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Received the Louisiana LG 700 pellet smoker/grill at 3pm today 25 July 2014. The delivery vehicle was a full 53ft semi. I had told the dispatcher about the construction on our street, but he didn’t pass that on to the driver. When the driver got to our street he saw what was going on and took it upon himself to have one of the construction workers with a skid loader with a bucket to take it from the semi to my driveway (that was nice of both men).

I unpacked the smoker and checked it for damage and missing parts (there were none). Started the assembly process at 3:30pm and finished up at 4:30pm. The job can be completed by one person and a #2 Phillips screwdriver.

Started the initial burn off/seasoning at 500F then after 10 minutes took it to 600F.

Starting to unpack


unpacking on back porch


Started assembly


Assembly 2  #1 and 2 took 10 minutes


assembly 3 took about 10 minutes (finding where the wires go took the time)


Total time for the build 1 hour by one person in 100F degree heat


Burn-in at 500F for 10 minutes then to 600F for 20 minutes.


The burn-in used about 1 1/4 gal of pellets (didn't think to weigh them).

Planning first cook for tomorrow Saturday the 26 of July 2014 of a 8# brisket using a combination of Maple, cherry and Hickory (a competition blend from Menard's 40# for $22 plus tax.

Happy smoking to all !!!

2nd Update

First Pellet Cooker Brisket

Put the brisket in at 0800 hrs, at 200F. At 1400 hrs I pulled it as it had reached internal temp of 150 then placed it in beef broth and foil until it reached the IT of 182. At 1500 hrs it had reached temp and was pulled and placed in a hot cooler (I heated the cooler for an hour by filling with hot water and dumping it out just before placing the brisket in it).

The LG 700 used 1.6 lbs of pellets per hour for the smoke (total of 11.2 lbs). I weighed the bag of pellets after recovering what I could from the hopper after shutdown. I know shorter cooks will take less pellets but at least I have an idea of what rate the cooker consumes pellets at 200F setting.

Ambient air temp was 100 to 102F for this smoke.

After sitting for 2 hours in the holding chest, it was time to eat!

Ready to start a smoke bath.


Smoke me for a while


Relaxed and ready for all


All 7 of us enjoyed the brisket, and we have some left for tomorrow.