Pellet Prices???

Traeger pellets are a little cheaper than the Cookshack pellets - $33.99 with shipping included. You get them in pretty quick too as there is a distributor in Alabama.

Eddie sells his pellets for $10.00 per(40#) bag, plus shipping is around $10.00 per bag. Minimum order to get this price is 400 pounds. I cook on my pit at least five times a week. The pellets last a long time.

I, and a few others here in Florida, just ordered and received a pallet (50 bags) of pellets from Eddy. We paid $10 per bag for the pellets and $8 per bag for delivery. It would have been $2 perbag cheaper if we had a commercial address with a loading dock to have them delivered to.

To me, getting the whole pallet is the way to go. Just work it out with other pellet burners there and share the cost. I took 15 out of the 50. Should last me for the rest of the year easy.

John

jrl,
try bbq'ers delight.
two 20 pound resealable bags ups included is 33.99 plus candy sue is great to deal with and she helped me achieve just the temp ranges that i wanted and the flavor profile that i was looking for.
web addy is www.bbqrsdelight.com
jack

Not to knock www.bbqrsdelight.com, but I get 40lb bags shipped for $33.99 from Traeger where you are saying they only give a 20lb bag. While I aggree the pallet price is way better; but I cannot store that much (nor do I know more than 1 or 2 other pellet grill owners) and I only go through about 4-6 bags a year. So Traeger seems to give one of the cheapest per bag prices shipped for small quantities. They also give you a free bag if you buy four which makes it $27.20 per bag shipped.

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Originally posted by drunk_j:
[qb] Traeger pellets are a little cheaper than the Cookshack pellets - $33.99 with shipping included. You get them in pretty quick too as there is a distributor in Alabama. [/qb]

Actually, Cookshack sells Traeger pellets. This is part of the contract between Cookshack and Traeger for the rest of the parts they get from Traeger.

John

It looks like they would have gotten together on price too.

drunk_j,
might want to re-read my post.
think it says two bags
jack

Opps, my bad. I must have been drunk. Ok, same price then unless you grab the four bags and get the fifth free.

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Originally posted by RibDog:
Actually, Cookshack sells Traeger pellets. This is part of the contract between Cookshack and Traeger for the rest of the parts they get from Traeger.

Yeah, I read that somewhere. But after shipping Cookshack is still almost $4 more for me.

i think there is one important thing that has been missed.
What is the base type of wood the pellet has been blended with?
Myself i find the taste of alder wood to be objectionable and i was never able to get my heat range on smoke down to the 145-165f area. by the same token i had to be able to go over 400f for chicken.
so while price is important the ability to be able to hit those heat ranges is more important to me.
also since i live in an area of high humidity the ability to seal up an open bag is also important.
as far as a quantity discount goes everyone offers that.
so i guess thats why i use the pellets i do and simply order them more often (plus it allows me to pick the manufacturer's brain lol)
jack

I guess I don't understand your situation on the smoke setting, Jack. The smoker setting on mine runs right in the 135-145 area and using Eddy's pellets. Now I have not run the smoker up to 400 but I had it set on 350 tonight to cook some chicken. No problem whatsoever.

John

I use Eddy's pellets. During the winter, my smoke setting runs between 130* to 150* In the summer, it runs between 180* to 200*. I have no problem reaching temps over 400* anytime.

ribdog and fast freddy
the point i was trying to make was for jrl to experiment around.
it seems all 3 of us have found pellets that we like and suit our styles of cooking and i was just trying to encourage jrl to find a pellet manufacturer or heck even a mix of different manufactured pellets to acheive the results he wanted.
sorry if i offend you
jack

but
i will stand by my dislike of the alder taste of some pellets and from that i will not back down nor apologize
jack

$1700/T. seems a bit pricey to me. They must be a mighty fine pellet.

Stone Blue Q, remind me to send some of Eddie's pellets with you when you come down to pick up your hogs.

Never Trust a Fat Volleyball Player

Prison chef.
There was no offense taken. I am very happy with Eddy's hickory pellets and price. And here is the big one. Eddy's service to his customers. I tried a bag of Traeger hickory pellets. They were dark brown compared to the light color of Eddy's. Also, I didn't like the smell of the Traeger pellets while burning. My wife noticed the different scent too.

I recall paying around $600 to $700 for a pallet (a ton) from Eddy. It's a lot cheaper than logs for the stick burner.

No offense was taken Jack. I was just trying to relate my own experience with Eddy's pellets. I have not tried any of Candy Sue's so I cannot say how they are.

IMHO, if you are going to say some pellet has a alder taste to it, would it not help all of us to post your findings? Hopefully this forum is here to help each other with own experiences.

Again, no offense taken.

John

Pellet prices are all pretty close in price actually. 40# from me is a penny cheaper than from Traeger. Ton price of my pellets is the same as FE's price. FE has good pellets, but not many flavors. Alder vs. oak and amount of flavorwood dust is the main difference between BBQr's Delight wood pellet fuel & Traeger. Alder most definitely has a unique taste, kinda musty. Oak gives a beautiful smoke color, but doesn't interfer with the flavor of the other wood. Plus, our oak sawdust is very, very clean yielding less of an ash buildup problem.

At the Jack last year, I had an interesting conversation with a fellow from Chicago writing a book on ribs and different smoke flavors generated by different woods. He ordered every flavor Traeger had. He reported that everything he cooked tasted the same and he couldn't figure out why. It was alder...he was not using a pellet cooker, just using the pellets for smoke on a gasser, cooking bare pork chops.

Thank you for sharing that Candy Sue.

John

Interesting?

yes for me it is interesting. of course i found the very dry read of about 600 pages of "on food and cooking" by mcgee to be interesting. the entire book is on nothing but the physics and chemistry of food reaction to heat and of course all the little additives that go along with properly preparing food. this tome has been of considerable help to me in my career and i am sure it is what made me search out pellets that were not made from (what i found out later) were an alder base.
the part about cooking that i love, and it doesn't matter if it classic german or french cuisine or bbq is the variables. the variables are what causes you to step back and think and in fact, for me, are the only reason that i love to cook. the beauty of the four hour written examination, that the american culinary federation required, to recieve my chef's papers was that it was all encompassing and covered every area.
so yes i find any in depth discussion of the technical aspects of cooking to be interesting.
so after this lengthy response, you bet your sweet bippie it is interesting to me this also explains why i like dealing with candy sue. she has taken a lot of time to explain to me the technical aspects of producing a pellet and i find the whole process to be incredibly interesting and i find it to be rather wonderful that someone would take the time to explain those aspects to me!!!!
jack