Yes, that’s what’s so great about these grills. It’s not your typical “get up in the middle of the night” smoker. If you fill your hopper full of pellets, you can smoke for hours without watching and waiting. At 10pm at night, you can set your Traeger on “Smoke”, put a brisket on, fill up the hopper with pellets, go to sleep, and wake up the next morning to finish cooking your brisket.