What is preferred pellets, chunks or sawdust ?

[bang4dabuck]

Or does it depend what you are smoking ?

 

[fire it up]

I think it depends on what kind of smoker you have.
When I had my Electric Brinkman Gourmet I used chips and small chunks, now that I use an sNp I use large chunks that I cut to size myself.

 

[treegje]

I use sawdust only for cold smoking

pellets and chunks for warm smoke

that is how I use them

 

[morkdach]

i'm a watt burner and use chips just depends on what you use for heat

 

[carpetride]

When I had the Amerique I used small chunks 1x2 ish

 

[bang4dabuck]

Royal Oak. Thought it would depend on where the heat was coming from.

I found a place that seems cheap for pellets if you can measure smoke by the pound. Not sure about the shipping costs though. They got Alder, Apple, Cherry, Pecan.

http://www.barbecuewood.com/-strse-1...lbs/Detail.bok

 

[carpetride]

You might want to experiment a bit before buying a bunch...pellets burn quick.

 

[DanMcG]

I use dust, chips and chunks with my electric's and chunks only in the ECB

 

[jimr]

Anyone know how they burn in a Big Kahuna??

 

[nickelmore]

I have a homemade "kahuna type" generator and use a combination of pellets and chips.

What I do is make alternating layers, about 1/2 to 1 inch thick starting with the pellets.

I am going to try starting with a layer of pellets, put in a 3 inch chunk and surround that we pellets to see how that works.

 

[carpetride]

I'll have to search the term Big Kahuna as I don't what know that is. I know that pellets burn fast as heck in the ash pan of my Stumps though and use chunks instead. I buy pellets from Chris at cookinpellets.com the best I've used in my opinion....I use them in my Traeger.

 

[bang4dabuck]

Bought Traegor pellets from

http://doitbest.com/Main.aspx?Ntt=tr...chall&N=6&Ne=3

NO SHIPPING !!!

Cookin only had the mix. Is that what you use ? How would you compare them to Traegor ?

 

[carpetride]

Chris has only had the mix since last spring due to supply problems. I've used his Hickory, Cherry, and the Mix. I really liked them all. The mix is a mellow blend in my opinion and I believe it is what most of his restaurant customers use. I have also used Candy Sues (http://www.bbqrsdelight.com/) but when I was lookiing they were more expensive. I can find these in Orschelins around here.

Traegers pellets are made with a high percentage of alder wood (60-80% if recall correctly). I very much prefer the pellets without the filler such cookin's and bbqrs.