Cookshack
Cookshack Fast Eddy's PG500
Cookshack builds in Ponca City, Oklahoma and sells direct; the PG500 is its competition pellet grill, designed with pitmaster Fast Eddy Maurin. Its distinguishing feature is a charbroiler section — a direct-fire zone over the fire pot with a stainless rod grate — alongside separate indirect racks and a warming drawer, giving four genuinely different cooking zones in one cabinet. At 330 lbs of stainless it is built like commercial equipment rather than backyard hardware, and priced accordingly.
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Specifications
Features
Pros
- ✓Charbroiler direct-fire zone is unique among pellet grills and produces char that no diffuser-based design can match
- ✓Four separate zones — direct grate, indirect rack, top rack and warming drawer — let a whole meal cook at once
- ✓Built and serviced in Oklahoma by a company that has made commercial smokers since 1962, with real parts support
- ✓304 stainless throughout rather than powder-coated steel, so it will outlast most of this catalog
- ✓Efficient at 1.2-2 lbs of pellets per hour at 400°F despite its size
- ✓Sold direct by the manufacturer, so there is no dealer markup or channel confusion
Cons
- ✗$3,750 is near the top of this entire catalog and roughly triple a well-equipped Traeger or Recteq
- ✗Non-insulated cabinet, so cold-weather and overnight efficiency suffer relative to insulated competitors at half the price
- ✗No WiFi or app control at all — a serious omission at this price in 2026
- ✗330 lbs means delivery and placement are a project, and it will not be moved afterwards
- ✗Cookshack does not publish hopper capacity or full dimensions, making planning harder than it should be
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