How full do you fill up the hopper when grilling verses smoking? My only concern is how many pellets I'll use up when just grilling chicken and stuff like that along with the smoking that I will be doing.
Just fill the hopper with pellets regardless of whether you grill or smoke. Generally, pellet grills will use ~1 pound of pellets per hour at 225F. Higher temps will burn pellets at a faster rate
Cooking at higher temps on the pellet grill usually creates less smoke as the fire burns cleaner and the food being on the grill for less time will help keep the smoke flavor down
Super helpful information - thanks!
Glad it could help! Pellet grills are great once you get to know their capabilities
How full do you fill up the hopper when grilling verses smoking?
My only concern is how many pellets I'll use up when just grilling chicken and stuff like that along with the smoking that I will be doing.
Just fill the hopper with pellets regardless of whether you grill or smoke. Generally, pellet grills will use ~1 pound of pellets per hour at 225F. Higher temps will burn pellets at a faster rate
If it's using pellets with smoke flavor as the fuel.. Hour can you avoid the smoker taste??
Cooking at higher temps on the pellet grill usually creates less smoke as the fire burns cleaner and the food being on the grill for less time will help keep the smoke flavor down