1. If so what is your favorite combination of pellets?
2. Do you buy a pre-made blend of pellets if so what is it?
3. If not one of the above what is your go to type of pellet.........
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I use only the 100% Hickory pellets that I get directly from Fast Eddie. I love that they are made with 100% Hickory wood!
I use a home-blended mix of Cookshack's hickory & mesquite, plus Bear Mountain's apple pellets for most cooks in FEC100 & PG500. When doing cheese or bacon, I only use the apple pellets. None of my pellets are 100% - all are a blend of the "flavor wood" plus a filler. Bear Mountain uses alder, and I believe Cookshack uses oak as their fillers. So I guess I'm really using 5 types of wood, which is just too much to think about !!
I blend my own, Lumber Jack 100% hickory and 100% cherry. I make it a 50/50 blend and use it for all my smokes. The only thing I use differently is apple for my cheese.
No, I don't blend pellets. I can detect a difference in scent when pellets are burning, but not flavor on the finished product. Smoke tastes like smoke to me. The exception may be mesquite which I never use.
As a result, I'm not very selective about the wood type.
I happen to have bear mountain cherry in my pg500. I cooked a flatiron steak last night and am amazed at how it looked. It had a perfect dark to black surface (not burned) and slightly rare inside. This is what we have tried to accomplish on gas but rarely could. I beleive the meat has a much improved flavor also.
Right now i'm using B&B (Candy's) competition blend from Academy Sports 50 cents/pound Going to order some of Eddies 100% hickory from BBQ island Cookin Pellets (Amazon) has also come out with their 100% hickory and cherry in 40# bags but haven't tried them yet
I use Lumberjack, since I can get that locally for a good price. Usually use the MHC blend. (Maple, Hickory, Cherry). Been using their 100% Maple lately, also pretty good. Didn't like their OHC blend (Oak, Hickory, Cherry) too much ash.