Anyone with any experience using hardwood stove pellets in their pellet grill? With the exception of mesquite, I don't notice much if any difference in flavor from the "blended". grill pellets.
Pellet grill fuel ?
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Was brought up here before. Seems there is no way to ensure the smoke will be safe for human consumption, but there's also no way to prove a smoking pellets smoke is either.
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Heating pellets in pellet grill
I donated my Weber grill to my son when he moved to his house and started looking at pellet grills. I have a pellet boiler and stove with bulk pellet delivery so a nice available source. I believe they are softwood from MESYS. I was wondering if anyone has used heating pellets in a pellet grill...
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Food grade pellets 🤣Was brought up here before. Seems there is no way to ensure the smoke will be safe for human consumption, but there's also no way to prove a smoking pellets smoke is either.
Heating pellets in pellet grill
I donated my Weber grill to my son when he moved to his house and started looking at pellet grills. I have a pellet boiler and stove with bulk pellet delivery so a nice available source. I believe they are softwood from MESYS. I was wondering if anyone has used heating pellets in a pellet grill...
I have burned pellets that gave off hints of green, light blue and some weird yellow. I thought it was chemicals left over in the wood from whatever manufacturing process the wood came from. No way I would want that near my food.
DneprDave
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I buy food grade pellets from a restaurant supply, I would never use heating pellets in my pellet grill.
I have been using Hamers Hot Ones in my pellet cookers for 9 years with no issues. I have used some LJ and 2 other brands but I can't tell a difference.
I have never seen a food grade forest so no idea where food grade pellets would come from. The stick burner people never seem to be concerned about food grade splits or chunks.
I have never seen a food grade forest so no idea where food grade pellets would come from. The stick burner people never seem to be concerned about food grade splits or chunks.
tlc1976
Minister of Fire
I wouldn’t be concerned about the wood itself. It’s the binding agents they might use. Or other things, say for example they grind up pallets that might have had chemicals spilled on them. Also when you close the grille it’s not like an open fire.
If I paid the money for a pellet grille, the least I would do is burn an appropriate food pellet in it. It’s easy enough to do. IMO anyway.
Heated my house for many years with these. Never tried in my grill though. Says they are fine.
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Easy way to show that heating pellets are not safe to cook with ... Look and the carbon/minerals and ash that is left over in your burn pot on your heating stove.. That is all going into your food if your using them to cook with
Well i have yet to scrape any minerals, or carbon out of my pellet grill where that is a given every week on my heating pellet stove.. All pellets create ash. Plus you do not know what they are using for binders in heating grade pellets
The reason smoked and grilled food tastes so good is the Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons released from the wood when burning are absorbed by the food being grilled. It may make it taste great but its probably cancerous long term http://www.idph.state.il.us/cancer/factsheets/polycyclicaromatichydrocarbons.htm#:~:text=Long-term exposure to low,, bladder, and gastrointestinal cancers. and the far bigger concern for health effects than from potential contaminants in the feedstock or process.
I see a lot of echo chamber type discussions on the web when I actually search for third party certification for "food grade pellets' and have not found one. There may be a Canadian standard but didnt find it. My guess in the US is that anyone can slap "food grade" on a grade A heating pellet bag and its magically becomes food grade as there is no spec for food grade. Feel free to pay more for that extra ink that says food grade. Its a fairly profitable business, slap food grade on a bag and charge a premium price for a standard grade A pellet. Not a lot of down side, since there doesnt appear to be a standard to fall back on.
I see a lot of echo chamber type discussions on the web when I actually search for third party certification for "food grade pellets' and have not found one. There may be a Canadian standard but didnt find it. My guess in the US is that anyone can slap "food grade" on a grade A heating pellet bag and its magically becomes food grade as there is no spec for food grade. Feel free to pay more for that extra ink that says food grade. Its a fairly profitable business, slap food grade on a bag and charge a premium price for a standard grade A pellet. Not a lot of down side, since there doesnt appear to be a standard to fall back on.
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I regularly scrape the carbon and minerals from the burn pot of my pellet grill when using 100% "food grade" pellets. That dog don't hunt.
All wood produces some carbon and all wood has minerals
Whether it be food grade or the cheapest heating pellets
So as HighBeam says That dog don't hunt
Whether it be food grade or the cheapest heating pellets
So as HighBeam says That dog don't hunt
Great PR but without an agreed upon third party standard for food grade, its just advertising.
So regular wood pellets from like I use and most others need biding agents but pellets made on the same machines for cooking do not?
The fire is open in a grill pretty much as it is in stove. You just can't see it.
The fire is open in a grill pretty much as it is in stove. You just can't see it.
Have you ever run or worked on pellet stoves????? Watching YouTube videos is really not a replacement for actual experience
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