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    Kamado or pellet grill for Ribs this weekend??

    Well, used the pellet grill and ribs came out great! Perceptibly the same as on the kamado. Neighbors loved them. Although, learned something, that you can't rely on the meat pulling back from the ends to signal that they're done. The meat pulled back on the one rack with less total meat, but...
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    Kamado or pellet grill for Ribs this weekend??

    Ok. Well, my pellet grill touting buddy convinced me to just go pellet this weekend due to the 'set and forget' benefit, and the target audience not being able to fully appreciate a kamado smoked rack of ribs. Neighborhood party, and most are not as concerned about the amount of smoke as I am...
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    Kamado or pellet grill for Ribs this weekend??

    I have a Camp Chef smoke pro, and use the competition blend pellets from Pit Boss. Maybe I’m just not doing something right on the Akron as I usually end up chasing temps more than I’d like. If I could set and forget I’d be more apt to use it. What do u have your top and bottom set at to hold 230?
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    Kamado or pellet grill for Ribs this weekend??

    I have an Akorn kamado and had been getting some good results on ribs with plenty of smoke flavor. I got a pellet grill to handle some cooks in a simpler fashion, less fuss, and it has served very well for that purpose. I have not done ribs on it yet, but did do a pork butt a month or so ago and...
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Thx, did just that! Neighbor came down and we were just salivating. Easily the best brisket I ever crafted, and the best I’ve eaten in modern recollection. It was friggin awesome. Pulled apart like butter, but yet held together if not pulled on. Just enough marbeling to make it just rich enough...
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    So about time to pull it, still wrapped and at 202F. Looks all nice and moist, but wondering what the trick is to getting a good bark to form, or is brisket not a big bark builder?
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Well, Put my portable probe in and it is within 2deg of the grill temp so that seems accurate. Had both the grill meat probe and my portable in the point and for some reason they were reading high, also within a few deg of each other. Just wrapped it, and re-inserted the probe and it’s now 158...
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Not sure I even need to wrap it, but def don’t want it to dry out. Don’t need the wrap to help it cook though it doesn’t seem.
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Yeah, figured as much. Though seems to have blasted right through any stall that was going to happen. 5 hours in now and at 174. My kamado would not rise it up this quickly. Must be the increase in convection airflow assisted by the high fan speed of the pellet grill. Dialed it back to 225.
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Odd thing, meat is measuring 145F already 2 hrs into the cook. Put it in at 40F or so, right out of the fridge, at 5:45am. Didn’t think it would be up that high already. Expecting this to take 10-12 hrs, and guess it will stall, but still seems warm for how early it is. Grill temp set to 250.
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Great, thanks guys. The whole trimming process was certainly a learning experience. Think I did pretty well, but was all new to me. Has it on the pellet grill at 5:45am, hickory pellets. Smelling awesome. Need to get a foil pan to fit this thing, and I guess the plan is to foil pan it and cover...
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Thanks. So wrapping it in a foil pan, with some broth in there to steam, and saving all of that after the cook, is what you are referring to?
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Well thanks, I don't have all day either, for it to be running past 6-7pm. I am hoping for 45 min to an hr as well, so I might do it at 250 then. So you don't cut up your packer, just trim and throw it on? See a good bit in reading about burnt ends, cutting off the thinnest part of the flat...
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    Full Packer Brisket (Costco) & New Pellet Grill.....Don't Want to Screw It Up

    Been cooking on a kamado for a year or so, and recently added a pellet grill for consistency. I have the hopper full, all ready to get up and put the meat on and let it go all day tomorrow for dinner. I had gotten a brisket (flat only, Choice) before and it came out dry on my kamado. Looking to...
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    Best bang for buck pellet grill

    Picked up the Camp Chef ZG last night at Dick's ($399) and am amazed at the build quality. The packaging was like nothing I've seen, so well laid out to prevent damage. All you have to do is put on the very beefy legs (square tubular steel with threaded inserts, not cheap angle iron legs like a...
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