Hey everybody welcome back I've been hacked not my phone not my computer but
my Green Mountain wood pellet grill it's been hacked it's been griddle hacked
that's right I'm gonna turn my grilling surface into a flattop cooking surface
so all those things that you want to cook you wish you had a flat surface on
your grill for now we have one so I'm not sure what I'm gonna cook first but
let's open this let's get it taken out and then we'll worry about what we're
gonna cook so what's in the package is the griddle hack you got four quarter by
two inch bolts you got eight nuts these are to level it on your grill there's a
quarter by three-quarter not for the drip tray the drip trays in here there's
a grease block some silicone to stop and to seal that and this fits over 60 wood
pellet grills currently there's a partial list right on the box here check
the website because the full list is on there they're constantly adding more I
did include a link look down in the description there's a link to the
website where you can buy these so let's get this opened up all right you got
your instructions
there's your drip tray all the bolts and the silicone sealant and the grill hack
this thing does have a really nice handle on it I'm gonna use that to get
the box out of the way here now nice thing I noticed about this is you do
have your grease tray right here this I thought at first when I looked at it
went backwards but I'm gonna go on my grill just like this so the grease trays
in front of me so the key here is when you put this on your grill the drip tray
on my green Mountain the drip tray is over here so I'm gonna mount this on
this side right in this area it's going to look like this we'll assemble it in
just a minute but it's gonna look like this and we'll
put our block right here because we want this to block the grease so it all
drains this way the other thing I noticed is when you put this in your
grill you're going to take off the grates you're going to take off your
drip tray and you're gonna take off the heat shield and then so there's
basically nothing but hotbox and this
actually fits right over the hot box now on mine once you set it in there the
boxes about three inches lower but that gets to heat up into here and also on my
grill the temperature probe is right in this area I have the Green Mountain
Daniel Boone grill so it's actually just by looking at it I thought man this is
too big but it fits so this is perfect for any of the Green Mountain grills
they're listed on there on the website check them out so let's get this
together so I mentioned we have our silicone we have all our boats who's
gonna show these out on the paper here and we have our grease block so when you
first look at this what is this it fits right down in this angle the drip tray
and we're gonna seal it with this silicone now we can use this 20 minutes
after we apply this it won't be hardened yet so you don't want to bump that
because it'll still move around so we're actually gonna do this last because we
have to do some assembly so the instructions say take these take each
bolt and take one of the nuts and put it about halfway down and we're gonna
adjust these after we put it on there because we basically if we keep it like
this all the grease will kind of just pool and if it's not perfectly level
you'll see the grease drip in one way or another we kind of want to just tilt it
towards us just so it gets to the drip tray and maybe just a little angled this
way so the grease runs down here so I haven't used this yet so we're gonna try
it out but it's kind of what the instructions say and you want to get
these pretty close because you want this as close to level as possible and we'll
make modifications later I believe the instructions also say this is an 11
millimeter wrench if you want to tighten them down all right those all look about
the same so you basically put this right in here like this and you might want to
tighten those up once you have this all figured out the way you want
and the 1/4 by 3/4 like I said this is for the drip tray mines on this side so
put the drip rate on and then there's a wingnut so that's pretty easy down here
well there's an let's take this high temp silicone cu1 let's seal this guy so
it's sealed there's a little opener right there let's get this and this
doesn't look super pretty I didn't do a great job of this but it's on there it's
basically gonna keep our grease draining out of this site so I'm gonna let this
dry for just a little bit let's get this put on the green mountain grill and see
how it fits okay so I mentioned I have the Green Mountain Daniel Boone grill so
we're gonna get this opened up now as you recall said you're gonna take the
grates out so we're gonna get both grates out of here set them to the side
we're gonna get our drip tray out set it to the side and we're gonna take our
heat shield out all this comes out and basically all you got left is your burn
box here and a couple pellets here because I ran this out of pellets last
time so you got to start with a few pellets in there all right all right
look at that surface so that is right there about directly above our box we've
taken this and moved it so this is gonna go right into our drip pan and we're
about ready to fire this up take a look that fits perfect just like
the Box said it would so let's turn on our grill my Daniel Boone is a wireless
version well that's a different discussion why you'd want Wireless on a
grill but in short I can start this thing from my phone monitor all the
temperature of the meat and the grill on my phone
change it on my phone sitting in my chair and I don't have to keep running
out here so again different discussion different video but let's turn this
grill on and see what this thing does now the packaging says this is seasoned
and ready to use right out of here but they do suggest that if you have time
and you want to actually season it again yourself so we're gonna go ahead and do
that so let's get our grill on all right press the start button let's see how
long this takes to warm up now while the grill is heating up what I did want to
show you real quick is remember I said it looked like it was too big it
actually look at that it fits perfectly now watch this close the lid and I check
on the sides and it is perfectly closed so this fits this grill perfectly almost
kind of like they designed it that way alright we got smoke roll in here so
we're gonna let it get to 150 and then we're gonna turn this up to about 350
just because I have this I'm not telling you all the good things I'm gonna tell
you pros and cons here and one kind that
I've noticed already is that on the sides on both sides
normally the drip tray is the full length of this so it kind of deflects
some of the burning embers and the ashes look at this there's a lot of ashes on
top of the surface now normally I have grates in here so I don't notice that
maybe I'm just noticing it because it's a cooktop surface but there's a lot of
ashes accumulated here and I think it takes a little bit longer to heat up
only because my temperature probe is right here and the heat shield is on an
angle or the drip tray is on an angle I mean right here so it has a tendency to
keep all that heat underneath and now since it's open
a lot of the heats just going to the top so just a couple things I noticed so
that you get a fair shake of where we're at on this now the other thing I wanted
to mention is right along the edge here so the heat goes into that little cone
that I showed you and it'll heat this whole surface and
there's a little slit on each side for some of the heat to escape so it's not
going to all get trapped in there and can constantly circulate so one thing I
wanted you to check out is look at this since we're heating up look at that
flame under there
and that's heating right into that cone so this surface is gonna get hot quick
I brought a cup of water out here so let's see how quick oh yeah look at that
look at the sizzle so that surface it's hot apparently my grill is almost
perfect right here because you can see the water the extra it's kind of running
that way so I did a pretty good job lovely also I didn't really mess with
level on these guys because if your grills not level then what you do with
those screws isn't really gonna matter either all right so that cooktop to
pretty hot let's get some olive oil seasoned this a little bit all right
there we go now it's all seasoned pretty good now according to the instructions
seasoning this is kind of like seasoning a cast-iron skillet so when you're done
they basically say water cleanup and then just put a little oil on it to keep
it from rusting so that's the way we're gonna take care of it okay
so we have the griddle hack all seasoned it's been heated up to 350 degrees it's
cooling back down now so it's nice and seasoned with olive oil we're gonna do a
first cook video I don't know what I'm gonna cook on it yet but check back to
my channel and you'll see the video of my first cook and there's gonna be many
more because I can think of a half a dozen things I want to cook on that
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