Watch A Pellet How-To Demo
by BBQ Judge Candy Weaver at You Tube

NO SOAKING REQUIRED! Don't even think about it!

Why Pellets?
 Whatever the heat source of your cooker, whether gas, charcoal or wood, by the time the cooker is hot enough to cook any flavor enhancing qualities of the fuel (if any) are burned away by the heat. That's why food tastes virtually the same when cooked without flavor enhancers. You are basting your food in the smoke created from its own drippings, not in wood smoke!

Smoke flavor enhancers are added after the grill is ready to cook on and before the food is placed on the cooking grate. As the flavor enhancer is consumed in the fire, it releases smoke which flavors your food.

Why Pellets Are A Better Smoke Flavor Enhancer
Pellets are a unique form of natural wood. When pellets are made, all of the air within the cellular structure of the wood is evacuated, thus concentrating the wood into a very dense form, much denser than the natural tree. As compared to other wood flavor enhancers, pellets will yield a more intense smoke more quickly which seals the food, locking in natural moisture and adding smoke flavor exactly when it's needed.

Only 1/3 of a cup of pellets is needed for most cooking events. As compared to other forms of smoking wood, you'll need 5-10 times the weight of wood to achieve the same results as pellets. The cost per use is much less for pellets than any other form of wood.

Since pellets have been processed from sawdust by pressure which generates heat, any contaminants present in the wood are eliminated. This process produces a smoking wood product of consistent quality. Pellets are easy to use since you do not soak in water prior to use. It's easy to blend wood flavors with pellets and easily repeat successful cooking results.

BBQr's Delight pellets are made of 100% of the flavor of the wood that is indicated on the package. Jack Daniel's® Smoking Pellets are made from the used mellowing charcoal from the distillery, pulverized and mixed with sawdust then pelletized.

How to Use Pellets
Pellets are made of compressed sawdust. It's wood and wood burns when heated. If you starve wood of oxygen when you heat it, it smokes rather than burning to ash.

A pouch made of heavy duty aluminum with just one tiny hole in one side works great to provide smoke in most outdoor cookers. To make a foil pouch, cut a piece of heavy duty aluminum foil 6" by 12" and fold in half making a 6"x6" square. Fold the side edges at least twice, pressing each fold firmly along the entire side. Put 1/3 of a cup of pellets in the pouch and fold the top to seal. Poke a hole in one side of the pouch with a toothpick. Place the pouch on top of your charcoal briquettes or above the gas flame. When the smoke starts coming out of the hole in the pouch, put your food on the cooking grate and close the cover of your cooker. Smoke should last up to 30 minutes depending on the temperature of your cooker.

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How to Use Smoke Stix
A compressed 100% flavor wood giant pellet for providing smoke flavor for large volume cookers, even stick burners! Hickory, Pecan, Apple and Cherry. Just break off a piece and toss it in your lit charcoal right before you start cooking. A 1 inch piece of smoke stix will smolder approximately 3 hours in a smoker at 250 degrees. If you use a gas grill, the smoke stix piece must be contained in a smoke box. Weighs 2 pounds, one smoke stix is enough smoke for 5 or 6 cooks. We split off a 1" portion and place in a pan or the pellet pot and set of of the source of heat.

To Smoke Chiles: 
You want your temperature as low as you can go - 100 - 150 degres is best. We have found that using an electric hot plate (coil type) is perfect for maintaining these temps in all of our smokers and to deliver just the right smoke to produce a very fine "chipotle". We recommend using a cast iron pellet or chip box to keep from burning the pellets or Smoke Stix too quickly for hours of smoke. We like to put 4 - 6 hours of clean smoke on our chiles and finish off by drying in a dehydrator. Consider freezing chiles first, this will help to break down the cell walls to better absorb the smoke and dry more quickly. YOU WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED!

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