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Can i have your old one?

Idiot.

You should have gotten the Pellet Pro 680 - $699 right now. Digital push button controller with predictive logic.

Had you been following, I wore my Camp Chef out in 3 years and 1500-2000 lbs of pellets. The grill is fine, the controller is ****. The detents are all gone from the dial. Had a few back burns through the auger tube in the last year because of the dial skipping off the intended setting.

Anyway, whatever.

At least get good fuel. https://bbqpelletsonline.com/
Bulk pricing is outstanding. What they say is in the blend is in the blend. Nor like Traeger, where the "___some_fruit_wood__" is really only 30% fruitwood and 70% alder.

Damn you Gerbil...

Always a day late and a dollar short.

I only paid $555 for it. Shipping and tax made it a shade over $700.

Idiot.

Smoke Daddy, the makers of Pellet Pro, ship to the nearest freight terminal depot for free and you can pick it up there. Typically the depots don't charge to forklift it into your truck. If you want home delivery, it is $80.

This is what you get for not asking Ram. I would have seen it and given you more current advice than when we talked about this a year ago. Maybe you won't run your grill as hard as I have and you won't run into the issues.

Enjoy your shiny turdbbq.

Shaun,me thinks T-gerbs said you **** ed up............multiple times.

You tell him Macs! Don't take that from someone in NoCal.

Nope. I'll donate it to Gerbil since his is broke.

well played, sir!

I know about youse two...he's a great brutha.

I thought that was Brine...

now I feel dirty....does anyone else feel dirty?

I'm blushing...

10 butts??? dammm that's a lotta pulled pork ... 60-80 lbs of meat...I've got capacity for 6 butts in my smoker, and did it once for a work - event...fed about 100 peeps...

The space is deceiving, practically it's more like 4-5 shoulders for that size (about 30 lbs raw weight). Best results will be 3 in a row down the center lengthwise. Ideally, you want to keep the meat over the grease tray, not only for the grease, but to prevent burning as most of your heat is coming up from a strip shaped area at both the front and back of the grate. Meat that is hanging over that area will be getting hit with 450F combustion gasses. Another thing to keep in mind is that this is a convection oven, it cooks by circulating hot air (or combustion gasses in this case). If you pack the stuff in too tightly, it won't be able to heat them evenly. Lastly, the single fire pot can't make enough heat for more than probably about 40-45 lbs at most. I wouldn't pack that much in there though.

There are some really neat tricks you can do with the large grate though, after you've used it a few times and gotten used to it, I'll fill you in.

Cool. Looking forward to hear the results

So for the larger butts, you'll have to figure out where the hot spots are on your grill. On mine, it's in the center. Yours might have different areas due to air flow between the size and the differences in exhaust venting (center stack, offset stack, louvers, etc). You can do this with an infrared "laser" thermometer or just watching what areas create more bark. If you have access to a full spectrum IR radio-graphic camera, then it makes it super easy, but I know that this isn't something that most people will have access to.

If you are foil wrapping for the finish, then it doesn't matter that much. The high temp braising takes care of most of it.

What temp setting are you cooking them at?

Well... that didn't work out so well. Good thing I monitored it. Ran out of fuel at about the 12 hour mark (20 lbs of pellets), so I guess 32 lbs is either too much or needs to be done at a higher temp (and I need more fuel on hand).

Shoulders were 168-172, so I foiled them and finished in the oven.

I never run out of propane.

$160 for a 40 lbs bag?

LumberJack is the brand I use too. Great stuff. Love the maple hickory cherry (MHC) competition blend. On the recommendation of the owner, Seth, my next order I'm going to also get the pecan oak blend. That pricing sounds about right for a 1 ton or 2200 lb order. It's $15 +/- per bag when I place a ton or 2200lb order with commercial delivery only (delivery location has a forklift)