Pit Boss Pro Series 1150 (2024)

Controller

Flame broil mechanism

Hasselback potatoes

Pork Chili Verde

Smoked BBQ chicken thighs

Smoked brisket flat

32lb pellet hopper

This pellet hopper has a huge capacity and will last the duration of even your longest brisket cook, no problem.

Sear capability

The Pit Boss Pro 1150 includes a flame broiler that allows you to easily switch from indirect cooking to direct flame with the simple pull of handle. I love the fact that this can be done on the fly with meat already on the hot grill. Plenty of other pellet grills we've reviewed may have the ability to slide open for a direct sear, but require physically going inside past the grill grates to do so.

Solid handle

We are constantly moving grills around here at the Lab and honestly some of these grills have kind of puny handles that don't give you a whole lot to grab onto. This handle is substantial and makes moving a grill of this size and weight a simple task.

Smoke IT app

One of the things people love about pellet grills is that you can really set it and forget it without having to babysit it all day. When a pellet grill is accompanied by a quality app, this is all the more true. With the Pit Boss Smoke IT app I can see if the auger, fan, and igniter is on, I can monitor (and adjust) the temperature of the grill as well as view the temp of up to 4 meat probes. And I can do all that from inside the house or even at work. Connecting the grill to the app was simple and straight forward and only took a couple of minutes to complete.

2 Probes

2 probes come standard with this grill but there are enough ports to accommodate up to 4 ports at one time. I also love that Pit Boss has included probe storage into the pellet hopper.

10 degree increment control

This grill allows for 10 degree increment control up to 300°. After seeing a fair share of grills that only work in 50° increments, this is a welcome improvement in my book.

Removable Ash catcher

Pit Boss has given us a clever way to clean out ash in the Pro series 1150. I love that I don't have to get out the Shop Vac to vacuum out the interior of my pellet grill.

Abundant shelf space

The Pit Boss Pro Series 1150 is not wanting for shelf space. With the hopper lid, front shelf, and side shelf, there is plenty of room to set down food, tools, or whatever you need. The front shelf folds down quite easily, and the side shelf has 3 sturdy hooks for hanging tools.

Power cord wrap

Locking casters

Hopper clean out

Probe port

Controller Update

Our experience with the Pit Boss Pro Series 1150 was really a tale of two grills. We received a unit from the first shipment of these grills and it turns out that these controllers ended up being recalled. New shipments of this grill are coming with an updated controller, but for those of us with the original shipment, we had to remove the old controller and mail it back to Pit Boss in order to receive the update. The swap was pretty simple and Pit Boss was very helpful throughout the process. The performance of the grill with the new controller has been like night and day from the old controller.

Hopper Capacity Notifications

I realize that this is "first world problems" at it's finest. However, with a 32 pound hopper, I actually found myself taking for granted that there were enough pellets remaining in the hopper a few times and actually ran out mid-cook causing the temperature to drop. I would love it if the Smoke IT app was able to monitor the level of pellets in the hopper and potentially notify me when it's getting low. Like I said, obviously not a deal breaker, but a feature I found myself wishing for a couple of times.

Sear plate arm

It doesn't happen all the time, but a few times the adjusting bar for the flame broiler has come loose.