smoking pork butt with pellet stove

[ironpony]

I was sitting here thinking about firing up the smoker and then it hit me . What if you built a grill at the end of the pellet stove exhaust? Would be like a traeger smoker, might as well put the pellet stove to other use while it was running. constant temp, smoke, think it would work???

 

[Bioburner]

Not remembering ideal smoking temps, is around 150 to 160 ideal.

 

[BigJohnfromCT]

Yeah, probably needs to be a little hotter. I run my smoker in the 225 - 250 range. Not sue about ur stove but my MVAE produces no visible smoke after it fully ignites.

 

[ZBrooks]

It is my understanding that pellets made to heat the house are not to be used to smoke meat.

 

[Bioburner]

Those made of old pallets etc. Some are manufactured from virgin wood. Was discussed some time ago. Check with manufacture. Probably no reason one couldn't mix in some wetted chips. Will be trimming the apple trees soon and got the bow setup for carp last Friday.

 

[tjnamtiw]

Not remembering ideal smoking temps, is around 150 to 160 ideal.

You need your pork butt at least 195 degrees to be able to pull it. I run my smoker at 250.

 

[BrotherBart]

Pork butt at 225 for 12 to 14 hours is to die for.

 

[tjnamtiw]

Pork butt at 225 for 12 to 14 hours is to die for.

coated with my 'famous' brown sugar spice mixture......

 

[BrotherBart]

It is my understanding that pellets made to heat the house are not to be used to smoke meat.

Take a whiff of the pellet exhaust and try to imagine what the meat would taste like. Yuck.

 

[tjnamtiw]

Take a whiff of the pellet exhaust and try to imagine what the meat would taste like. Yuck.

Amen. There is no value in using that exhaust except for the hospital that will submit your bills! I can't even imagine what they use to make the pellets. Wait until they come from China!

 

[Mark_ms]

If pellets are not fit for animal or human consumption I think that includes byproducts too

 

[ironpony]

so cooking over coals or a traeger pellet stove, you think it is safer exhaust? co2 is co2 no? I realize there could be other "things" depending on where the pellets come from. Maybe if I just buy some BBQ pellets and burn them for the day?

 

[ironpony]

Take a whiff of the pellet exhaust and try to imagine what the meat would taste like. Yuck.

so what would be different using a pellet smoker? just the pellets used?

 

[richg]

so what would be different using a pellet smoker? just the pellets used?

For the amount of time, money and energy involved in trying to construct such a device, my suggestion would be to buy a Weber Smokey Mountain. You will then have a smoker than can be used any time of year and not have to bother with firing up a pellet stove. The 14 inch WSM is too small, the 22 is too big and the 18 is just right.

I went overboard and bought a large Big Green Egg, and found it is as indispensable as a microwave. Ripping steaks at 1500, pizzas at 800, brisket at 225 for 18 hours, the Egg can do it all.

 

[BrotherBart]

so what would be different using a pellet smoker? just the pellets used?

Should be. No telling woods are actually in the heating pellets.

 

[ironpony]

For the amount of time, money and energy involved in trying to construct such a device, my suggestion would be to buy a Weber Smokey Mountain. You will then have a smoker than can be used any time of year and not have to bother with firing up a pellet stove. The 14 inch WSM is too small, the 22 is too big and the 18 is just right.

I went overboard and bought a large Big Green Egg, and found it is as indispensable as a microwave. Ripping steaks at 1500, pizzas at 800, brisket at 225 for 18 hours, the Egg can do it all.

this is my outdoor kitchen, complete with Wood Fired pizza oven, smoker and wood grill, that is not the issue here. I was just asking what everyone thought.

 

[pell it]

I use Barefoot pellets in my traeger grill. Has a nice maple/cherry blend.

 

[tjnamtiw]

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this is my outdoor kitchen, complete with Wood Fired pizza oven, smoker and wood grill, that is not the issue here. I was just asking what everyone thought.

Is that a Forno Bravo pizza oven? I'd give your left nut for one of them! Do you like it?

 

[ironpony]

Is that a Forno Bravo pizza oven? I'd give your left nut for one of them! Do you like it?

scratch built by me, I have a thread on here somewhere and also on the Forno Bravo site. I love it. search pizza oven and there are some of my threads around page 5

 

[Jigger]

I would not trust cooking with the exhaust from a pellet stove. You do not know what type of wood pellets are made of. There are a lot of pellet manufactures out there that make thier pellets from recycled wood products. That they get from trash picking lines. Thier woods can be from constuction sites,oak or pine pallets or pressure treat wood scrapes.Like others have said. If you want to smoke meat buy a smoker.

 

[hoverfly]

If you used human grade pellets, clean out the stove before smoking maybe it would work. But those pellets are not cheap and you would have cut down on the air to produce more smoke possibly clogging the stove full of ash. Nah, not worth it. I got me a square box that uses charcoal from Wally world.

 

[mikestod]

I went overboard and bought a large Big Green Egg, and found it is as indispensable as a microwave. Ripping steaks at 1500, pizzas at 800, brisket at 225 for 18 hours, the Egg can do it all.

Some lump charcoal and some hickory chips sound a whole lot tastier than hardwood blend pellet smoke. So I'll stick with my Akorn grill...which is the poor man's version of the Big Green Egg. Love Kamado style grill cooking now. I rarely use my propane grill anymore except for quick grilling in the dead of winter.

 

[ironpony]

O.K. guys it was a bad idea..... I will fire up the smoker. If something did happen to me, smoking with the pellet stove, I would miss you guys. Just not worth it.