Recent content by tongatim

Correction on my last post: Dan is the meat guy at the Bellingham Cash 'n Carry, not Dave.  He ordered me some CAB briskets which I went to pick up today.  Bad news: they hadn't come in. Good news (actually great news): while I was searching their pile of select briskets to see if I could find a...

Yep, I used to get Bear Mountain pellets at Cash n' Carry when I had a RecTec.  They use alder as base wood, but are high quality and inexpensive. I'd use them alone for ribs. For brisket and pork butts I'd use either use a pure hickory pellet, or hickory/oak blend, then switch to cheaper Bear...

Please let us all know what you find out from RecTec.  They are good people. Tim

Yep, Skorepeo, that coincides with my finding of good correlation between readings at the center of the grill and the RecTec's probe readout.  And I have also found that temperatures do remain very steady during the cook.  I have found the Xtreme Smoke function to not add much in the way of...

With a properly functioning pellet smoker, even one very well built like the RecTec, the temperature varies widely at various locations and heights above the grill.  On my RecTec, this can be as much as 100 degrees difference at various points and heights around the grill. This is the nature of...

Hi, Tim here. Live in Bellingham.  Grew up in Georgia, so love the deep hickory slow smoked meats. Pork butts and briskets are my favorite, but ribs and chicken get their share of grill time.   Love the fabulous scene here in Bellingham, especially the jazz, WWU, and great brewery choices. If...

New member to this forum, living in Bellingham, WA, between Seattle and Vancouver, BC.   As a kid growing up in Georgia, our family feasted once a year around Christmas time on pork butts smoked in an old backyard smokehouse by an old guy who pitched a pup tent next to his stack of hickory and...

Amen to Frog's spiel about not fretting too much about precise temps.  If you relax and enjoy the cook, you'll want to cook more. If you cook more, you'll get to know your machine's peculiarities and how to adjust to get even better and more consistent results. And you just keep traveling around...

Here's another angle on minimizing the cost of pellets.  Bear Mountain pellets are high quality and work well in all pellet smokers, and are very inexpensive. I get them for about 50 cents a pound at our local Cash and Carry. However, all of their different "flavors" are built on a base of 75%...

I've had my Rec Tec for a year.  Overall, I'm very happy with it. My opinions: PROS: -Very high quality for the price -Customer service is indeed superb.  When the inevitable issues with a new piece of machinery have arisen, I've been able to get through to one of the owners almost...