Pellet Cooker, glorified oven or BBQ Pit, reposted

istock74 · BBQ Pro Joined: 28 Jun 2007 Posts: 965 Location: Logan, IA

This post has really become detrimental to my productivity at work today. Ive spent so much time checking it, I might as well go home and cook some Q!! Very Happy

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OddThomas · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

dabaslab · BBQ Pro Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 515

Yeah this thread got so whacked that I had several of the staff members here at work in my office reading it. I guess we will all need to take a vacation day.

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skybob · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Hell, I might as well chime back in. I Q'd on a stickburner for many years, took some time to get it dialed in to make Q to suit my tastes. After that, I could reproduce the flavor, bark, smoke ring, tenderness probably 85% of the time I Q'd. Sometimes I just plain screwed up or got some meat that wasn't up to par.
THEN, I decided that I needed a little more sleep, beauty or otherwise and got a Traeger. Let me tell you, if you think there isn't a learning curve on them, you're sadly misinformed. It took several sessions to get back to where I was with the stickburner. But, at least I was more sociable to everyone around rather than snapping their heads off because I was so tired.
Like I have always said, it's the cook, not the cooker that makes for a successful smoke.

roxy · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Right on Bob..

Was wondering when you'd get here. Wink

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BBQMAN · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Wow is right Roxy, I just couldn't wait to get home for some more entertainment! Shocked

Now see there bluesman, you did go over the line on the pitmaster thing.

This thread actually had the potential to be informative, but just went clear off the tracks.

Now I'm not a big fan of pellet cookers, but I don't put folks down that use them. Some of the guys here that do have done quite well with them (be it personal or proffesional use), and I respect that.

You should as well! Wink

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roxy · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Doc1680 · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

I could use many analogies for this but I will equate this to driving a car. It used to be everybody could drive a stick cause that's all there was. Then as automatics popped up on the scene the oldschool guys would scoff at anybody that drove one. Now, and I don't have the figures, there are probably more people driving automatics than sticks. I remember talking to my niece when she first was learning to drive. "You should learn to drive a stick", I said. She looked at me as if I told her she should head to the livery and mount up. "Why would I want to do that. This is easier."

Now before I get smashed, all I'm saying is that with technology making all things easier to do some people are going to find that they would rather not bother with the old way. There will be others that will stick with tradition. And still others that appreciate and learn both.

I don't have a problem either way. Although I have to say I'm a fan of learning about what got you to this point.
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roxy · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Doc:

There was a day when cars had a big old crank out front to get them started and coal oil lamps for head lights, flat head engines...

I got to say I sure do enjoy reading this thread.
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skybob · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Well, Roxy, I was in on the first one that got dumped. Figgered that someone was trying to tell us something with the dumping. Probably much ado about nothing.
Oh well, finally got back to the computer and had my say.
Basically, give me any pit and I'll be able to use it to turn out decent Q. It'd just take a couple times to turn out really good Q.
It's the cook, not the cooker. It's just that I like easier stuff now with all the other crap in my life at the moment. With all the OT I"m putting in now, not to mention having to get up at 6am every day to take my wife to work and then pick her up at 10:30 to take her to PT for her arm & shoulder. If I used anything else that I had to attend to all the time like a stickburner, I just wouldn't have the time or energy to BBQ anymore.

skybob · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Were these done on a Traeger or a stickburner??

I dare anyone to say they weren't really good ribs. Quite a bit better than the ones I'd done on my stickburner.

CrazyChef · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Doc1680 · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

Tom-Fl · Joined: 12 Aug 2007 Posts: 2

As mentioned,since most pelletmunchers progressed through kettles,WSM s,stickburners,and some ancient eggs[ as well as in ground pits and smokehouses]-I figure it is about time that bluesman offer to swap cookers with some of them and show us how the" set it and walk away pellet cooker "is that easy and takes no pitmaster skills.

Tom

allsmokenofire · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

allsmokenofire · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

CrazyChef · Posted: Aug 14 2007 Post subject:

PLEASE folks, may I quote Jeff Hughes ONCE AGAIN: