Traeger Ironwood 885 vs Woodridge Pro Plus
$1,399.99 for the Woodridge Pro Plus against around $1,008 for the insulated Ironwood 885. The Pro Plus premium buys a cabinet, not cooking.
We pick the Traeger Ironwood 885 Pellet Grill
Take the Ironwood 885 and the $392. The Pro Plus is a Woodridge Pro with a cupboard under it: 970 sq in, a 500 F ceiling, Super Smoke from 185 F, 200 pounds rolling on casters alone, $1,399.99. The Ironwood gives insulated walls, a 500 F ceiling and Super Smoke from 165 F for around $1,008. Our reviews score them 8.26 and 7.62, and the Pro Plus loses on value for exactly this reason — $250 of its price over the Pro buys storage and no cooking at all.
What actually differs
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The premium is a cabinet
Traeger charges $250 over the Woodridge Pro for the enclosed cabinet, and the Pro Plus drops the Pro's rated bottom shelf and all-terrain wheels to get it. Against the Ironwood the gap is $392 for furniture.
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20 F of smoke floor
Super Smoke engages at 165 F on the Ironwood and waits until 185 F on the Pro Plus. Our Ironwood review names this comparison directly, because the cheaper grill is the one that smokes harder.
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What the Ironwood costs you instead
Three years of cover against ten on rust-through, Legacy status on Traeger's own site, and 85 sq in less grate. Those are real, and they are what the $392 is actually weighed against.
The scorecard, side by side
Both reviews are scored on the same six weighted categories, each bar on the same 0–10 scale, and every cell carries the reason that review gave. A row is marked won only where the two differ by a tenth or more. How we score →
Super Smoke opens at 165 F where the current $1,399.99 Woodridge Pro Plus waits until 185 F, behind insulated side walls.
Super Smoke over a two-rack 970 sq in barrel, but the published ceiling stops at 500 F and no sear station exists.
Three years is Traeger's shortest term, the brand states it two ways for this grill, and resale kills it outright.
Ten years is rust-through only; controller, auger and fan get three years, the hot rod and RTD one, and resale voids it.
Porcelain coated steel grates, a stainless shelf and double-walled construction, on a barrel whose steel Traeger still declines to name.
Gains an unrated cabinet but drops the Pro's rated bottom shelf and all-terrain wheels, and Traeger names no steel anywhere.
A pellet sensor, a cleanout trapdoor and 5 F steps from a phone remove the two chores cheaper Traegers keep.
Four probe channels, WiFIRE and one-touch Super Smoke, offset by 200 lbs rolling on casters alone.
Around $1,008 buys insulation and a 500 F ceiling that Traeger's own $1,399.99 Woodridge Pro Plus does not list.
$250 over the Woodridge Pro buys storage and no cooking at all, in a line where every other step buys heat.
The hopper empties without tools, but Traeger's own chart marks it absent for the EZ-Clean grease and ash keg.
One keg takes grease and ash together, yet the firepot wants a vacuum roughly every 20 cooking hours.
Published figures that differ
Quoted from each maker's own specifications, as each review records them. Figures the two products publish identically are left out — only the differences are listed.
Which one is for you
You want the most smoker for the money and can live with a discontinued model.
Check price →You specifically want enclosed storage under a current-line Traeger and the ten-year rust cover.
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Every score and figure on this page comes from our own reviews of these two products, linked above. We have not tested them side by side in one place; the comparison is between two full reviews, each built from the maker's published specifications and documentation. Prices move, and the ones quoted are the ones each review checked on its own date.