I have a question about pellets

Pellets are just small pieces of compressed wood. They will burn like small pieces of wood. The least expensive pellets for the NW folks are from Traeger at Mr. Angel, Oregon. I pay $16.00 for a 40 lb bag without freight.

I would think they would burn too fast in a regular offset or WSM type cooker. I have lots of pellet inventory but still use mesquite chunks in my egg and WSM's. I save the pellets for the FE100.

They can be put in afoil packet, poke some holes in the top and put it on top of charcoal, lava rocks, flavorizer bars, ect. With a limited amount of oxygen available, they will just smolder, not burn, producing smoke that will rise out of the holes that were poked in the foil.

Curt

Okay. How much smoking can a person do with a fourty lb. bag do you know? I plan to smoke approx. 200 lbs of ribs a day. Thank you so much for helping me I truely appreciate it. Re

It uses about 1 lb/hr. The best place to buy them is from Fast Eddy. He charges $10/bag plus shipping.

You need to look at a bigger cooker. Where in Washington are you?

I'd say Maree101 needs two FE100 or perhaps the FE2000, a Fast Eddy rotisserie pellet oven. Look at Fast Eddy's web site. Last I checked they sold for $15,000 on a trailer plus shipping From KC, MO. It has 3 Treager pots. So I guess that would be 3 pounds of pellets per hour in a full oven.

Specifications:

Food Racks...........Fifteen(15) plated racks 12"x 60".
Food Racks...........optional Stainless Steel.
Unit Dimensions ....85" wide x 87" deep x 81" tall.
BTU/HR................108,000
UnitWeight.............1800 lbs
Hopper Capacity.....60 lbs
Power requirement..1000 watts @ 120 VAC
Auto-start...............Standard
Construction ..........14 ga. liner / 22 ga. 304 Stainless wrapper.

Okay . I will have to look up Fast Eddy then. Thank you! Re