Ever wonder what happens when you're a dumbass and you leave your pellets outside?

[elohel]

This is what happens:

The little red arrow there is for reference.. that's what a normal pellet looks like (one of the few that survived).

I had my bags of pellets (yeah, ALL of them, I'm a moron) sitting outside with the tops off because I had just been experimenting with different kinds in the smoker. It wound up snowing a little bit on the bags, and then melted down and ruined about 99.9% of the pellets (my cherry had a small handful on the bottom that survived the assault). The rest of them absorbed the water and exploded in size/shriveled. I guess Todd is in luck, I'm almost all out of pellets now so I'll be ordering more soon. Kind of a bummer because I went from having ~10 lbs of pellets to a small handful over a stupid/careless mistake. Live and learn!

 

[alblancher]

You don't think spreading them out under an incandescent lamp or heat lamp would dry them out?  At least be able to use them as sawdust.

 

[scarbelly]

Ya the moisture really kills them fast. I had a pan of them outside and it rained - same thing 

 

[terry colwell]

You don't think spreading them out under an incandescent lamp or heat lamp would dry them out?  At least be able to use them as sawdust.

I would try to dry them out and use them, you can't lose anything by trying at this point. forced experiments are good things some times.

 

[roller]

 

[elohel]

Most of them grew to monsterous proportions and fell out of the bag lol. The stuff that stayed in the bags I kept and I'll see about drying them. I guess I'm not too bummed since this cherry/apple/pecan stuff really isn't to my taste. I can't actually taste much smoke when I use them. I'll probably order some mesquite/hickory pellets this time around

 

[harleysmoker]

I read a post not long ago of someone taking pellets and adding water to soften them, grind them up, then drying them to make sawdust for the Amazen smoker when they ran out. May be worth a shot.