So I shopped around and finally ordered a half-ton from Ms. Candy at BBQ delight. Yesterday, me and my youngest son made 621 mile round trip to Pineville Arkansas and picked up our second half-ton, this time all in pecan.
We got to spend some time with Ms. Candy, a true BBQ champion. She is a very gracious lady. And BBQ delight is a wonderful company. In fact, BBQ Delight and Cookshack actually donated gifts for the troops at our US Army Chaplain School BBQ Cook-off back in 2012.
Any way, it was a great day and we have plenty of pellets now tucked in my special cabinet in our finished basement.
By the way, If you do the math at ¾ pound an hour (and probally more like ½ pound an hour the way I smoke), the previous 1500 pounds allowed me to smoke nearly 1900 hours. That is 79 days straight without a break or 11 weeks straight. That’s a lot of runtime. I can’t see my old Masterbuilt Electric Smokehouse holding up to that kind of use. I wish I would have kept a meat log of all the product I’ve ran thru the FEC. I know I’ve done over 250 racks of ribs, 1000 pounds of pork-butt, 80 briskets,500 pounds of Jerky; smoked 550 pounds of home-cured bacon and lots of chicken, sausage, burgers, dogs etc, etc. And unless I miss my guess, I’ll probably get plenty of responses that assure me that my FEC is just getting broken in and has years of service remaining. What a machine, thanks Cookshack & Fast Eddy.
