Replacing Pellets With Wood Chips In My Pellet Grill On A Long Cook!
I mixed 50% wood chips in my LSG Pellet Smoker and ran it for over eight hours. In this video, not only did I cook up an amazing rack of beef short ribs, but I answered a lot of your questions regarding replacing pellets with wood chips.
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In this video, I am showing you how pellets can be mixed with wood chips (up to 50%) in the LSG Pellet Smoker. If you own another brand of pellet grill, try this at your own risk.
i started following you for your burger channel but recently got into smoking meats and found this one! your videos are great keep it up
Need a short free style auger to work
Instant auger jam with Yoder. Don’t try it 😂
yea , and thats a no in a pitboss Autson XL . wood chips got wedged in the auger . Good concept . but if it gets wedged in be prepared to get them out and sort them from the pellets
Great info and a great idea from Chris to incorporate wood chips with pellets. Beef ribs looked tremendous bro!!!! YUM! Cheers!!!
Those might be the best looking beef ribs I've ever seen. Greg is the goat 🐐.
Be interested how a 50 50 blend of wood chips and the charcoal pellets would taste.
Thanks for answering so many of the questions that were thrown at you in the last video. It is appreciated 👍
Great idea!
Sooo, what is the ultimate benefit from this? Better smoke flavor? Cheaper fuel? Can you mix cheap pellets with quality chips for good flavor? Longer burn time with the chip mix? More quality smoke?
The pellets were once wood chips also. Will they come out with a different style grill called a wood chip smoker?
And they're sold out of all their wood chips 😢
Great video, Greg!!!!
I think this has a lot of possibilities! – Thanks for the experimation Greg! – Cheers!
Going to try it on my 640
I did this 3 nights ago for a pork butt cook. I have the 42" LSG pellet grill as well. I used about 62% pellets (BBQer's Delight) and 38% wood chips (Western brand Hickory from Walmart) by weight. I did fill the hopper from bottom to top. Took about 2 hours and they jammed. I noticed in this video the wood chips you are using are about a third to half the size than the biggest pieces from the western brand.
I agree with your statement of not buying just any wood chip off the shelf. I thought the pellets/chips created a wedge in the hopper causing the flame out but discovered a longer wood chip jammed between the end of the auger where it dumps inside and the steel "Back Board" that keeps the pellets falling down into the firepot. There was literally a 2" diameter wedge of pellets/chips jammed there. I'll give it another try with Chris' wood chips when he gets them back in stock. Thank you for this followup video, I should have paid closer attention to the first one regarding chip size LOL.
I tried it with chips from LSG on my Yoder YS1500. Auger stuck after about 15 minutes.
Great video Greg! Might have to be the Guinea pig 😄
Great video – I’ve been a long time user of mixing chips in with pellets on a smoke tube but never thought of just running them through the hopper. I have a YS640 which also has a beefy auger and I may try running a lean blend using if I can get ahold of some LSG’s chips 🙂
After your first video I ordered a box of chips from LSG. Used a 50/50 mixture in my 7 year old Rec Tec 1250 over the weekend smoking some pork steaks. 6 hour cook (225 degrees) and they turned out fantastic! Pellet consumption seemed about normal.
How much are the wood chips and how big is the bag
Prayers for your boy
Every time you put your hand in the hopper without the "idiot guard" I cringed because I expected that the auger would pull your fingers through 14" of wood pellets and chips and grind them up like your meat grinder. The lightning speed of the auger wouldn't give you a chance to get your hand out in time. Where is the outrage for not having such a vital safety device installed? 😂😂 Great stuff Greg!! Thanks for staying at the leading edge of new and unique techniques. Prayers for your son!
Do you plan on upping the percentage of wood chips to see if you can get more wood flavor?