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08-10-2009, 06:58 PM | #16 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 09-05-08
Location: tracy ca.
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if the stick burning could load the same size logs on a ramp and the fire stayed at 250 and you had to plug in to do it would you and you could leave and go to work or to sleep ????as a pellet guy i like being able to load the hopper and go to sleep and wake up 6 hrs later and see the temp is right at 250 pellets are wood in a pot and there is a fire to keep them lit I dont like the to feed the fire every 2 to 4 hrs on long burns lol just saying im the weird one lol i have a pellet stainless drum lol
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08-10-2009, 07:21 PM | #17 |
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Join Date: 08-02-07
Location: Cozad, Nebraska
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Although I kid Billy and others about the pellets, I can see the advantages. Sleep, consistency in product, etc. I would use one if I couldn't get a Spicebox orBackwoods for vending and catering. Stickburners are where I get to be the artist. I have fire, wood, metal, and meat. No electronics, no auger noise, no red lights. Take your FEC to a deer lease in Doss Texas, then ask yourself at about midnight if everything is good. I've done it with a stickburner. Just stars, Shiner, and sweet blue. It was good.
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08-10-2009, 07:25 PM | #18 |
Got Wood.
Join Date: 04-25-09
Location: Quincy, IN
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Cook with pellets or heat your home with pellets. I got tired of cutting fire wood. Cook in your pellet stove too. Fill your pellet stove or pellet grill once or twice a day. Kick back.
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08-10-2009, 07:40 PM | #19 |
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Join Date: 09-15-08
Location: Albertville, MN
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I have a couple of BGE's and an FEC. When I first got my FEC some of the first cooks on it were kind of lack luster, not enough smoke flavor for me. It is certainly a much cleaner tasting smoke, and has a very distinct flavor.
I have gotten around this by doing a low smoke temp(170) with out of the fridge meat for about 4hrs, then raise it to 220-250 for the finish. Since then I have been really liking the product turned out. It is really nice to know that it will be the same time after time. One of the other major reasons was so I could have my wife start/tend/take off anything. I have 2 full time jobs and cater quite a few things. It was really hard with my eggs and having to start a fire (which my wife refused to do). With the fec it is as easy as turning on an oven...Hell I have a 6 step instruction page that ANYONE could walk up and do. The FEC is isn't great for everyone but for me it fit the bill for what I needed to do...With that said my next purchase will be a stick burner. Bryan
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08-10-2009, 08:30 PM | #20 |
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Join Date: 03-14-07
Location: Culpeper, Virginia
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Thats the nice think about Louisiana Grills like the Country Smokers, they have a prime button. I hold it down for 60 seconds and in 5 minutes its 100 degrees hotter.
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08-10-2009, 08:35 PM | #21 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 07-02-09
Location: Fayetteville, AR
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Best quote I have seen in a long time. Well said... Very well said...
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08-10-2009, 08:35 PM | #22 | |
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Location: ADA MI
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08-10-2009, 08:59 PM | #23 | |
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LOL If I send you $20 will you send me a tracing of your hand to place over the tv screen when you say your prayers i can place my hand on the tracing too?
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08-10-2009, 09:00 PM | #24 | |
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Lonestars and sweet blue.
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08-10-2009, 09:14 PM | #25 | |
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Join Date: 05-16-07
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Shiner Bock? - from Shiner Texas, great beer As for puttin' your hand on the tv, we can help you there too. Send $19.99 + s&h of $11.99 to the Right Reverend and bbq bliss is yours for the takin'................
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08-10-2009, 11:10 PM | #26 | |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 07-13-09
Location: Metrolina
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I personally can tell the difference between whether the meat is cooked over live coals or otherwise. I have eaten meat that was gassed, cooked in them pellet thingys, electric smokers, water pan smokers, and in the oven. I really can't taste much difference in any of those, (except the oven, no smoke). In the UDS I use charcoal and a LOT of wood chunks, I am still coming to terms with not having a fire barrel. For me, it's got to be live coals, I'm sure 90% of customers can't tell the difference. How do they hold the pellets together anyway, are they just sawdust pressed into discs? There's no glue in them is there?
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08-11-2009, 06:35 PM | #27 | |
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Join Date: 04-08-04
Location: Marianna, FL
Name/Nickname : Tim
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I have quoted your origonal post with edits to get this back to your question, as I understand it. To paraphrase it---"How much and what kind of smoke flavor???" Hope I got it right. Here is my take. I have cooked on stick burners, charcoal and chunk burners, electrics, gas rigs, and pellet poopers. "Smoke intensity or flavor" is simply a function of three things: Type of wood. A hickory log is exactly the same as a pure hickory pellet. Just bigger and less pure/clean. Amount of smoke. This is normally a function of temp, airflow, and wood quality on any cooker. And finally, time in the smoke. This is a function of temp. On pure sticks, I cook hot (300 plus) like you do. Lots of flavor as you know. We have won our share of "brass and cash" cooking that way. The same "lots of smoke flavor" results at middle range temps (230-300?)with sticks or charcoal/chunks for a moderate cooking time. Once again, our share of "brass and cash" cooking that way. Now, if you blend the two and cook with pure sticks or a lot of chunks and take them down at the low temp range (200-225?) you get a whole bunch of really intense smoke flavor. A lot of folks are used to really smoky flavored BBQ. That is what they have always cooked or been served. Others consider that intense smoky flavor to be "too much"--just a matter of taste. Enter the Pellet Pooper. They use pure wood--no change there. But, they burn in a small "firepot" that is fueled by pellets and augmented with a blast of air. Simply a "Forge" fire type situation. Very efficient--in fact too efficient at times. If I put a butt or brisket in my FEC or Traeger and cook it at 350 (like I did on a stick burner), it has little smoke flavor compared to a stick burner--for sure. Now, since I understand a pellet pooper, I will normally cook at a low temp for an hour or (many hours). This gets me back to the smoke flavor I want. Two things happen-- 1. A longer time "in the smoke" and that is good no matter what you are cooking on (to a point). 2. The firepot is less efficient at low temps resulting is a lot more "smoke" being produced. After a "smoke" period, I just bump to higher temps and finish the cook. Will a pellet pooper ever produce the intense smoke flavor of a stick burner run at the low to mid 200's---never. But, it is a fine smoke flavor for most of us. For lack of a better name, I consider it to be a gentle but pleasing smoke flavor. And Friends, Family, and Judges seem to agree CHIT--I just ran on forever! Sorry--just important to me for folks to understand. I now own two pellet machines, each for a different purpose and with two different personalities. My life is so much simpler now, compared to my days of sticks or charcoal/chunks. Just works for me. TIM
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08-11-2009, 07:27 PM | #28 |
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Join Date: 12-01-05
Location: Universal City, Texas
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Who was your last enlish teacher, I'm tellin!
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08-11-2009, 08:20 PM | #29 |
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Join Date: 02-05-09
Location: East Longmeadow, MA
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Started with Pellet Cooker
I started with a pellet cooker and loved it. After a while I wanted the ability to add more smoke flavor and found two ways to do it. Cook on smoke for a while and then increase to finish, or cook with mesquite which will provide more smoke flavor.
Recently I bought a BGE and have a blast cooking on it and having the ability to really smoke different pieces of meat that can handle the extra flavor. But when it comes to making pulled pork or brisket, I put them on the pellet cooker before I go to bed and can sleep as long as I want with no worries. I had about 80 people at my 4th of july party and was able to serve a ton of bbq and party with everyone all night cause I wasnt up all night BBQing the night before. When I am cooking for the fun of it I use the BGE, when I am cooking because I want some good bbq and don't have the time to dedicate, I use the egg.
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08-11-2009, 08:50 PM | #30 |
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Join Date: 11-30-07
Location: Mountains of Colorado
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Who cares what every one thinks!
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