Yeah, I hadn't watched any videos of the P&S. Looking at this, the Yoder is in a different class. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pitts+and+spitts+1250+
I wish I could afford the 1250!
Yeah, I hadn't watched any videos of the P&S. Looking at this, the Yoder is in a different class. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pitts+and+spitts+1250+
Smoked chicken legs on the Mak. Smoked them for 30 minutes then bumped the temp up to 400 deg for a little over 30 more minutes to get them crispy.
They definitely got some smoke on them but not too much. They were great!
After bragging about my Pit Boss in another thread, I ran into my first problem with my Tailgater. I put a 6 pound butt on this morning at 8:00 using Pit Boss brand hickory pellets with the temp set to 225. Everything went great all day until I checked it around 3:30 and noticed the temp had dropped below 100 degrees. The fire was out and the burn pot was filled with unburned pellets. The fan was still running, but I went ahead and turned the cooker off and I'm currently finishing the butt in the oven.
I always clean/vacuum out the burn pot after every cook and the temp today was in the high 50's with next to no wind. This was my first time using Pit Boss brand pellets as I usually use Lumberjack's 100% hickory. I'm really stumped on this one. Any ideas what could have caused this?
After bragging about my Pit Boss in another thread, I ran into my first problem with my Tailgater. I put a 6 pound butt on this morning at 8:00 using Pit Boss brand hickory pellets with the temp set to 225. Everything went great all day until I checked it around 3:30 and noticed the temp had dropped below 100 degrees. The fire was out and the burn pot was filled with unburned pellets. The fan was still running, but I went ahead and turned the cooker off and I'm currently finishing the butt in the oven.
I always clean/vacuum out the burn pot after every cook and the temp today was in the high 50's with next to no wind. This was my first time using Pit Boss brand pellets as I usually use Lumberjack's 100% hickory. I'm really stumped on this one. Any ideas what could have caused this?
After bragging about my Pit Boss in another thread, I ran into my first problem with my Tailgater. I put a 6 pound butt on this morning at 8:00 using Pit Boss brand hickory pellets with the temp set to 225. Everything went great all day until I checked it around 3:30 and noticed the temp had dropped below 100 degrees. The fire was out and the burn pot was filled with unburned pellets. The fan was still running, but I went ahead and turned the cooker off and I'm currently finishing the butt in the oven.
I always clean/vacuum out the burn pot after every cook and the temp today was in the high 50's with next to no wind. This was my first time using Pit Boss brand pellets as I usually use Lumberjack's 100% hickory. I'm really stumped on this one. Any ideas what could have caused this?
Thanks for the input so far guys. I always let my cooker preheat for about 20 minutes before throwing the meat on and changing to desired temp. I noticed these hickory PB pellets have a lot of ash while my bags of Lumberjack 100% hickory had little to none. Not sure if that has anything to do with my flame out. Also, after finishing the butt in the oven, it doesn't smell or taste anything like the butts I've done in the past with Lumberjack hickory. It's a lighter slightly off putting taste that's hard to describe. Meanwhile the butts smoked using Lumberjack more or less taste like they were off a stick burner.
edit - I always keep my P setting at the default 4
Not sure, but hopefully it was just a flukey thing. If this was your first time with PB pellets perhaps they just produce to much ash. Sounds like you done low n slows with LJ with not issue? I have never had issues with LJ pellets.
Sorry for the late reply guys. I did a test burn on the tailgater last night once again using the PB hickory pellets with no meat for about 6 hours and I didn't have any problems. Outside temp dipped into the low-mid 40's and it was a little windy, but the tailgater had no issue keeping the temp +/- 25 degrees of the 225 set point. I even set it to 300 for an hour and it ran fine.
Hopefully that last cook was just a fluke. I must say though, I'm REALLY disappointed in the PB hickory pellets. On a scale of 1-10 the smoke flavor was maybe a 2. Anyone else find this to be true? Would it even be worth it to try their other flavors of pellets? If their hickory is this weak I could only imagine how weak/subtle of a flavor their fruit blends would impart. Anyone have any luck with their competition blend?
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I've been trying a lot of pellet brands since I got my GMG DB. I really like Cookinpellets and Lumberjack, but both are almost $1/lb. in my area. I buy Kingsford Blue Bag during the Labor Day and Memorial Day sales for $.25/lb. Not comparing the two, but is there a traditional time and place (Labor Day, HD for briquettes) to find pellets on sale? I like to buy in bulk and have around 400lbs. of charcoal in my garage. I used to use 500lb/yr. but since I got my Daniel Boone, I think that should last me a while as I'm burning a lot of pellets instead. Would like to stack some bags of pellets beside the charcoal stack.