Kamado Joe Reviews

I paid $250 for a temperature controller, iKammand, that Kamaro Joe just bricked, dropping all support for without notice or compensation. It’s useless now. The old app is gone and KamadoJoe does not support my device. You have been warned.

Update: look at their response. Man, when I bought Kamado Joe it was a company that provided a premium product with premium support. Look at them now. Masterbuilt mass market, MBA driven garbage with a canned response written by a bot that's completely irrelevant to the above review. I had a Gravity grill from Masterbuilt as well and that piece of junk fell apart after one move. I threw it out. Just be warned, don't listen to the people who fall for the marketing. Those suckers will throw money at anything and that's who they target. This is not Kamado Joe anymore, this is just a brand of Masterbuilt. Get the Big Green Egg, Kamado Joe is dead, they sold out.

KamadoJoe and pellet smoker will leave you without dinner if you don’t tend to it really pay attention. No notifications of temperature loss. No notifications of pellets running out. No notification of flame going out. Nothing! Ruins your plans when nothing gets cooked. Oh, and don’t turn off the smoker from KamadoJoe . The pellet hopper will catch on fire and practically burn up the whole grill. Turn it off from the dial on the machine. Definitely not impressed with these and would not recommend for the money they cost.

Just be aware that Kamado Joe has decided to unplug servers for their previous connected device - iKamand without notice, bricking all working devices they sold for good. I believe people should know that before trusting this company and buying any connected devices from them. What will stop them to repeat that again with devices controlled by KamadoJoe?

I have great Wi-Fi throughout the entire house including outside. KamadoJoe always disconnects from the Konnect, never connects with any ease - I always need to reconnect. I’ve had Green Eggs for the past decade, their app is much more stable and reliable. What’s wrong - the grill, KamadoJoe or what? I would love to use it like my Green Egg, everything in my house works flawless excluding KamadoJoe.

This device has always had connectivity issues, but now the product doesn’t work at all and KamadoJoe doesn’t allow you to even connect to your hardware. It’s now a completely useless 250$ accessory. I even deleted KamadoJoe and tried to reinstall it only to find it no longer exists. So angry and disappointed.

Given that the $250 device cannot even connect via Bluetooth with a simple app, this product has been intentionally rendered 100% useless by its own company without any notice or solution to compensate for the loss.

This clearly shows that the company does not care for its consumers. I own the now-useless iKamand and will tell everyone of this company's underhanded business practice. I want my $250 back... as does everyone else.

Any customer looking to buy one of there Wi-Fi grills must be mad. What’s to stop them doing the exact same thing as they did with the IKamand. No warning, no communication on KamadoJoe just stopped working, only to find they decided to can the product. I have four of them at $249 each, they did not even have the common sense to leave KamadoJoe active but with just local connection so you could at least still use it. NOPE just wash there hands of it. At least a decent company would add the old device to the new app! Again no!! So you can spend $1000 plus on one of the new grills and in a couple of years end up in the same situation. You have been warned

KamadoJoe has never worked on my iPhone or my tablet. I have contacted Kamado Joe and they've responded but no solutions have come forth. They say they're working on an update. I tried following their instructions which varied from what I've been doing only by deleting KamadoJoe from my iPhone and reinstalling it accepting all options or settings. The only suggested settings during the reinstallation pertained to notifications which I accepted. I still get a "Joining Network Error" message after entering my network password.

I would stay away from anything app controlled they produce. I had an iKamand, and they disabled the servers making the device completely useless with no warning or communication. It is now a $200+ paperweight. I reached out and was told I was out of luck. They did this during July 4, which is one of the largest cooking times of the year in the US. They have offered no resolution or explanation to those of us left with a non-functioning product apart from the product has been discontinued...while several online retailers were still selling them. The Konnect Joe may work now but what happens when Kamado Joe decides to no longer support it? Given their track record of abandoning apps, I would not trust Kamado Joe.

KamadoJoe is great for manually checking everything without going out to the grill and setting your temp. There are basic features however that are just not useful at all.

1. All the probe temp targets are the same, therefore useless. for example, no matter which type meat you choose, the rare, medium rare, medium rare, etc are the same temps for poultry, pork, beef, and fish. MY $10 probe thermometer knows those don't all cook at the same temp.

2. Editing timer and temperature is not easy. You can't add time to the timer until it reaches 0. This is a simple feature. For temp, when you set it and decide to change it, sometimes you can not do so, as hitting confim will not change the displayed set temp.

I switched from Kamado Joe from Traeger for the direct flame sear and char crust capability. I am extremely disappointed to see how bad KamadoJoe is compared to the Traeger app. Traeger has 10x the recipes, a search function to find a recipe, and videos. Kamado app can’t even change the temperature on my grill without three repeat attempts. Recommend they immediately invest in KamadoJoe to keep up with their competition.

I’ve tried everything deleted KamadoJoe reinstalled the grill and still cannot connect. I get notifications, saying high temperature low temperature, but no user interface posting this on here to try to get some answers.

First cook and KamadoJoe worked great. Love the graph and time function. Raised temp in app to finish off and sear sausage and it worked like a charm.

Only improvement I’d request is the ability to name your sessions and allow notes. That way I can keep accurate times and temps per cook.

We recently got the new konnected Joe and KamadoJoe has been so easy! I love how it tells me the firmware and I can keep track of my cooks while being lazy inside ( keeping an eye on it of course). I also like that we can look at recipes on KamadoJoe instead of having to look on Pinterest or Facebook. Great job Kj!

Easy to use on the Konnected Joe. Makes grilling super easy. I like how I can set my temperature on KamadoJoe and the grill does all the work. Also the session graphing is super cool - you can see cooking history with times/temps. Good job KJ!

It takes just a small amount of time before you get the smoke just write

It took 6 cooks before I learned to let my smoker do the cook at get out of its way.

If you feel like wasting your money, ruining anything you try to cook and getting frustrated to no end, the iKammand is for you…

KamadoJoe does what you need. Allows you to see what’s going on and adjust temps easily. Kamado warns you of a delay in temp, but if you’re grill is close to the house (me 40 feet) then you shouldn’t see much of a delay. Pay close attention to accessories on the grill screen so you don’t miss temperature ramping. I missed the notice when inserting a DoJoe and waited forever for my temp to come up as the grill assumed I had the lid open.

Love the grill and App, great work Kamado Joe!!! Ignore the key sayers out there! This thing is sweet!!!

Love it! I’ve been wanting one for so long and my kids got me this Pellet Joe for Father’s Day just ran some pellets through it initial burn in and can’t wait to smoke some brisket for my fist cook!

I did have a setup issues getting my Wi-Fi password to work until my phone was near the grill.