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www.youtube.com/@Amocoru this has been my question for a while and now you and www.youtube.com/@madbackyard at the 3:13 minute mark in the video above have partially answered my question! www.youtube.com/@madbackyard / www.youtube.com/@Amocoru what about when you are cooking at lower temperatures? Do you use the more expensive/better quality pellets in your hopper or do you always save them for your smoke tube?

Nice! Yeah I've seen some people also wad a up a ball of newspaper soaked in cooking oil at the bottom and light it from the bottom as well to get it going without a butane torch.

Glad it's helping! Thanks!

Right on!👍

Great tips, thanks!!

Yep. Go with a mix of mesquite pellets and mesquite wood chips.

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Yes I have noticed that too! I guess it goes back to a less clean burn, more interesting chemical reactions and therefore smoke flavor, but more resulting ash.

Thanks for the tip! I've seen people use those, I'll have to try it out sometime!

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Right on!

Love it as well!

Try their Plummond pellets. I started using those more.

Thanks so much!!!

Glad it helped! Thanks!

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Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!

Will definitely give them a try, thanks!!

Have fun!

Hey Daniel- You should actually have a pretty consistent amount of oxygen flowing through your Pit Boss as they have a fixed fan speed that's constantly blowing air through. Maybe try opening up your exhaust chimney more and moving the tube smoker out of that corner and a little more toward the center so its more in the airflow path . It could also be an issue of not lighting the pellets enough at the onset. You need to use a good torch and get a really good long burn going on them at the beginning. Another idea to try is to light BOTH ends for extra smoke at the beginning and less chance of it going out. I'm sorry you felt you had to drill a hole in your grill. I also wouldn't microwave the pellets as that could cause a fire or carbon monoxide build up in your house. Not worth it. Thanks for watching, hope one of those things works for you!

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I will mix them sometimes. I find that too many wood chips will just ignite and catch fire rather than smolder and smoke.

@@madbackyard I've been using wood chips only... works way better

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You can do this to some extent for extra bursts of smoke. But it won’t give you anything continuous. Adding pellets to the firepot beyond what the pellet grill wants to do automatically will also mess with your temperature. And if you really overdo it could cause some major issues with your fire. I have seen some people use the prime button to feed some extra pellets to the firepot before they need to open the lid so that that it won’t take as long to come back up to temp. I’ve never messed with doing this though to be honest.

Yes you can. I just try to position not too close to the thermometer and so that the smoke travels over the food on its way to the exhaust chimney.

You're welcome!

Many many thanks!

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Yes, you will get different smoke and different smoke flavors depending on the temp the wood burns. I also like to use the smoke tube for smoke flavor when smoking at higher temps where I’m not getting much smoke from the burn pot. Works great for poultry etc where you need a higher temp to crisp the skin and keep the meat from drying go out but still want smoke flavor. Thanks for watching!!

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Smoke tube better than real wood chunks?...no, it's going to be hard to beat real burning wood. But it will be better than nothing. I answered you in more detail on my latest video that addresses this.

I mix real wood chips with pellets in the smoke tube 50/50 and it works great@@madbackyard

Thank you! Cheers!

Yes, I have done this in some of our other videos. I use about 25% wood chips and 75% pellets otherwise I find they ignite and catch fire more than smoke and smolder.

Never in the hopper or else the auger will jam. But in a smoke tube, yes, not 50/50, maybe more like 80/20 pellets to wood chips. I find if I have too many woodchips the tube ignites rather than smolders.

What kind of smoker are you using?

@@madbackyard Pit Boss Pro 1150

Make sure to get it REALLY well lit before blowing it out and putting I down on the grates. Another trick is to light the opposite end as well so you have twice the smoke by burning from both ends at once. Also, and I should have mentioned this in the video, try opening your exhaust chimney wider. You may just need more airflow to keep the pellets well lit inside your pit boss. Thanks for watching!!!

Try opening your Chimney Cap up more and moving the smoke tube away from any edges of your grill. I find you really need a lot of air flow to keep them lit.

Hi Wayne, thanks for contributing this from your experience! I guess what I should have stated more clearly is that while yes, they can be cut to any length when manufactured, it would make sense to me that if a pellet is well compacted, better made, and therefore more dense it would be less likely to break into smaller pieces during shipping, handling, etc and therefore be the reason you find so many smaller than full length pieces in certain brands and more full length intact pellets in other "higher quality" brands. I also noticed that the supposedly higher quality pellets have more of a snap to them and take a little more effort to break apart than other brands that seem to crumble a little easier in your hand when forced. And obviously the sawdust I noted in the video as well. It would be great if the manufacturers we required to provide more specifications along these lines about their pellets so we as consumers could make a more scientific comparison between them without the need for self experimentation and guesswork. Thanks for watching!

@@madbackyard thank you for your reply.what matters most is the amount of natural sugars or the "glue" and moisture in the wood shavings. The same thing with animal feed. I've personally worked on these machines. Not for wood pellets though. I would be willing to bet the natural sugar would be higher say in plum wood than in oak. So that would be a better "glue" to hold everything together. I've used many different types and brands of pellets for my Pit Boss smoker and I haven't noticed any real difference. Sadly I haven't tried this brand you are pushing here. At the moment I'm well stocked on pellets so when my stock dwindles I'll have to give this brand a try. Thank you for bring it to my attention. Now for the smoke tube, I've already been doing the exact same thing you are saying in this video and it works quite well. I too keep my tube towards the back because of the temp sensor. As I was reading this for grammar errors it dawned on me about this plum wood verse Oak. Would it be better to compare plum to plum and oak to oak from different manufacturers?

Knotty wood is the only brand I've seen using plum wood so would be hard to compare to anything else. I also tried their almond wood and liked it too but it was definitely milder. Interesting what you say about the sugars. Maybe that's why so many manufacturers include maple wood in their blends because of the high sap content? I know some people say the amount of bark included makes a big difference too.

@@madbackyard for the animal feed we would add molasses as the "glue" as well as for the taste. Some of the old-timers would grab handfuls and eat them.

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Yes, it does. What I guess I was trying to say is that I notice the better quality pellets stay intact better in the bag rather than the lower quality ones that crumble easier during shipping etc. thanks for watching!

@@madbackyard I got that great video!

@@steveandrushko75 Thanks!

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Good question...I will sometimes mix wood chips in with the pellets. I've found because there is so much oxygen flow in the smoke tube, using the wood chips alone they tend to just ignite in flames rather than smoke. A smoke box works better for wood chips because there are fewer holes and less oxygen. Check out our other video on using a small smoke box and you can actually use charcoal and wood chunks and get better results than pellets alone IMO. Thanks for watching! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd-WZpZnnc6amXk.html

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It’s probably not getting enough oxygen. Try opening your exhaust cap as much as it will go.

@@madbackyard I will try that the next time I smoke something. My next project is a leg of lamb seasoned with rosemary and garlic

A couple tips I have found work for me: 1. Open the exhaust chimney up more so you get more airflow moving through. 2. Don't put the pellet tube RIGHT against the back wall of the smoker. Experiment with placement inside the smoker. 3. Make sure to use a good torch and REALLY get those pellets lit for 4-5 minutes before extinguishing. Try laying it on its side while the flame is STILL going for a few minutes before blowing it out. 4. Try lighting from BOTH ends. 5. Try another brand of pellets. Hope one of those works for you, thanks for watching!

You could absolutely use that combo if you already own a gas grill but there is definitely a flavor difference from using the smoke tube with a pellet smoker. Work with what you got though 😊