Cabin Fever
Full Fledged Farker
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2011
- Location
- Orange, VA
I'd just like to start off by saying that I love my Pit Boss Tailgater. I bought it last year at Wal-Mart when they marked them down to $150 in my area. For the money they look good, are built well and perform better than they should at that price range IMHO. I have a tradition that I always do when I try a new flavor or brand of pellets.
I throw a pork butt on with just kosher salt and butcher grind black pepper so I can really focus on the smoke flavor of the pellets. I run on smoke mode for the first 5 hours and then finish the cook at 225 without wrapping. Last weekend I finally got my hands on the new charcoal pellets from Pit Boss which seem to be all the rage right now. The end result was a pork butt that was just like the last two I smoked (one with PB hickory and the other with PB mesquite).
Really delicious and tender meat with a great smoke ring, but zero smoke flavor. Even when reheating in the oven or microwave there's no hint of smoke in the air. I've read a ton of reviews on their new charcoal pellets and people seem to really love them claiming they provide a ton of smoke flavor and or taste exactly like charcoal. I just don't get it. They taste just like the other brands of PB pellets that I've tried. On the other hand, Lumberjack's 100% hickory and competition blend always provide a ton of smoke flavor not really that different from when I had a WSM. Am I missing something? Am I the only one who feels this way? I know a lot of people dig PB pellets, but I've never been happy with them. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the pellet grill twilight zone. :wacko:
I throw a pork butt on with just kosher salt and butcher grind black pepper so I can really focus on the smoke flavor of the pellets. I run on smoke mode for the first 5 hours and then finish the cook at 225 without wrapping. Last weekend I finally got my hands on the new charcoal pellets from Pit Boss which seem to be all the rage right now. The end result was a pork butt that was just like the last two I smoked (one with PB hickory and the other with PB mesquite).
Really delicious and tender meat with a great smoke ring, but zero smoke flavor. Even when reheating in the oven or microwave there's no hint of smoke in the air. I've read a ton of reviews on their new charcoal pellets and people seem to really love them claiming they provide a ton of smoke flavor and or taste exactly like charcoal. I just don't get it. They taste just like the other brands of PB pellets that I've tried. On the other hand, Lumberjack's 100% hickory and competition blend always provide a ton of smoke flavor not really that different from when I had a WSM. Am I missing something? Am I the only one who feels this way? I know a lot of people dig PB pellets, but I've never been happy with them. Sometimes I feel like I'm in the pellet grill twilight zone. :wacko: