the grill

Radiant heat: Heat coming directly from hot surfaces like the drip tray, grates, and walls

Darker, seasoned surfaces radiate more heat than shiny new ones. 

Darker surface = More radiant heat = Faster cooks

Same temp, same time, different surfaces:

As the drip tray liner's color changes, so does the way food cooks.

Want to Speed Up the Break-In?

This difference is most noticeable on low-and-slow cooks. To speed up the break-in, start with a couple of high-and-fast cooks. 

You'll quickly notice the grill's interior darkening and cook times aligning with recipes.

While a cook of any length will break in your grill, an extra 5–10 minutes on a 25-minute recipe is much easier to manage than an extra 1–2 hours on a 4-hour cook. 

Just Replaced a Part or Deep-Cleaned?

Did you recently:

Deep-clean your grill

Install a new drip tray liner

Replace a part inside the grill's barrel like the lid, heat baffle, or drip tray?

These actions reintroduce shiny surfaces. Just like with a new grill, you may notice recipes take a little longer for the first couple cooks until these components darken again.

I tested my grill with another thermometer. Why is it different? 

If your Traeger controller says 225°F, it's 225°F.

Your Traeger's temperature system is sophisticated—it's not just reading a single point like a basic thermometer. 

The controller accounts for the complete cooking environment, including radiant heat, airflow, and how heat moves through your grill.

Third-party thermometers (like instant-read probes, oven thermometers, ambient sensors) measure air temperature at a single spot. They don't account for radiant heat—the heat radiating directly from hot surfaces into your food. 

That doesn't mean your grill is off—it means it's smarter.

Think of stepping on black asphalt or a white sidewalk on a hot Summer day. The temperature outside is the same, but the temperature you feel radiating from the ground to your foot is much differerent.

The best indicator that your grill is working correctly? Your food's internal temperature when it comes off the grill.