★★★★★
"Great upgrade!!"
"I can't believe this is not the standard grease catcher for the Traeger's instead of the flimsy bucket hanging from a hook. Now it doesn't spill from the wind and the dog can't get in it!"
Premium smoker. Cheap tin bucket handling the mess.Early Black Friday — $59.90, 50% off + free shippingScrews to the side spout — no hook, no drilling, about 5 minSealed drain — hits 225° about 6 min soonerFits most pellet grills with a 1.6" square side spoutPremium smoker. Cheap tin bucket handling the mess.Early Black Friday — $59.90, 50% off + free shippingScrews to the side spout — no hook, no drilling, about 5 minSealed drain — hits 225° about 6 min soonerFits most pellet grills with a 1.6" square side spout
THE PIT DESK
The manufacturer cut one corner on your smoker: a tin bucket on a hook.
You Spent Serious Money on Your Smoker. A Tin Bucket Handles the Mess.
It holds temp on its own and runs a 14-hour cook while you sleep. Then the mess goes to a flimsy tin bucket that spills on your patio, lets the dog in and leaks heat out of the cook chamber. Here are the six things that tin bucket gets wrong, and the steel can that fixes all of them.
The part nobody upgrades
Look at what you paid for. A digital controller that holds your temperature for you. WiFi, so you can start a cook from bed. A powder-coated barrel, a hopper that takes a whole bag of pellets, a lid that closes like a car door.
Now follow the grease drain to the end of the barrel. Every drop of fat from every cook runs down a chute into a thin tin pail hanging from a wire hook. It's open on top, held on by friction, and the cheapest part on the whole grill.
That pail is why grease stains end up on your patio, why the dog and the kids keep getting into it, why the grill takes longer to heat up than it should, and why the grease end looks like an afterthought on a grill you paid real money for. None of that is on you. It's what happens when the cheapest part on the grill gets the messiest job.
Here's what changes when you swap it for a steel can built to the same standard as the rest of the grill.
Upgrade #1
No More Grease Stains on Your Patio.
Grease that hits concrete, pavers or deck boards soaks in. Owners scrub it with degreaser, pour oil absorbent on it, leave sawdust on it overnight, and the dark spot is still there months later.
Most of those stains start the same way. The stock pail hangs on a hook, so anything that touches it moves it. Pull the cover off after a cook and the hem catches the pail. A gust of wind swings it. One owner had the wind knock the bucket off his brand-new grill in the first week, then three or four more times after that.
The Grease Can doesn't hang. Its sealed wedge chute screws straight onto your grill's side grease spout, and the steel can twists on underneath. There's nothing to snag and nothing to swing, so the cover drags right over it and the grease stays in the can.
It goes on with three screws through the chute into the spout you already have. There's no drilling, the screwdriver comes in the box, and it takes about five minutes.
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Check your fit first. Built for pellet grills with a 1.6-inch square side grease spout, which covers most Traeger, Z Grills, RecTeq and Green Mountain models. It isn't made for undermount drains or grills with a cold-smoke box on that side. Not sure? Send us your model before you order and we'll confirm it.
Upgrade #2
A Locked Lid Keeps Dogs and Kids Out.
The stock pail sits about two feet off the ground and gets topped up with rendered fat every cook. A dog reads it as dinner. A toddler just sees something to stick a hand in.
Vets put it plainly: a dog that eats a lot of grease can end up with a bad stomach and, in some cases, pancreatitis. The posts on vet Q&A sites all start the same way, with an owner five minutes after the dog licked the drip can, asking whether it's an ER visit.
The Grease Can's lid locks shut and stays shut between empties. A nose, a paw or a little hand gets the outside of a steel can and nothing more. The same goes for the raccoons.
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Nothing to remember. The lock works the night you forget, through the overnight cook and over the weekend away, because there's nothing to put back on.
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Upgrade #3
Your Grill Gets to Temperature Faster.
Most owners never think about this one. The grease drain is an open hole in the bottom of the cook chamber. With an open pail under it, the fan pushes heat and smoke straight out that hole like a second vent, and the grill spends part of every preheat making up for it.
The sealed chute closes that hole off. Air comes in through the fire pot and leaves through the chimney, the way the grill was built to run. In our testing, the grill hit 225° about six minutes sooner with the Grease Can on than with the stock open pail.
Grease still runs straight down into the can by gravity. The chute is closed to the outside, not blocked.
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Keep all three screws snug. The seal only does its job when the chute sits square on the spout.
Upgrade #4
It Finally Looks Like It Came With the Grill.
Owners who upgrade all say some version of the same thing: that swinging tin can always looked ridiculous on an otherwise well-made grill. It's the one part that tells everybody where the manufacturer saved a few dollars.
The Grease Can is matte-black powder-coated steel, with the chute and lid built as one piece. It sits tight against the end of the barrel and matches the finish, so it reads like a factory part instead of an add-on.
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The part people notice. Nobody compliments a grease bucket. They do notice when there isn't a dirty one hanging off the side of your grill.
Upgrade #5
Rain Stays Out, So the Grease Stays In.
An open pail catches rain like a cup. Water is heavier than grease, so it sinks to the bottom and lifts the fat up and over the rim. One owner ran a rib cook in the rain and walked out to a greasy circle a foot and a half wide on his concrete. He blamed himself for not checking the weather.
The rain only gets in because the pail is open. The Grease Can's lid stays closed and the chute covers the spout, so there's no open top for the rain to fill. Leave it out through a storm, and the can still holds only what came off the cook.
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Cook in any weather. Start a cook from your phone with the cover off and stop checking the forecast for the grease end of the grill.
Upgrade #6
Emptying Takes Twenty Seconds.
Emptying the stock pail means peeling out a foil liner that seeps, scraping cold lard into a milk jug and buying more foil. Most owners put it off. One forum member admitted he hadn't looked in his for over a year.
The Grease Can uses a gray silicone liner instead. Twist the can off, tip the liner over the trash, and the grease pours right out. Let it cool first and it comes out in one solid piece. Wipe the liner, drop it back in, and you're done. There's no foil to rebuy, and the steel never touches the grease.
It still needs emptying. A rack of ribs barely registers; a 14-hour brisket fills a good share of it. Between empties, it stays closed.
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Straight answer on drips. Snug all three screws and seat the liner so its rolled rim sits over the lip of the can. Skip the liner on a long cook and you'll get a film on the inside wall. That's what the liner is for.
So — what is it?
Meet the GRILLGUARD™ Grease Can
The part your grill should have shipped with: a matte-black steel can with a sealed chute that screws to your side spout, a lid that locks, and a silicone liner that empties in one piece.
- ✓Sealed wedge chute coverScrews to the spout and stays put, so grease stays off the patio. Seals the drain: 225° about 6 min sooner in our testing
- ✓Locking lidKeeps dogs and kids out, and the rain too
- ✓Matte-black powder-coated steel canMatches the grill and twists off for emptying
- ✓Gray silicone linerThe grease drops out in one piece. No foil to rebuy
- ✓Three screws + screwdriverNo drilling, about five minutes
- ✓FREEShipping on every orderNo minimum
- ✓30-Day Money-Back GuaranteePut it on your grill, then decide
What owners who smoke every weekend end up adding
The can is everything you need. This is what the regulars reach for next.
A liner 3-pack so a clean one is always in while another drains. A second can for the second smoker, or the one at the lake house. A deck mat under the legs for the drips that landed before the can went on. None of it is required, and all of it is on the product page when you're ready.
What it's up against. The enclosed, lockable boxes run about $120 and were sold out when we last checked. The grill it's going on cost you hundreds. At $59.90, it's a fraction of either, and it finishes the one part of the grill that was built cheap.
Why 50% off in October? Every can that ships now is one we're not fighting the December carriers to deliver. Early orders get the price. When the holiday rush starts, it goes back up.
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Put it on your grill. Then decide.
Screw it on, run a few cooks, and leave it out in the weather. If grease still ends up on your patio, the dog gets into it, or it doesn't look like it belongs on your grill, send it back within 30 days for every dollar.
Don't take our word for it. Take theirs.
Verified Amazon reviews of a comparable closed-lid retrofit bucket. Count how many say the same thing: this should have come with the grill.
★★★★★
"Keeps my darn dog out of the grease"
"We bought a recteq and were a bit surprised at how 'incomplete' the drip buckets looked just hanging there. With two dogs, I was also concerned they'd try to mess with it. I bought two of these and they really finished it off."
★★★★★
"A must have for pellet grill owners who have dogs"
"This is a must have for pellet grill owners to avoid spills and pets getting into the grease bucket. It fixes a big design flaw that most grills have."
★★★★★
"Traeger drip cup"
"Fit perfectly. Solid construction. I like that it keeps my dogs from being able to get to the drippings as well all the bugs that are attracted to the smell of all that fat runoff"
★★★★★
"Great upgrade to avoid grease spills"
"No more risks of grease spills from uncovered standard grease catch buckets. A little pricey but worth it for the peace of mind."
★★★★☆
"Easy, disposable catch pot"
"It's nice to have a solid bucket for drips of pork fat. It's even nicer when there's a liner to just toss. Way better than a tippy can that the dog can get to!"
That's a bucket that slides onto a bracket and runs on foil liners you keep reordering. The Grease Can finishes the grill the same way, with the chute screwed to the spout, a silicone liner you keep, and a lid that locks.
Straight answers
$59.90 for a grease bucket?
It's $59.90 for the one part of a grill you paid hundreds for that was built to the cheapest standard. It stays put, keeps rain out, locks, empties in one piece and seals the drain. The stock pail does none of that, which is why it keeps costing you cleanup.
Will it fit my grill?
It fits pellet grills with a 1.6-inch square side grease spout, which covers most Traeger, Z Grills, RecTeq and Green Mountain models. It doesn't fit undermount drains or grills with a cold-smoke box on that side. Send us your model before you order and we'll confirm.
Do I need to drill?
No. Three screws go through the chute cover into the side spout, and the screwdriver is in the box. Plan on about five minutes.
Won't sealing the drain mess with airflow?
No. The chute is sealed to the outside, not blocked, so grease still runs straight down into the can. Your grill's exhaust vent does the venting, the way it was designed to. What stops is heat and smoke leaking out the bottom, which is why the grill hit 225° about six minutes sooner in our testing. Keep all three screws snug so the seal holds.
Do I have to take anything off before a cook?
No. The chute feeds straight into the closed can. You only twist the can off when it's time to empty it.
I already use a jar or foil. Why switch?
If it's working, keep it. Most owners switch after the night it doesn't: the foil blows off, the jar misses the stream, or the bucket is still hanging during an overnight cook. A jar only stays closed if you cap it. This can is closed whether you remember or not.
Your Smoker Handles Everything Else. Now It Handles the Mess Too.
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