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[–] 2 pts

I hate em. They smoke too hot, only use pellets, and you can't use any real wood in them. I use a good old smoker with a wood firebox on the side. I can smoke all the way down to 140 degrees in summer, and in winter, smoke cheese without getting it over 40 degrees. A friend has pellet smokers, and asked me to smoke some fish on them. I couldn't keep the temp below 245 at the lowest without constantly opening the lid. Ruined some good fish that day. Give me an old fashioned one any day.

Besides, when's the last time you went out to the woods and found pellets?

[–] 4 pts

They usually come from deer, rabbits, or owls. I wouldn't smoke meat with natural pellets.

[–] 1 pt

What's the backstory here?

[–] 2 pts

There's no back story, ya drama queen.

[–] 1 pt

I haven't gotten into smoking meat so what is wrong with pellets? (what are pellets?)

[–] 2 pts

They're manufactured bits of wood and glue used in specific smokers for cooking meat. They're all the rage with lazy people who want to claim they can barbeque. Kind of like charcoal briquettes, but for the low and slow cook.

[–] 1 pt

My poor traeger. Apartments sometimes ban regular smokers and charcoal grills. I like mine honestly. But I do eventually want a real one.

[–] 1 pt

Pellets are for hamsters.

[–] 0 pt

Liquid smoke and be done with it already. Better living through chemistry. Ten hours for a brisket? My shit's done in ten minutes in the microwave and tastes just as good.

[–] 1 pt

Dude, that's gross. Liquid smoke tastes nothing like the real thing.

[–] 0 pt

I don't have a brisket right now. Could I also cook chuck roast in the microwave?

[–] 1 pt

Absolutely! If you insist on "grill marks," and some bits of charred flesh then you can make some loops of mechanic's wire around the roast before microwaving. You have to add some time to account for the field strength loss from the induction loops. Maybe 13-15 minutes?