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Go Beyond Grilling with Pellet Grills!

If you are someone looking to take your grilling game up a notch, have you checked out pellet grills??

Pellet grills use food-grade wood pellets for fuel. They are designed with a system of fans in place to distribute the heat.

You can think of a pellet grill as combining a grill with a smoker with a convection oven in terms of its components and how it cooks your food.

While a pellet grill can actually, in fact, just grill vegetables, it’s so much more than that. For people wanting to step up their outdoor cooking experience, expand their culinary creativity, or zoom in on their barbeque skills, pellet grills might be the perfect solution.

There are a ton of reasons people are switching to pellet grills or upgrading their charcoal smoker to a pellet grill:

Have a Professional Feeling Barbecue Experience from Your Backyard

Investing in a home pellet grill opens the door for so many more cooking options.

Want slow-smoked, fall-off-the-bone ribs this weekend? Done! Want to try your hand at that brisket recipe you’ve been drooling over? Done! Want pulled pork that is not dry? Done!

Pellet grills are designed to keep a steady temperature, and they are perfect for low-temperature recipes that need hours upon hours to be just right. They have the ability to provide extremely full flavors as well and can be used throughout the year.

You no longer have to wait or plan a visit to a restaurant to have a fantastic barbecue, you can become the new BBQ master of your neighborhood in no time.

The other great thing about pellet grills though is that they are also fantastic for baking, grilling, roasting, and braising. Want to try a brined and smoked turkey for the holidays? You now have the tool with a pellet grill. Wood-fired pizza in your backyard can now become a reality.

To really blow your mind, you can bake bread in that pellet grills of yours too.

With a pellet grill, you really have a huge variety of options and you can try all of those recipes that you were just never able to do from home because you did not have the right equipment.

Electricity (Meaning No More Charcoal)

Pellet grills use electricity, so you can say goodbye to charcoal and lighter fluid. Being electrical means using a pellet grill is easy, set up is quick, and there are controls that set the temperature.

There is even a nifty little component called a hopper that you fill up with the food-grade wood pellets, and the electricity controls an auger that feeds the burn pot automatically. Yes, you read that correctly. The pellet grill is designed to feed itself so you do not have to babysit a grill for hours on end. You prepare the food, choose the wood pellets, select the desired temperature, set the smoke level, and let the wonders of electricity work for you.

Electricity is an everyday expense for a home and is a modern convenience. Plugging in a grill is easy and means you do not need to worry about added costs from propane or charcoal.

There are even pellet grills that are connected via Wi-Fi to your smartphone device. We’ve gotten so fancy. Your grill can now send you notifications to your phone and you can change temperature and adjust things accordingly.

So Many Flavor Options

Since pellet grills use food-grade wood pellets there is a wide range of amazing flavor options to experiment with:

  • Hickory
  • Apple
  • Cherry
  • Mesquite
  • Maple
  • Oak
  • Pecan
  • Walnut
  • Alder

There are entire recipe books out there that just cover one type of wood pellet and you just saw at least nine options. Wood pellets usually come in twenty-pound bags and you do not need to worry about soaking or anything like that when compared to wood chips. Just simply add them to the hopper and set the specifics.

You can switch out wood pellets easily or even combine different types for the best flavor combinations.

For example, many people like applewood pellets with lighter meat like chicken or pork, but say hickory is better for beef. And how good does a pecan smoked wheat bread sound? Or a mesquite-smoked whole trout? Or an applewood smoked apple pie?

The sky’s the limit and people are going to be so impressed with the new meals you will be knocking out with your pellet grill.

As a bonus, wood pellets are natural. They are compacted through pressure and not through harsh glues, so you are only getting the flavor of the wood, the meat or vegetables, and any spices you choose.
Odds are if a store sells grills they are selling wood pellets or you can buy them through specific barbeque specialty stores both in-person and online.

Written by Simpson

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