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12-08-2009, 02:00 AM | #1 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 07-06-08
Location: Caldwell, Idaho
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I Wish Pellet Poopers...
...were better insulated. But then again The Pellet companies would sell less pellets if they were. Maybe some interprising individual could come up with a retrofit insulation kit. I don't mind smoking in the summer but these winter smokes really chew through your pellet inventory. Maybe I should just get a BGE but they are exspensive new.
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12-08-2009, 04:02 AM | #3 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 04-09-07
Location: Jacksonville,NC
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use a welders blanket?
or the wool they use on brick ovens for insulation..... |
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12-08-2009, 06:42 AM | #4 |
Found some matches.
Join Date: 11-13-09
Location: St. Louis MO
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I use a wool blanket over the top of my country smoker. I am sure this helps but I think the main problem is the cool air being blown into the combustion chamber/cooking compartment. I am trying to work out a system that would use a flexible duct that is connected to a metal heat capturing device (kind of like how there used to be tube grates for a fireplace with a fan that blows through the tubes to blow warm air into the living quarters). The heat collector would set on the top/back area and would warm the intake air. The warmer it gets the warmer the internal temp should get in theory anyway.
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12-08-2009, 06:50 AM | #5 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 08-11-03
Location: Rocklin, CA
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12-08-2009, 07:01 AM | #6 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 10-20-05
Location: mn
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Stick Burners Rule!!!!!!!
Just thought I would get everyone cranked up. Hey, it's my job here. Smoke That!
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12-08-2009, 09:14 AM | #7 |
is one Smokin' Farker
Join Date: 03-02-08
Location: Full Time RV on the road somewhere
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12-08-2009, 09:21 AM | #8 |
Babbling Farker
Join Date: 02-19-06
Location: Kansas City
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In a cabinet style cooker, the FEC-100 is very insulated and efficent.
In the pellet grill area (www.pelletcooker.com) the Fast Eddy grill is also completely double walled. It too, is very efficient with pellets. On a Louisiana Grill, the lids are double walled. On the Country Smoker line, they are just like a traeger -- so a welding blanket is needed. For the CS, however, you have to fabricate it so that the air can get out of the exhaust ports on the rear of the cooker. Hope that helps.
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12-08-2009, 11:07 AM | #9 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 07-06-08
Location: Caldwell, Idaho
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Yeah, it's a traeger. I think I can borrow a welding blanket from work. That FE sounds like something I need.
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12-08-2009, 04:45 PM | #10 |
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Join Date: 04-08-04
Location: Marianna, FL
Name/Nickname : Tim
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I have a Lil Tex and a FEC.
The Lil Tex cooks just fine in low outside temps. It does burn a bunch of pellets though. I am thinking of getting a weldiing blanket for BOTH of the cold days down here each year Both are great cookers for what they were designed, and priced, for. TIM
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12-08-2009, 07:49 PM | #11 |
Babbling Farker
Join Date: 05-03-07
Location: Olathe KS
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I think I'm going to give our new FEC a run this weekend
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12-08-2009, 11:12 PM | #12 |
Knows what a fatty is.
Join Date: 05-02-09
Location: Basehor, KS
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Like everyone else said. A welding blanket or a grillcozy would do the trick.
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12-09-2009, 01:13 AM | #13 |
Is lookin for wood to cook with.
Join Date: 05-12-09
Location: Lockhart, TX
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I have cooked on my FEC in near freezing temps and it takes a bit more pellets but not enough to worry about.
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12-09-2009, 01:18 AM | #14 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 07-11-06
Location: Norco, Ca.
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12-09-2009, 01:44 AM | #15 |
is One Chatty Farker
Join Date: 07-06-08
Location: Caldwell, Idaho
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I'm going to look at welding blankets. It will have to wait since that a-hole furnace repair guy ripped me off for $435.00 today. His work didn't fix the problem so he came back and wanted another $300. That's nearly half of a new unit.
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