I will respectfully disagree. Lumber Jack utilizes 100% specified wood species. And printed on the bags that I buy, it says 'Lumber Jack Competition Blend Pellets'. The product is a perfect mixture (blend) of one-third each Maple, Hickory, and Cherry, it is suitable for use with any food, making it a versatile option for your next backyard barbeque. There is NO filler in this product as there is in the 'Hickory Blend' product.
Nope. I am using the Competition Blend which is 100% of the flavor woods listed and no red oak as is used in the Hickory Blend.
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From the Lumberjack website and from the Competition Blend (MHC) description: "Our most popular blend – ideal for all food preparation."
Very well.
And I will respectfully disagree with you. I didn't use the word "filler" in my above post. Never said that all of their "blends" contained "fillers". Never said that there was "filler" wood in the Competition Blend.
.....There are a couple others that do the same, but the majority of pellet makers are using up to 70% filler wood (red oak is very popular for this) and you get very little, if any, flavor from the filler wood.
I stated in part response to that; "There's a reason why these "blends" don't offer much in the way of smoke flavor by themselves."
With the words; "these blends", I was referring to the ones which you had just referenced, and had stated used up to "70% filler wood".
My other point is that any of Lumberjack's brands labeled "blend" are not 100%
one wood type. Be those other woods "fillers" or otherwise.
I just bought this bag of pellets a few minutes ago at my local Field and Stream.
It says 100% Hickory. The only type of wood in these pellets is hickory. It is not a "blend".
What I said earlier was; "But if the wood is 100% of what they say it is on the bag, well then the bag won't say
blend."
And indeed, that bag above, does not say "blend". Be it "blended" with "fillers" or other hardwoods or fruitwoods.
However this one below does indeed say "blend". Which lets us know that it's not 100% of anything.
Also, the point that I was attempting to make with the links was that the reason why the MHC and other "blends" are stated to be "blends" is because there is more than one type of wood used to make it. Be the additional wood red oak, alder, "fillers", maple, etc.
I wasn't saying that all "blends" contain "filler" woods. My favorite pellet, Cookinpellets Perfect Mix, is a "blend", though it has no oak, alder or "filler" woods in it.
The last bag pictured below, Maple, Hickory, Cherry, is obviously not and cannot be 100% one wood type, hence the designation "blend" on the bag as opposed to the bag that I just bought which says "100% Hickory", and the word "blend" is nowhere to be found on it. Hickory and nothing else. Be it another hardwood or softwood.
I will respectfully disagree. Lumber Jack utilizes 100% specified wood species. And printed on the bags that I buy, it says 'Lumber Jack Competition Blend Pellets'. The product is a perfect mixture (blend) of one-third each Maple, Hickory, and Cherry, it is suitable for use with any food, making it a versatile option for your next backyard barbeque. There is NO filler in this product as there is in the 'Hickory Blend' product.
100% "specified wood species". They aren't "specifying" one wood species, on the Competition
Blend bag below, but indeed they are referring to three.
33% maple, 33% Hickory, 33% Cherry,. But not 100% of anything.
However they are in fact, "specifying" one wood species on the "Hickory Blend" bag, that one species they state on the bag being "Hickory". But we know that there are other species of wood in the bag labeled "Hickory Blend", namely oak.
I will respectfully disagree. Lumber Jack utilizes 100% specified wood species.
Not necessarily. Or rather "yes" and "no".
They "specify" Hickory on the Hickory Blend bag. A picture of it is above and in this post. But that's not 100% of what's in that bag. In fact only 40% of the wood content is hickory. Those pellets are made using portions of 100% hickory, but they have
mostly another type of wood in them too. Hence the pellets are referred to as a blend.
To wit, the bag labeled “Hickory Blend”, has less hickory in it 40%, than it does oak 60%, even though “”hickory” is the species stated on the bag. and the word "oak" is nowhere to be found on the front of it.
So in that 20lb bag of “Hickory Blend”, by weight, one would expect 12lbs of that to be oak and only 8lbs to be hickory. If I sold you a 20 lb bag of mixed pellets and 12 lbs of the pellets in the bag were 100% oak, and only 8lbs of the pellets in the bag were 100% hickory, am I selling you a bag of "hickory blend" pellets. Or am I selling you a bag of oak pellets with some hickory mixed in them?
So the statement “Lumberjack uses 100% of the wood species specified” is not quite accurate. The wood species specified on their “Hickory Blend” bag is of course “hickory”. But in fact less than half of what’s in that bag is actually hickory.
