She probably does not like smoked foods because of too strong smoke flavors.
Shouldn't have too much of that with your pellet set up.
We don't use hickory.
Tell me more about all that hickory up there?
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Jim you ain't usin' then pelletized buffler patties from the Rez are you?
Compressed wheat straw?
We all know there ain't much wood up that way.
Geno
PS Hawai'ian Punch, Tang, Kool Aide, all the same stuff just a different color and packaging, right?
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I will echo the above posts on restarting without cleaning out the burn pot. I have a Pit Boss and, if I ever when I buy another, it will have a burn pot that can be cleaned/dumped without tearing the grill apart! Also I would get one that the hopper can be dumped. Mine will go out occasionally when using the lowest settings and I made the mistake once of restarting without cleaning. Flame on!! I've also had the pellets burn back up the auger into the hopper which can cause some excitement too! So far the one I've found with those two features is the Camp Chef brand. Good look at those features here:
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I entered a local BBQ competition 3 weeks after buying the smoker, and ended up with three "Call's". Third Place Pork Rib's, Second Place Pork Butt, First Place brisket. I tell you that just to show you that even though I hadn't had much experience with a Pellet Smoker, they are extremely easy to use and produce quality results! Spending $90 on a Prime Brisket, you don't want to disappoint! There's a tremendous amount of knowledge out there online, just search for recipes you like and experiment....that's the only true way to get good at this craft!
Good Luck and enjoy!
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But therein lies the rub......................due to the popularity and ease of use, them dang 'every man should own one" pellet smokers have every Billy Bob and their uncles smokin' briskets and such and drove the price up on what used to be an economy cut. Now a regular Joe can't hardly afford one.
Used to be nice when real men used a shell from an old fridge, a charcoal bowl from an old burnt out Smokey Joe, and some chunks of real wood to smoke cheap cuts and fish.
Along with the TV cooking shows increasing the popularity of flank steak, I can't get the cheaper cuts I used to. Same with tongue.
As long as liver remains unpopular I'll at least have something I like to eat that I can afford on a fixed income.
Geno
The desert is a true treasure for him who seeks refuge from men and the evil of men. In it is contentment In it is death and all you seek (Quoted from "The Bleeding of the Stone" Ibrahim Al-Koni)
I will echo the above posts on restarting without cleaning out the burn pot. I have a Pit Boss and, if I ever when I buy another, it will have a burn pot that can be cleaned/dumped without tearing the grill apart! Also I would get one that the hopper can be dumped. Mine will go out occasionally when using the lowest settings and I made the mistake once of restarting without cleaning. Flame on!! I've also had the pellets burn back up the auger into the hopper which can cause some excitement too! So far the one I've found with those two features is the Camp Chef brand. Good look at those features here:
Interesting. I like those two features on the Camp Chef, a lot.
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When I moved back west from PA I made sure to bring me a few chunks of hickory. That was at the turn of this century (I'm not as old as some on here) so it's long gone now.
My preferred is alder.
Geno
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I had been looking at buying a pellet smoker for a year or three. Cost of the smoker and my wife not being fond of smoked food made me pull up short.
After a family Thanksgiving last week where various dishes came out of the smoker, I decided I'm gonna get one. I bought a used Traeger Elite 34 that had the update controller and two temperature probes. I gave $450 which included a hopper full of hickory pellets and a smoker cover.
I'm looking forward to using the smoker. Wife is very unhappy I got it. She's not listening to any of it.
Any advice on using a pellet smoker? Different woods? Pros and cons of my smoker?
The wood taste of a Traeger grill is mild at best. Nothing like a old fashioned smoker where you have to keep it stoked with hardwoods.
The latter gives a better flavor in my opinion, but the former is much easier to use, as long as it works correctly.
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Most BBQ around here is smoked with either hickory or oak. Personally, I don't care for a lot of smoke on the meat that I cook myself on the Bradley Smoker.
I've got a Bradley and a Vision Kamado charcoal. I like the Bradley for set-it-and-forget-it, but find it's a PITA to clean afterwards.
The Kamado takes a lot of time so I trot it out when I've got a slow day. Had an offset but found the charcoal side was too small and I was reloading every hour.
So, I am thinking of getting rid of the Bradley for a pellet grill. Seems like cleanup would be a lot simpler.
I've got a Bradley and a Vision Kamado charcoal. I like the Bradley for set-it-and-forget-it, but find it's a PITA to clean afterwards.
The Kamado takes a lot of time so I trot it out when I've got a slow day. Had an offset but found the charcoal side was too small and I was reloading every hour.
So, I am thinking of getting rid of the Bradley for a pellet grill. Seems like cleanup would be a lot simpler.
Yeah, I hate the cleanup afterwards. I'm looking at a Pit Boss Series 5. Don't need anything fancy. If I lived closer to Slumlord, I'd just let him do my BBQ'ing.
I will echo the above posts on restarting without cleaning out the burn pot. I have a Pit Boss and, if I ever when I buy another, it will have a burn pot that can be cleaned/dumped without tearing the grill apart! Also I would get one that the hopper can be dumped. Mine will go out occasionally when using the lowest settings and I made the mistake once of restarting without cleaning. Flame on!! I've also had the pellets burn back up the auger into the hopper which can cause some excitement too! So far the one I've found with those two features is the Camp Chef brand. Good look at those features here:
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