How does a pellet grill work?

The functional principle of a pellet grill is simplified and quickly explained. First of all, power is required to operate a pellet barbecue. This supplies the pellet grill or the control unit contained therein. In a container, the grill pellets –  specially prepared for grilling pure wood pellets – which are processed from pressed sawdust to small sticks filled. From there, the wood pellets pass through a conveyor screw into the combustion chamber or burner pot of the smoker and are burned. This creates heat and smoke.

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Both are distributed in the cooking chamber and cook your food indirectly, Indirectly because between the burner and the grill usually still a heat shield and a fat drain pan, so that no direct heat gets to the food. So it’s all about convection heat and radiant heat, just like in a convection oven.

Incidentally, the smoke then passes through the chimney on the pellet grill. In the beginning, so when you turn on the pellet grill you can see mostly clear smoke after the first combustion of the grill pellets. In the company but then hardly more smoke is seen. The pellet grill burns the pellets very evenly and constantly, so that little visible smoke is produced and the food gets a subtle smoke flavor. For this, you get so popular at the BBQ smoke ring (red ring just below the surface of the meat) in perfection. This is always an eye-catcher. A dedicated control unit can be used to set different temperatures from 75 degrees to (depending on the model) 400 degrees.

Basically, you grill your food in a pellet smoker as mentioned, indirectly. But if you have a Best pellet smoker that creates 400 degrees above, You can also grill directly after a small renovation. As for the grill pellets, it should be noted that these are different from the wood pellets used for pellet heating. The pellets for the heaters will be out Made wooden boxes of any kind. The grill pellets are unmixed pellets that contain no pollutants, wastes, etc. and are therefore suitable for grilling.

The grill pellets are now available in numerous types for different flavors. In addition to fruit trees such as cherry, apple, peach and more intense smoked aromas such as mesquite, hickory, oak, etc. should be mentioned. With regard to the combustion of the pellets is to say that they burn almost without residue. There is a minimum of ashes left, which you have to siphon off from time to time, that is almost not worth mentioning.

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