Wood Pellet Hickory Blend 1.85kg

Hickory blend wood pellets, 1.85kg. USA and Australian made.

Hickory is the strong end of the range and the flavour most people picture when they think of barbecue. It is bold, a little bacon like, and it stands up to beef and to pork ribs in a way the milder woods do not.

It is also the easiest wood to overdo. Hickory will keep giving long after the meat has taken all it wants, and a brisket left too long in heavy hickory smoke turns bitter rather than smoky. Start shorter than you think and lengthen it next time.

Hickory or cherry

• Hickory strong and bacon like. Beef, pork ribs, and traditional American barbecue. Easy to overdo.
• Cherry mild and slightly sweet. Pork, poultry, fish, and anything you want colour on. Hard to overdo.

Plenty of people run the two together, using hickory for the backbone and cherry for colour and to take the edge off.

Why pellets

Pellets are compressed, so they burn at a consistent rate and give you steady smoke over a long cook without the flare and fade you get from chunks. That consistency is the whole point on a cook that runs for hours.

Storage

Keep them sealed and dry. Pellets are compressed sawdust and they will swell and crumble if they take on moisture, and crumbled pellets jam augers and burn unevenly. A sealed bucket in a dry spot is the way to store them, not the bag left open in a shed.

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