Camp Chef SmokePro SG 24 Review

What happened to the SG 24

Camp Chef has moved its 24-inch line on to the Woodwind Classic and Woodwind Pro, and the SmokePro SG 24 went with the old lineup. As of our August 2026 listing check, the SG 24’s Amazon page returns “currently unavailable” with no purchasable offer, so we have taken the buy button off this page rather than send you to a dead listing. Nothing about our assessment of the grill changed — it is simply no longer something you can buy new.

If you own one, none of this matters much: the SG 24 is a well-supported Camp Chef chassis, and the wear parts that eventually fail on any pellet grill — controller, igniter, auger motor, firepot — are still widely stocked as Camp Chef 24-series spares. If you are shopping, read the Woodwind Pro 24 review instead, or the full field in our best pellet grills roundup.

What it was

The Camp Chef SmokePro SG 24 was a full-featured mid-size pellet grill aimed at the enthusiast rather than the bargain hunter. It had 811 square inches of cooking area, an 18 lb hopper, a Gen 2 PID controller with Camp Chef Connect WiFi, and two features that defined it: a slide-and-grill door for direct-flame searing and a patented ash-cleanout cup. Camp Chef’s reputation is for thoughtful, practical engineering, and the SG 24 was the pellet grill that showed it — the one to buy if you cooked often and cared about the small things that make a grill pleasant to live with.

The ash cleanout: its signature

Ash management is the chore that quietly decides how often you actually fire up a pellet grill, and the SG 24 solved it better than anything else in the category. Camp Chef’s patented ash-cleanout cuplet you pull a lever and dump the firepot ash into a removable cup in seconds — no shop-vac, no reaching into the barrel, no mess. On most pellet grills, ash cleanout is a periodic hassle you put off; on the SG 24, it was a five-second habit. That is the one feature the successor carries over unchanged, and it is still the best system in pellet grilling.

Controller, WiFi and searing

The SG 24’s Gen 2 PID controller was among the more refined and steady in the category, holding a tight low-and-slow line, and WiFi was included (not an upsell) so you could monitor and adjust from your phone. The slide-and-grill door addressed the pellet grill’s biggest weakness — searing — by exposing direct flame through a hatch for high-heat crust-building, the same trick the Pit Boss Flame Broileruses. So the SG 24 both smoked low with a polished controller and seared hot, which is more than a plain 500°F pellet grill can do.

Where it fell short

Two honest points. First, price: the SG 24 was priced near the mainstream Traegers, so it was never a value play — you were paying for the cleanup system, the searing and the refined controller. If your priority is maximum cooking area per dollar, a Z Grills gives you more for less. Second, the 18 lb hopper was modest— smaller than the 20–30 lb hoppers on some rivals — so on a very long overnight cook you would want to check pellets more than on a big-hopper grill. The Woodwind Pro 24 fixed that specific complaint with a 22 lb hopper.

What to buy instead

The direct replacement is the Camp Chef Woodwind Pro 24: same 811 square inches, same Gen 2 PID and Camp Chef Connect WiFi, same patented ash cup, and Slide and Grill searing to 650°F, plus a Smoke Box that burns wood chunks and a bigger 22 lb hopper. It costs more than the SG 24 did. If the price has moved past what you want to spend, the Pit Boss Navigator 850gives you a similar sear hatch, more grate and a 30 lb hopper for less, and the best pellet grills under $1,000 covers the rest of that tier.