5 Reasons Pellet-Grill Owners Are Ditching the Tin Bucket That Came With Their Traeger or Pit Boss
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5 Reasons Deck Grillers Are Ditching the Tin Bucket That Came With Their Traeger or Pit Boss

Your smoker was engineered. The open pail catching its boiling grease was not — one gust or one bump and it's soaking into your deck. Here's the enclosed, locking upgrade that ends the spills, the stains, and the foil-liner bills.

GrillGuard Grease Can mounted on a pellet grill The stock open tin grease bucket Sealed lid closed on the Grease Can
1

The wind stops deciding where your grease goes

An open bucket on a hook works right up until it doesn't. A gust catches it, the cart takes a knock — or the dog just gets curious. Now a season of drippings is soaking into cedar, and you're the one on your knees with the degreaser.

This can closes the loop — literally. The lid seals over the top and the whole thing locks to the grill, so a bump that would've painted your deck now does nothing at all.

Sealed Grease Can stays shut when bumped
✕ Kills: "my bucket's been fine so far"
2

The washable liner retires your foil-liner habit

Stock setup: buy foil liners, cook, toss, repeat — a small tax on every single cook, forever. That's the razor-blade business model, running quietly on the side of your grill.

Inside this can sits a reusable silicone liner. Pop it out, wash it, drop it back in. You pay once, and the liner aisle stops being your problem.

Reusable silicone liner lifted out of the Grease Can
✕ Kills: "sixty bucks for a bucket?"

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3

The locking mount grabs the tab your grill already has

Here's the part that makes the engineers look bad: your pellet grill already ships with a mounting tab under the barrel. The factory just hangs a bare pail off it and calls the job done.

This system uses that same tab properly. Slide the mount on, secure the can from underneath, and it's locked — a fully enclosed grease system installed in about a minute, with nothing to drill and no adapter kit to hunt down.

Installing the Grease Can on the factory tab in seconds
✕ Kills: "will it fit my grill / sounds like a project"
4

Rain, wasps, raccoons, and the dog all lose interest

An open pail of grease is a standing invitation. Rain tops it up until it overflows, pests treat it like a feeder — and plenty of dogs will happily drink drippings they should never be anywhere near.

The sealed lid closes the buffet. What drains in stays in — covered, contained, and out of reach until you decide to empty it.

Dog on the deck near the grill — lid sealed, grease out of reach
✕ Kills: "it lives outside — weather and animals will get to it anyway"
5

It closes the chute your heat's been leaking through

That open grease chute isn't just an exit for drippings — it's an open window into the barrel. Cold air slips in while you're trying to hold 225°F on a windy day, and your controller works overtime to fight it.

The enclosed system covers the chute as part of the seal. And when the can fills up, emptying it is two moves: lift off, pour out, rinse the liner. Done before your coffee cools.

Open grease chute covered by the enclosed system
✕ Kills: "it's just cosmetic — doesn't change how the grill cooks"
The Upgrade

It's called the GrillGuard Grease Can.

Not another pail — an enclosed, locking grease-management system that replaces the open bucket on your pellet grill: sealed lid, factory-tab locking mount, and a reusable silicone liner, in one piece of gear.

The GrillGuard Grease Can

What shows up at your door

GrillGuard Grease Cansealed lid + locking factory-tab mount
$59.90
Reusable silicone linerwashable — replaces foil liners for good
INCLUDED FREE
30-day money-back guaranteetried on your own grill
FREE
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1× Grease Can
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Try it on your own grill for 30 days

Mount it, cook on it, bump it, let it sit through a storm. If your deck isn't cleaner and your cookouts calmer, send it back and we refund every cent — no forms, no fight.

What deck grillers say

★★★★★

"No more leaks." The grease bucket upgrade is a perfect addition to my Traeger. Easy to install and with the set screws, the durability of the unit is very well thought out. Once the grease container is leveled in place, there are no more leaks, this is great value for the money.

Dale Aleshire — Verified Purchase
★★★★★

"A keeper for Traeger 780 Pro owners." Well built of a good thickness gauge of metal and powder coated black to match my Traeger 780 Pro… it sits further back and wide to allow for collection without spillage. I highly recommend this product.

Roomkaas Verdict — Verified Purchase
★★★★★

"Simple install." Simple to install, even comes with small level. Looks and works great. No more need to wash the grease pan, unless you want to reuse the disposable tins.

Matthew H Hardgrove — Verified Purchase
★★★★★

"Looks great and works even better." Bucket is way better than stock and the inserts are too. Would recommend to everyone.

Tony D — Verified Purchase

Your grill got the engineering. Give the grease somewhere to go.

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