Smoking sausage on pellet grill.

[rod g15]

Going to buy a recteq Backyard Beast or a Flagship. Is there a way to lower the pit temp below 180° for smoking sausage?

 

[sandyut]

I dont think so. I think 180 is as low as it gets. I have an older RT700 (pre-flagship), and both have the same temp range listed.

You will love the Rec Teq - I would go with the flagship.

 

[SmokinEdge]

I wouldn’t get all that caught up on the temp range of pellet grills and sausages. I built a 3x3x7’ wooden smokehouse that I use for hams and sausages, but sometimes weather conditions dictate the use of a pellet machine. Sausage comes out fine, faster but fine just the same. You will enjoy the Rec Tec.

 

[JLeonard]

no answer. But love the SS. I had a 73 SS the same color.

Jim

 

[ifitsdeadsmokeit]

Set to lowest setting and crack the lid a cpl inches. It will lowerthe temp some.

 

[SmokinEdge]

Set to lowest setting and crack the lid a cpl inches. It will lowerthe temp some.

I disagree, not the best advice IMO.
With a traditional off-set you can likely get away with that door crack, but a pellet grill is a automatic machine. As such if you crack the door the machine will simply keep feeding pellets trying to overcome that and stabilize temps. This creates an even hotter fire that you continually have to mitigate.

You can however buy a maze or a smoke tube and cold smoke cured sausage for an hour or two with the door cracked open then light it up and finish the sausage. (Door closed)

 

[Winterrider]

^^^^ totally agree ^^^^

 

[chopsaw]

I do smoked sausage on my SmokeFire . I personally wouldn't crack the lid . Might cause the fire pot to overflow .
Just set it to the lowest temp and keep an eye on the internal temp of the sausage . Pull when at temp .
This was done on my pellet grill . Only took about 1 1/2 hours .

 

[rod g15]

I do smoked sausage on my SmokeFire . I personally wouldn't crack the lid . Might cause the fire pot to overflow .
Just set it to the lowest temp and keep an eye on the internal temp of the sausage . Pull when at temp .
This was done on my pellet grill . Only took about 1 1/2 hours .
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no answer. But love the SS. I had a 73 SS the same color.

Jim

It's a great car. Have owned since 1977! You should've kept yours!

 

[DougE]

My pellet grill will go down as low as 160°. That said, I usually run just a pellet tube inside when smoking sausage. I just smoke for color and poach in sous vide to finish.

If just the tube isn't getting me the color I want, I will fire up the pellet grill at 160° and run until I like the color, then poach.

 

[sandyut]

I disagree, not the best advice IMO.
With a traditional off-set you can likely get away with that door crack, but a pellet grill is a automatic machine. As such if you crack the door the machine will simply keep feeding pellets trying to overcome that and stabilize temps. This creates an even hotter fire that you continually have to mitigate.

You can however buy a maze or a smoke tube and cold smoke cured sausage for an hour or two with the door cracked open then light it up and finish the sausage. (Door closed)

Totally agree with this as well! I will just try harder and harder to get the heat up. =CF.

Run it at 180 and enjoy some sausages.

 

[chopsaw]

Right . Cracking the lid is dangerous on a pellet smoker . Like said it will " see " a lower than set temp and keep feeding the fire pot . If you're " lucky " it will put the fire out and send the grill into shutdown .
Unlucky ,,, calling the fire department .

 

[DougE]

Good advice. Cracking the lid on a pellet grill will result in the controller trying to maintain the set temp by feeding more fuel into the firepot.

 

[rod g15]

Thanks for all the info. I thought there might be a way to go into "settings" on the controller and tell it to go lower than 180°.