Traeger Pellet Blend?

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svinyard

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OK after seeing the "proprietary blend" stuff and how bad these pellets were...containing no flavor wood and only flavor oil, I went to their facebook page and caused a ruckus. A person finally told me they put some Soy oil in there for lubrication and then that their blend on the west coast was 70%alder and 30% flavor wood. One the east coast it was 70% oak instead of alder.

Now that sounds like a great blend compared to a lot of others out there that seem to top out at 25% or 20%. Am I wrong here or missing something?
 
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Big Poppa

Big Poppa

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Nobodies touching this so Ill start...Soy oil? doesnt sound right....They have a patent for using oil instead of the wook....they also label the stuff without the breakdown of wood....Im not saying that I know but I believe that it is hogwash.
 
TentHunter

TentHunter

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Personally I agree with BP, what you were told is hogwash. I contacted Traeger directly and got quite a different answer than you.

Fact: Traeger will void your warranty for using another brand pellets, yet, like BP said, they DO NOT state nor guarantee what's in their own pellets. The bag simply says "All Natural Wood Pellets" then they list the pellet flavor in big letters.

Don't take our word for it. Here's a link directly to Traeger's patent, updated on July 14, 2011 with the U.S. Patent & Trademark office: Traeger's Patent - Flavored Wood Pellet - USPTO

In the Detailed Description section of you will find the following (the red highlights are my own for emphasis):
"Alder and oak wood are the preferred base wood materials to form the small wood particles 21, however, other wood types may also be used if readily available."

"Nearly any species of grape plant may be used to provide the base grape vine. However, grape plants whose grapes have desirable flavor qualities typically used in wine making such as, for example, cabernet sauvignon, merlot..."

"This embodiment utilizes soybean oil as a lubricant, but other lubricants, especially other edible lubricants, may be used. In other embodiments, a wood oil may be used in the composition in conjunction with the grape vine to add additional flavoring. For example, hickory wood oil will provide a hickory wood flavor when cooking as compared to a mesquite wood oil which will provide a mesquite wood flavor when cooking. Any wood oil containing a desired flavor is within the scope of this invention, and particularly: apple, alder, cherry, hazelnut, hickory, maple, mesquite, oak, and pecan wood oils."
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I will gladly stick to a brand that very CLEARLY states what's in their pellets and what the mix ratio is right on the bag. I know exactly what I'm getting. :)
 
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svinyard

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Gentleman, thank you for your help here. I'm putting all of this up on Traegers (very active) facebook page to see if I can get them to come clean about all of this. So far I have gotten aforementioned responses but they have been very "hogwashy"!

That patent info was great, wow. I hope that gets a response.
 
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