Cooking Pellets

Cooking pellets and wood pellet grills are growing in popularity due to their flexibility, wide range of features, precise temperature control and most importantly superior tasting food. Cooking pellets are produced from various hardwood residues, in various flavour combinations. The wide selection of available cooking pellet flavour mean specific types of cooking pellets work best with certain foods over others. For example you may use one type of cooking pellet to prepare chicken, and then use another variety to smoke fish or even bake cookies.

Wood Pellet Manufacturers

Manufactures who produce cooking pellets have to meet stricter quality standards for pellet production conditions, as it is a food quality standard product. However cooking pellets are sold at a premium rate, even compared to hardwood heating pellets. Therefore there are advantages to producing cooking pellets.

Hardwood Pellets

Various types of hardwood pellets are produced for cooking pellets, here is an example of the varieties:

Cherry, Pecan, Apple, Hickory etc

Even grape vines can be used to produce a cooking pellet, and one of the most expensive cooking pellets are vine pellets. Also the pellets can be infused with other flavours, for example onion and garlic. Cooking pellets is currently quite a small market, however in the future they will become much more popular as it is a clean 'green' way to cook food, and achieves a much better flavour than cooking on gas or charcoal.

Wood Pellet Grill

You can use cooking pellets in a traditional BBQ by simply replacing your charcoal with cooking pellets. However to make the process more controlled, and achieve a better flavour, there is a growing selection of wood pellet grills available. Traeger, Louisiana Grills and Green Mountain Grills are just a few of the examples.

Wood pellet grills are complete with a pellet hopper, auger feed system, burn pot and hot rod lighter. In fact they contain very similar components to pellet stoves and boilers. Wood pellet grills are thermostatically controlled. By setting the temperature on the thermostat to the desired level, the auger will feed pellets into the burn pot to keep the temperature to the desired level.

Pellets Production Guide

At PelHeat we produce small pellets machines, which could also be used to produce cooking pellets. However pellets production can be a tricky process to produce pellets with a good mechanical durability and little fines. These features are essential for reduced maintenance and burning efficiency. We have therefore developed the Wood Pellet Production Guide.

PelHeat Wood Pellet Production Guide

At PelHeat we have many years of experience in pellet production, and we provide a pellet production consultation service. The PelHeat guide download will show you how to make wood and other fuel pellets.

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The Wood Pellet Production Guide © PelHeat Ltd - Cooking Pellets

The PelHeat Wood Pellet Production Guide provides an introduction to how biomass pellets and wood pellets are produced. The guide covers how a pellet mill,

pellet press and pellet machine operate to manufacture wood fuel pellets. Several factors influence the quality of pellet fuel and cooking pellets