Greetings from Colorado!

[el pescador]

Howdy all!

I'm from Colorado Springs, CO, and am an avid fly fisherman and hunter.  I'm fairly new to smoking meats; I've had a Masterbilt 30" electric smoker for about a year.  I've had good luck with pork butts, sausage, game hens and turkey breasts ... also totally ruined a very nice brisket, and gotten a strictly "ok" outcome on #2, heh.  I've done some ears of corn and a few other veggies as well, and those have actually turned out pretty well; brisket seems to be my nemesis.

I unexpectedly hit a mutually beneficial deal and traded some new fishing gear for a new Traeger Elite 2200, which is in a box waiting to be assembled.

I have yet to even assemble the Traeger; I was searching for what sort of pellets you could use in one (other than the Traeger official variety) and the first link I found was to an older post here.  I'd looked at them (as well as some other, more expensive ones, like Yoder Smokers), but wasn't planning a purchase for a while (like 6 months).

Wish I had time to get it going tomorrow; there's a 50 degree temperature swing coming Friday night - early Saturday ...

 

[SmokinAl]

Welcome to SMF!

Glad to have you with us!

Al

 

[mike5051]

Welcome to the site!  Looking forward to your smokes!

Mike

 

[gary s]

  Good morning and welcome to the forum from a cold and windy day here in East Texas, and the best site on the web. Lots of              great people with tons of information on just about everything.

        Gary

 

[smokingmymeat]

Welcome, you've come to the right place. I bought a Traeger about a year ago and I found that the Traeger pellets didn't seem to impart any flavour. I found a thread on here about that and purchased one the brands that were talked about and that did the trick. As I have been here in England since March I don't remember the name. I think it was "Mountain -------" something or another. Sorry about that. Good luck to you

 

[el pescador]

Thanks all.  Did a pork butt in my old Masterbilt the other night, for a party; did it in my garage after wrapping the unit in a welder's blanket.

-21F at night, didn't think I could break the Traeger out.  And didn't feel like putting it together in that cold, either!