- Hey guys, today we're performing our expert overview on the Victory pellet grill.
Let's get to it.
We'll begin with quality.
For an Entry-Level pellet grill, the Victory pellet grill is put together well.
The body and cart measured in as 16-gauge, powder-coated steel, which is pretty common
in this class.
Their cooking grids are made of porcelainized, solid seven millimeter-thick steel rods.
Pretty nice.
And the heat diffuser plate, as well as the fire pot flame diffuser, are both made of
heavy-duty, 12-gauge steel.
Victory's flame diffuser fire pot cover is one of the sturdiest I've seen in the class
for sure.
Which is a good idea, considering that this is by far the grill's component that will
take the most abuse.
Last, but absolutely not least, Victory's pellet grill boasts the most reliable and
nearly unstoppable auger system in the pellet-grill market.
Now let's look at performance.
If smoky flavor is the number one reason that you've been considering pellet grills, then
you may have just found your match.
As you can see during our testing - we did whole chickens and we smoked three racks of
ribs, tons of vegetables, and sausage - the smoke output on this thing is...
Initially, you may think you've done something wrong.
That's how much smoke this grill produces at times.
So, I mean, they really nailed it on the smoky quality and the performance of the smoking.
Check.
So the grill produces great smoky flavors, but how evenly does it grill while doing so?
Well, our thermocouple test showed that while testing the grill set in Smoke Mode, or 180
degrees Fahrenheit, at 30 minutes, the grill's average temperature on the cooking grids was
174 degrees Fahrenheit.
Only six degrees off of the actual set temperature.
Pretty impressive.
During the same low-temperature tests, the thermocouple with the temperature the furthest
from the grill's average temperature was only 19 degrees lower than the grill's average
temperature.
That is great for Entry-Level pellet grill.
When we moved up to the high-temperature test, or the 500 degrees Fahrenheit test, Victory
had a 15-minute preheat temperature of 469 degrees Fahrenheit.
I'll take it.
Which, again, is great, and has you grilling even at high temperatures in about 15 minutes.
20 minutes into the high-heat test, the grill's average temperature rose to 490 degrees Fahrenheit,
which is just 10 degrees shy of the 500 degrees set temperature.
That's fantastic.
The grill's evenness was checked again at this time and showed that the thermocouple
whose temperature was furthest from the grill's average temperature was only 31 degrees off.
This is good for a pellet grill, or even probably as good, if not better, than most home ovens.
When testing for capacity as it relates to performance, we didn't have to try too hard
since Victory's pellet grill has a best-in-class, or largest-in-class, grilling area, weighing
in with 936 total square inches of grilling real estate.
When performing our real-world test, this grill performed as well as the thermocouple
said it would.
With its nearly full-coverage heat diffuser plate that also catches the rendered fat and
drippings and directs them away from the fire pot, There are few to none of the flare-ups
that can happen to people, or spotty cooking zones.
Overall for an Entry-Level pellet grill, excellent performance.
Now let's check out the grill's features.
First up, the Victory pellet grill comes with a largest-in-class pellet hopper.
This bad boy holds up to 29 pounds of pellets at a time.
This is for you low-and-slow guys and overnight cook guys.
That's right.
On the rear of the hopper, there is also a trap door lever that allows you to change
the flavor of your pellets on the fly.
You can dump the hopper's contents in about 10 seconds flat.
Looking at the controls, Victory comes with a pre-programmed digital PID controller that
allows you to easily set the grill's temperature from Smoke Mode, or 180 degrees Fahrenheit,
all the way up to high, or 500 degrees Fahrenheit.
And the Smoke Mode isn't just a cool-sounding name, it actually maintains the fire at 180
degrees, but it also brings the speed of the fan down so that it allows the pellets to
smolder and smoke more than they normally would.
The controller also comes with two ports for plugging in the included internal temperature
probe.
This makes it easy for you to keep a steady eye on your food's internal temperature without
having to raise the lid, which would let out and waste tons of heat and smoke.
Moving on to the drafting components of the grill, Victory's pellet grill comes with an
adjustable chimney cap that can be screwed up or down.
It looks pretty simple, but this is a nice addition.
It keeps rain out of your chimney.
And honestly, more importantly, it keeps gusts of wind from entering the grill and causing
random heat fluctuations during long cooks.
The Victory pellet grill also has a flanged hood keeping large portions of, again, that
heat and smoke we were talking about inside the grill.
The grill's handle is knurled to prevent slipping, and it feels good in the hand.
The fold-down front shelf gives you one-handed access to extra workspace when you need it
and easily folds out of the way when you don't.
There is a bottom storage shelf for convenient pellet storage.
And for easy mobility, it comes with two heavy-duty, locking swivel casters, and two large, all-terrain
polyurethane wheels.
If you've been considering adding a pellet grill to your collection of grilling gear,
then you should definitely consider the Victory pellet grill.
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