Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 57 minutes ago

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If you have a Pit Boss Pellet Grill, you are pretty much guaranteed to have a nasty hot spot right in the middle of your cooking grate! While this is okay for grilling, this presents a problem when smoking meats low and slow!

Enter the Flame Tamer and Heat Deflector from SmokesLikeABoss.com!

In this video I will show the install, adjustment, and testing of these products and how they have elevated my smoker in a way that it honestly should have been out of the box.

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Chapters:

00:00 Introduction
01:49 Flame Tamer Overview
03:48 Heat Deflector Overview
04:40 Thermal and Temp Test (Before Mods)
07:30 Bread / Toast Test #1
09:19 Flame Tamer Install
10:06 Thermal and Temp Test (Flame Tamer Only)
10:47 Heat Deflector Install
12:00 Temp Test (Flame Tamer and Heat Deflector)
12:41 Bread / Toast Test #2
14:10 Flame Tamer Adjustment
14:45 Bread / Toast Test #3
15:32 Before / After Comparisons
16:13 Summary and Final Thoughts