If maximum cooking space in a small footprint is your goal, it's time to take a good look at the Mammoth vertical pellet smoker.
Hopper
The Mammoth hopper holds 40 pounds of pellets and thankfully includes a pellet dump feature in case you want to change flavors along the way. At that capacity, a full hopper has a burn time of around 48 hours when running the smoker around 250°.
There is a rubber seal under the lid of the hopper that gives an extra layer of protection to the pellets and we haven't had any issues with moisture compromising our fuel.
Extra smoke flavor
If you want to increase smoke production, the Mammoth has a lipped heat deflector over the burn pot.
You can add wood chunks or wood chips to that deflector and they will smolder during your cook, adding another dimension of smoke.
However, keep in mind that the deflector is directly over the burn pot, so I wouldn't recommend adding wood chunks when running the Mammoth hot or they're likely to do a lot more than smolder.
Double Wall Insulation
The Grilla Mammoth can be a cold weather smoker because of its double wall insulation and door gasket. We have found it to demonstrate excellent fuel efficiency even in less-than-optimal weather conditions and wind.
Vertical Pellet Smoker Cooking Space
The Mammoth vertical pellet smoker comes with 5 stainless steel racks offering 1600 square inches of cooking space. The cooking chamber has 10 rack locations so it's fully customizable depending on the height of the food you're smoking. Grates can be rearranged to accommodate taller foods, whether you're cooking pork butts or 20-pound turkeys.
Additionally, accessory grates are available so if you're interested in smoking a large quantity of something short, like racks of ribs, the Mammoth has room to expand to over 3600 square inches of cooking surface with the addition of up to 5 additional racks.
In addition to the 5 included racks, the Mammoth also comes with a hanging rack and 24 S hooks for hanging things like sausage. In fact, by removing the racks, the upright design leaves room for 6 cubic feet of hanging space.
The Mammoth also comes with a large stainless steel water pan to help keep your meat moist. It might be helpful to know that a full size aluminum pan fits perfectly to help make cleanup easy.
Digital Controller
The Mammoth includes the Grilla Grills Alpha Connect 2.0 Controller, which features both a PID and Pro mode for more smoke. The temperature range of the Mammoth is 180-450°F and can be set in 5-degree increments. The controller has 2 probe ports and 2 meat probes come included with your purchase.
Grilla Grills offers an app that can give you the ability to monitor and adjust temperature remotely from your mobile device. Connecting the Mammoth to WiFi wasn't difficult, but you have to be able to temporarily change your router settings to 2.4ghz first.
Our Honest Review of the Grilla Mammoth vertical pellet smoker
What We Love About the Grilla Mammoth
What We Don't Love About the Grilla Mammoth
Final Thoughts
If you hope to smoke large quantities of food at a time and appreciate the ease of using a pellet grill over the more hands-on approach of traditional offset smokers, the Mammoth vertical pellet smoker is a great option to consider.
However, if you don't think you would fully utilize the large capacity of this cooker, we highly recommend taking a good look at the Grilla Grills Silverbac. Of course, with only 692 square inches of cooking space, it can't even compare to the Mammoth, but this has honestly been one of our favorite pellet grills around the $1000 price point for the last several years and think it's definitely worth considering.
