Pellet Smoked Pastrami

[Rick]

quote Jim” post=5403:

Thanks for encouragement Rick. We almost followed your cook cycle if it weren’t for the darn flame out at around 155 and the temp dropped down to 135 or so before we caught it. So we just foiled it and reset the grill at that point. Still ended up with a decent crust.
A good lesson for us on the use of pellet grills.

YW

I have had many types of pellet smoker/grills. Most of the time a flame out in the fire pot is due from ash build up that snuffs the flame. Pellets that are not of good quality can cause this. My MAK II Star hated Traeger pellets as my Traeger hated BBQ’rs delight brand pellets. My GMG seems to like most pellets which is good.

If you still get to use the Traeger clean the fir pot of the ash, I use a small shop vac.