I've cooked on my Pro 1100 3 or 4 times now and my wife complains that the food just doesn't taste like it just came off a grill. She says it's more like it came out of an oven. My other grills/smokers are a Weber Spirit gas grill, Weber Smokey Mountain and a Vision Kamado grill. I can't really disagree with her either. I find it also takes a lot longer to cook things.
This last cook I cranked up the heat more than I did the time before. It's not just missing a smokey flavor the picnic style ribs didn't caramelize like on other grills after putting BBQ sauce. I am using the Walmart Competition pellets by Pit Boss which is Maple, Hickory and Apple. I can smell the wood when I'm cooking but I haven't been able to put my finger on why it taste like it came out the oven. We are not looking for it to taste like smoke, just would like things to taste like it had just been BBQ'd with good flavor. Too much smoke makes things bitter.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks
This last cook I cranked up the heat more than I did the time before. It's not just missing a smokey flavor the picnic style ribs didn't caramelize like on other grills after putting BBQ sauce. I am using the Walmart Competition pellets by Pit Boss which is Maple, Hickory and Apple. I can smell the wood when I'm cooking but I haven't been able to put my finger on why it taste like it came out the oven. We are not looking for it to taste like smoke, just would like things to taste like it had just been BBQ'd with good flavor. Too much smoke makes things bitter.
Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks