Using 50/50 Wood Chips and Pellets in LSG Pellet Smoker
Does anyone have experience mixing wood chips with pellets while cooking on their LSG PP? If so, what brand and flavor of wood of chips and pellets did you use? What protein did you cook on your LSG? Were you happy with your results? If you use only pellets, what brand do you think works best with your LSG PP? I have seen videos by a couple of Youtubers that have mixed the chips that LSG offers with X brand of pellets, but I want to know if anyone here has strayed from the small chips offered on the LSG website.
I am placing my order for a LSG PP in the next few days and want to see if anyone has experience I can piggyback off of once I receive delivery. I hope to be doing my own experiments by Christmas or the New Year.
I have a pellet smoker but don't understand why you would want to mix. I would think it would drive the controller crazy. You could use a smoke tube for additional smoke. I'll keep watching this post to see what I'm missing.
LSG, Pits and Spits and I assume other pellet smoker manufactures are figuring out ways to make pellet smokers produce meat that tastes closer to meat cooked on and offset. The way LSG is doing this is with their "open center" auger that can handle wood chips and pellets or just pellets. Check out a couple of videos:
Chris apparently, as he is want to do, researched and experimented with mixing chips and learned that size/shape of the chips is critical to success (meaning not jamming up the auger). Not sure there are many who would want to risk damaging the feed system using chips of unknown possible outcome. You want to be the guinea pig?
I might? That's why I was asking if someone has done it before or had experiance. I will have to wait the half of a "gustation period" before my 42 is even delivered and see what Chris' hickory chips look like before I can even see if I want to try other flavors.
As a LSG PP owner I wouldn't mess around with chips, risk versus benefit isn't worth jamming up the works of an expensive and already well performing cooker. Pellet poopers are not and likely will never fully match an offset. Give that thing a bunch of cooks as it's designed and judge the results, you'll likely not be disappointed. If you are disappointed, Chris has a number of other options to satisfy that old smokey craving! That's why I also have one of his offsets!
Oh, I agree. I am sure I will be happy with the LSG pellet but I am one to see what others are doing to maximize results. I can see an offset in my future, especially in retirement when I have time to devote to learning fire management and when sleep is not such a premium. Weekends are way too short to miss a night's sleep
I've had my 20x36 for over two years and seen all the posts about using wood chips. My opinion (at least right now) is that this is already an above normal smoking machine and I am not sure it needs to try to be improved. I had a Rec Tec for 8 years before this one and the RT can't come close to the smoking ability of the LSG. I also have a LSG offset and the smoke profile from the pellet grill is very close to the offset.
IMO, Chris is making a lot of money with this idea but I am not so sure it is even necessary.
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