Best Traeger Accessories: What You Actually Need vs What You Don't

Every Traeger sale ends with the same question: what else do I actually need? Some accessories genuinely change your day-to-day experience with the grill. Others are nice-to-haves you can add later, or skip entirely without missing much. Here's an honest breakdown, in the order we'd actually recommend buying them, based on what actually changes your routine versus what just sits in the cupboard.

Prices and stock verified as of 29 August 2026.

Buy These First

These three cost relatively little compared to the grill itself, and they each solve a problem that will affect you regardless of how you cook or how experienced you are.

A grill cover ($69.95 to $159 depending on model): Non-negotiable if the grill lives outside. Sydney's rain and UV exposure will degrade the finish, the seals and the electronics faster than almost anything else you could do wrong. We currently stock dedicated covers for the Pro 22, Pro 575 and Woodridge Pro. If you've bought an Ironwood XL or Timberline XL, ask us in store, we're sourcing a proper fit for both and can talk through the best option in the meantime. Whichever model you're covering, a cover is the cheapest insurance policy on the whole purchase, and it's the one accessory we'd genuinely discourage anyone from skipping.

Drip tray liners (from $24.95 for a 5-pack): These sit under the main grate and catch grease and drippings before they reach the tray itself. Swapping a liner takes seconds compared to scrubbing baked-on residue off the tray, and they pay for themselves in saved cleaning time within the first few cooks. If you only take one thing from this guide, it's that a few dollars in liners saves genuine hours over a year of regular cooking.

The Staydry Pellet Bin ($59): Once you understand how much moisture affects pellet quality, this stops being optional. It holds a full 9kg bag with an airtight seal and keeps pellets usable for far longer than leaving them in the original paper bag in a garage or shed. We cover why this matters in more depth in our pellet burn time guide, but the short version is that damp pellets are the single biggest cause of poor cooks and auger jams, and this bin is a cheap way to stop that happening.

Worth Adding Once You're Settled In

A dedicated BBQ spatula ($59.95 to $85 for the XXL cut meat and fish version): A proper long-handled spatula makes moving large cuts, whole chickens and racks of ribs considerably easier and safer than kitchen tongs, which weren't built for the weight or the heat involved. The XXL version earns its price if you're regularly handling briskets or whole fish, where a smaller tool doesn't give you enough surface area to lift the cut cleanly.

Grease bucket liners ($10.95 for a 5-pack) and EZ-Clean Grease and Ash Keg liners ($29 for a 5-pack, Woodridge Pro, Ironwood XL and Timberline XL only): Same logic as the drip tray liners. Cheap, and they turn a genuinely messy job, emptying accumulated grease and ash, into a thirty-second one. If you've bought a Woodridge Pro, Ironwood XL or Timberline XL specifically for the easier cleanup the EZ-Clean Keg offers, the liners are what actually deliver on that promise day to day.

Nice to Have, Not Essential

A dedicated cleaning brush ($69.95): Useful, and purpose-built for the porcelain-coated grates Traeger uses, but a standard grill brush will get you by until you're cooking often enough to justify the Traeger-specific version. This is one we'd genuinely wait on rather than buying at the same time as the grill.

Traeger Rubs ($24.95 each): Chicken, Beef, Pork & Poultry and the original Traeger Rub are all in stock. Not essential in the way a cover or liners are, but genuinely useful if you'd rather start with a proven blend than build your own, and cheap enough to pick up on the same trip as your first bag of pellets.

Accessories That Only Suit Certain Models

A few accessories only apply if you own the right model. The P.A.L. Pop-and-Lock accessory rail comes standard on the Woodridge Pro, Ironwood XL and Timberline XL, and it's what lets you attach compatible add-ons directly to the grill without separate mounting hardware, screws or clamps. ModiFIRE compatible cooking surfaces work the same way, carried over across those three models, and let you swap in different cooking surfaces, such as a griddle or a sear plate, onto the same grate footprint rather than buying a separate appliance for that job.

If you're shopping for accessories and own a Pro 22 or Pro 575, check compatibility before buying, since these two systems aren't available on either entry-level model. This is a genuine reason some buyers step up to the Woodridge Pro, Ironwood XL or Timberline XL even if the extra cooking space or insulation isn't the deciding factor for them, the accessory ecosystem itself is part of what you're paying for at that tier.

What a Sensible Accessory Budget Looks Like

If you want to walk out with everything that actually matters on day one, a cover, a set of drip tray liners and the Staydry Pellet Bin together run somewhere between roughly $155 and $245 depending on which cover size your model needs (Ironwood XL and Timberline XL owners, see the cover note above). That's a modest addition on top of the grill itself, and it covers the three things most likely to cause a genuine problem if skipped: weather damage, a slow cleaning routine, and stale pellets. Everything in the "worth adding" and "nice to have" categories can reasonably wait until you've had the grill a few months and know your own habits.

Do You Need a Separate Meat Thermometer?

Every Traeger we stock includes at least one wired meat probe. The Ironwood XL includes two, and the Timberline XL goes further still, two wired probes plus two Traeger x MEATER wireless thermometers included as standard, so if you've bought the flagship, you likely already have everything most households would otherwise buy separately. The Woodridge Pro and Ironwood XL also support Bluetooth meat thermometer compatibility alongside the included wired probe, which is worth knowing if you regularly cook two or three different cuts in the same session and want more temperature readings than the wired probes alone provide. For most households running one or two cuts per cook, the included probes cover it. A Bluetooth add-on is a genuine upgrade for anyone regularly hosting or cooking multiple proteins at once, but it's not a day-one purchase for most people.

Starter Kit vs Buying As You Go

There are two reasonable approaches to accessories, and neither is wrong. Buying a starter kit on day one, cover, liners and the Staydry Bin, means you're set up properly from the first cook and never have to think about it again. Buying as you go means picking up the spatula after your first brisket makes you wish you had one, or grabbing the EZ-Clean Keg liners after your third cleanup convinces you they're worth it.

The only accessory we'd genuinely push back on delaying is the cover, since weather damage starts accumulating from day one regardless of how experienced you are. Everything else genuinely benefits from waiting until you've felt the actual gap in your own routine rather than guessing what you might need.

What We Wouldn't Rush Out and Buy

Beyond the essentials above, most other add-ons are worth waiting on until you know your own cooking habits rather than buying because it's sitting on the shelf next to the grill at checkout. Buy the cover and the liners on day one. Everything else, add as you find an actual gap in how you cook. A specialty tool bought before you know whether you'll use it regularly is money that would have been better spent on pellets or your next cut of meat.

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