No company is as dedicated to wood pellet cooking as recteq. They have every type of pellet grill imaginable, even a pellet fueled griddle.

Well, they have almost every type available. The one cooker missing from their line-up is a vertical pellet smoker, and they’re fans have let them know it.

That all changed today with the release of the Staq RT-900S. It’s a vertical pellet smoker that has the recteq build quality fans love with some added innovation.

The Staq was born directly from our community’s input. For years, our customers have asked us to create a vertical smoker with the durability, temperature control, and performance they expect from recteq. We built the Staq to deliver serious capacity and a deep, consistent smoke environment, while optional accessories give backyard cooks even more ways to use it. You can slow-smoke a delicate salmon in the morning and sear ribeyes for dinner in the dedicated steak drawer.

recteq CEO Ralph Santana

Features and Specs

• Retail price of $999.99 (check price)
• 1,924 square inches of cooking space to cook a ton of food
• 33 lb pellet hopper lets you smoke for a long time
• Large temperature range of 150 degrees F to 450 degrees F for cooking a variety of food
• Dual-Band WiFi and 4 included temperature probes lets you cook from anywhere
• Easy-access grease drawer make cleaning easier

Vertical Smoker Benefits

If you want to smoke a ton of food, vertical smokers are hard to beat. Their box design with multiple racks gives you efficient cooking space to manage.

recteq elevated the quality and efficiency with the Staq by building the cooking chamber with double-walled stainless steel and 304 stainless steel cooking grates. They continue to be the category leader for stainless steel components at the price point they compete at.

The low minimum temperature of this smoker gives added versatility beyond cold smoking. You can also use it as a holding oven, which makes it easier to get your food ready actually at dinner time.

Innovative Accessories

A big differentiator for the Staq is the accessories that recteq made for it. I’m a big rotisserie fan, so I was excited to see that you can get a rotisserie. There aren’t that many pellet grills that offer rotisseries and even less vertical smokers.

You can also buy a really neat accessory called the Steak Drawer. It’s combines a cast iron cooking grate with a hood, like you’d see for a pizza oven kit.

The Steak Drawer concentrates and holds in the heat to allow you to sear up to 800 degrees F. That’s an innovative way to add a brand new functionality to vertical smoking.

Being able to grill burgers and steaks isn’t something you’d expect from a vertical smoker. It makes it so the Staq could be your only outdoor cooker and you wouldn’t miss out on grilling.