Louisiana Grills Founders Legacy 800

Louisiana Grills is Dansons' upmarket pellet brand, built alongside Pit Boss but in heavier steel. The Black Label 1000 is the middle of three cart models (800/1000/1200) and gives 1,028 sq in in a 14-gauge body, where Pit Boss uses thinner stock at the same price. Its slide-plate flame broiler pulls the diffuser aside for direct flame over the burn pot, so it sears without an add-on grate. Sold new through Tractor Supply, Walmart and Home Depot; the maker's own web store currently lists every SKU, pellets and bucket lids included, as sold out.

The 300 Black Label is Louisiana Grills' tabletop pellet grill and the only portable in this catalog that ships with both WiFi and Bluetooth — the Traeger Ranger and Tailgater have neither. 333 sq in across a main grate and an upper rack, fed by a 10 lb hopper, in a 56 lb body with a cover and a meat probe included. It sits directly against the Traeger Tailgater at $500 and the Green Mountain Trek Prime at $399.

The Ironwood XL is the standard Ironwood stretched from 616 to 924 sq in; controller, touchscreen, sealed chamber, pellet sensor and grease keg are all identical. Against the Timberline above it, it gives up the third rack, the induction side cooktop and the stainless build for $1,500. Against the Woodridge Elite at the same money, it trades the gas burner for the touchscreen controller and the better-sealed chamber.

The DualFire 1200 is a two-chamber pellet grill: about 900 sq in of indirect smoking space on one side and roughly 300 sq in of direct-flame grilling on the other, each with its own fire and its own set point. That is the feature no other mainstream pellet grill has — you can hold 225°F on a brisket and sear at 700°F at the same time without moving anything. It carries a 70 lb hopper, the largest in Recteq's line.

The current-generation Ironwood replaced the discontinued Ironwood 885 in Traeger's lineup, trading raw cooking area for a dual-wall insulated barrel, a color touchscreen, and Smart Combustion tech that owners consistently say holds temps within a few degrees even in wind and cold. The EZ-Clean ash keg is the sleeper feature — cleanup drops from a shop-vac session to emptying a bucket. The honest knocks: at $1,800 you're paying a steep premium over a Woodridge Pro that cooks nearly as well with more space, the 500F ceiling still won't sear like a gas grill or a Weber Searwood's 600F, and Traeger's smoke profile stays on the mild side unless you lean on Super Smoke and 225F cooks. Some owners report WiFIRE connectivity drops and occasional startup temp overshoot, and the induction fan is audible. But as a set-and-forget smoker with genuinely modern controls and a 10-year warranty, it's the best-sorted mid-size Traeger yet — just know you're paying for polish, not capacity.

The top of the Woodridge family and the only one with a gas side burner. Chamber, hopper and controller are identical to the Woodridge Pro Plus — 970 sq in across two racks, 24 lb hopper, 500°F ceiling — so the entire $400 step up buys the burner plus the enclosed cabinet. It sits at the same $1,800 as the Ironwood, which trades the burner for a touchscreen, pellet sensor and a sealed chamber.