New to Pellet Smoker

[dirtysmoker]

Good afternoon all! I have smoked several times using charcoal and wood chunks, but bought a Pitboss 850 this weekend, and trying a turkey breast and set of ribs. Wish me lucks.
Only problem that I am seeing right now is that I do not see any smoke, and cooking at 225, so pellets are definitely being fed through the augur.
Tried dropping the temp to 180 and maybe saw a little.
Did the burn off for 45 minutes on Saturday.
Pellets are Pit Boss brand.

I know its cooking because I can hear fan, see the flame and it lets me adjust the temp. Just do not see any smoke.
Hopefully, I figure it out.

 

[sparkyv]

Howdy from Deepinnaheartta, Texas.

Pellet grills aren't known for producing good smoke, but usually the lowest SP is when it will produce some smoke. I use a smoke tube to get even more smoke. Regardless, it won't have that fine smoke we get from charcoal and wood chunks.

 

[hollrusl]

You’re not going to see a ton of smoke like you would on a stick burner or other types of smokers. The pellets are a much cleaner burn and therefore put off a thinner smoke.

If you want to see smoke and add more smoke to the flavor profile I’d suggest getting a couple of smoke tubes and filling them with wood chips of your choice and letting them burn throughout the cook.

 

[Upinmygrill]

Welcome! We’ve got an 850 also. Been using for about 6 months with Pitt Boss pellets and not really much smoke once it gets going.

I haven’t used them yet but look up pellet smoker tubes.

 

[Sparky]

Welcome to the group from Mesquite, Texas

 

[Cowboy1955]

Welcome from Texas to the group!!

 

[Smokeyholler]

Welcome from the holler

Different pellets will smoke differently. PB pellets are pretty thin on smoke. I really like Bear Mountain hickory pellets, they produce more smoke as do Smokin Pecan pellets. You are starting a journey through the world of pellets that just happens to have tasty meat at the end of each test.

 

[bobissmokin]

Welcome!

 

[dirtysmoker]

Good afternoon, all. Thank you for all the replies. I was able to find out via your posts and other reddit delves that I would not see the typical billowing smoke like I do with my old charcoal smoking with wood chunks.

The ribs and turkey breast were decent, not as good as my previous cooks with the legacy methods of smoking, but hopefully I get better. I will look into smoke tubes in the event that I want to add a specific flavor profile in addition to the Pitboss competition pellets that I used yesterday.

Hope your smokes yesterday were good also.!

 

[Mike From R.I.]

Welcome from Rhode Island. Put a couple of smoke tubes from Amazon in the smoker.

 

[Jimsmokes]

Welcome from Rhode Island. Put a couple of smoke tubes from Amazon in the smoker.

Packed with pellets and wood chips of your choice of wood. For each cook.

 

[Jimsmokes]

Welcome from upstate SC.

 

[sparkyv]

Yes, this has been very disappointing to me. But I've gotten over it due to the the convenience of not having to babysit a fire all night and day long...plus I use a smoke tube.

I was able to find out via your posts and other reddit delves that I would not see the typical billowing smoke like I do with my old charcoal smoking with wood chunks.

 

[Cagrant3]

Good afternoon, all. Thank you for all the replies. I was able to find out via your posts and other reddit delves that I would not see the typical billowing smoke like I do with my old charcoal smoking with wood chunks.

The ribs and turkey breast were decent, not as good as my previous cooks with the legacy methods of smoking, but hopefully I get better. I will look into smoke tubes in the event that I want to add a specific flavor profile in addition to the Pitboss competition pellets that I used yesterday.

Hope your smokes yesterday were good also.!

Welcome DirtySmoker!! I haven’t seen anyone suggest going onto the settings on your control panel, select “P” setting, and turn it up. That pauses the pellet feed and produces more smoke. Happy Smokin’

 

[Upinmygrill]

If you have the PB850DX like we do I don’t think it has a P or pause setting. I’m looking in the instruction booklet that came with ours and it simply says if you want smoke use its lowest temperature setting. No P setting is shown in the booklet that I can see.

Anyone know something I don’t let us know.

This is about all I see on smoke setting.