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Barbecue (alt.food.barbecue) Discuss barbecue and grilling--southern style "low and slow" smoking of ribs, shoulders and briskets, as well as direct heat grilling of everything from burgers to salmon to vegetables. |
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Pellet Smokers
Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet smoker,
(Traeger Grills) I have been trying to get the lo down of them that is unbiased like the guy trying to sell it to me. Really appreciate any input. Thanks Joe |
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On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:00:28 GMT, "Joseph Rizzo"
> wrote: >Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet smoker, >(Traeger Grills) > >I have been trying to get the lo down of them that is unbiased like the guy >trying to sell it to me. Really appreciate any input. > You have to buy special pellets to run it. That's enough to put me off buying one. -- Kevin S. Wilson Tech Writer at a University Somewhere in Idaho "Anything, when cooked in large enough batches, will be vile." --Dag Right-square-bracket-gren, in alt.religion.kibology |
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"Joseph Rizzo" > wrote in message ink.net... > Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet smoker, > (Traeger Grills) > > I have been trying to get the lo down of them that is unbiased like the guy > trying to sell it to me. Really appreciate any input. > > Thanks > > Joe Around here you'll hear it's a lazy, expensive way to cook. But I've heard they are an excellent cooking device. _________ ht_redneck |
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Joseph Rizzo wrote:
> Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet > smoker, (Traeger Grills) I'll start. Pro: It can turn out good bbq. Con: You are limited to one type of fuel, which is expensive and a severe limitation, IMO. |
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Joseph Rizzo wrote: > Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet smoker, > (Traeger Grills) > > I have been trying to get the lo down of them that is unbiased like the guy > trying to sell it to me. Really appreciate any input. > > Thanks > > Joe Joe: As a newbie to the group, and someone who has used (and will continue to use) an offset for 10 years, I don't want to offend anyone. If you like BBQ, and can't, or don't have the ability to spend hours maintaining the fire, drink beer, maybe smoke a cigar and have a sip of single malt (if it's after noon, of course), the Traeger has some definite advantages. Trager has all ready done with pellets what the BBQGuru control is doing for other cookers. My experience is good (rented large Traegers, have friend with 'backyard' model, if you like low/slow without worrying about feeding a fire, they do a good job. There are options on controls, lower end have "smoke", "medium" & "high" settings (you can do a steak). I believe they have an upgrade option on control unit that gives you more choice as to temperature to maintain. Pretty nice, plug it in, fill hopper with pellets, turn on, and it ignites, and goes to selected temperature. On low (smoke) settings, you do get smoke until pellets re-ignite. On higher temperatures, little smoke, tinge of taste, similar to good briquets. Pellets are nice if you don't have source of good wood, and their high BTU value means it goes a long way. The rental unit I used had 3 stacked grates, was 3' deep, 5' wide and about 5' high, and two (maybe three) burner units, and in a 4-5 hour cook @ 250 deg. (85# of tri-tips) consumed less than a 40# bag of pellets. Dick |
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Joseph Rizzo wrote:
> Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet smoker, > (Traeger Grills) > > I have been trying to get the lo down of them that is unbiased like the guy > trying to sell it to me. Really appreciate any input. If you're considering pellet smokers you should take a look at the FE models. He recently merged with cookshack, which means you'll get good quality control and customer service. One the plus side, pellket smokers are simple and convenient. On the minus side, you need to use prefab pellets. Fortunately you can get the pellets from many different suppliers. FE smokers http://www.cookshackamerica.com/Sear...?categoryid=98 Pellet forum http://forum.cookshackamerica.com/cg...ubb=forum;f=23 -- Reg email: RegForte (at) (that free MS email service) (dot) com |
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Dick Wiegand wrote:
> ... and in a 4-5 hour cook @ 250 deg. (85# of > tri-tips) consumed less than a 40# bag of pellets. 5 hours cook used almost 40#s of pellets?!?! Pass!!!! -- -frohe Life is too short to be in a hurry |
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Dick Wiegand wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I mentioned that this was a rather large, trailer > mounted unit with 2-3 burners. If you were to scale dow to their > backyard unit, I figure you would have used around 10#'s of pellets, > cost = $4.00 > > Dick > > frohe wrote: > >> Dick Wiegand wrote: >>> ... and in a 4-5 hour cook @ 250 deg. (85# of >>> tri-tips) consumed less than a 40# bag of pellets. >> >> 5 hours cook used almost 40#s of pellets?!?! Pass!!!! >> -- >> -frohe >> Life is too short to be in a hurry Well to me, pellets are something I shoot out of my pellet gun. Or maybe something for roaches or rats. Jack Curry -yeah, it's sarcastic- |
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"Joseph Rizzo" > wrote in message ink.net... > Does anyone have any advice on the pro's & con's to buying a pellet smoker, > (Traeger Grills) > > I have been trying to get the lo down of them that is unbiased like the guy > trying to sell it to me. Really appreciate any input. > > Thanks > > Joe Well, I own a Traeger and I love it. I can throw a butt on before bed and w/o a worry get consistent results for lunch the next day. My Traeger has a temp set dial (not the original 3-stage switch). Temp range is Smoke (about 180) to 450. On warm days I can get it to over 500 at the dome if I need to. The con is the price of pellets. If you have to order them by mail they do get a bit spendy. Do some research and see if you can find a wholesaler in your area that could give you a price break. I have enough friends here locally to justify a 4 hour drive to the warehouse to pick them up once a year. Joe |
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