Cookshack 100% Hardwood Pellets

About BBQ Pellets

Barbecue pellets are around the size of an eraser on the end of a pencil.

People who see them for the first time think they look like rabbit food, but there is nothing small about the heat energy in a barbecue pellet. Over 8500 BTU's per pound!

Wood pellets are not new; they have been around for a long time used in industrial, commercial, and residential heating appliances and applications.

Only the finest hardwood raw materials are sourced from all over the USA. The pure, raw material (sawdust) is then pulverised with hammer mills and dried.

The dried material is then processed under heat and pressure. Lignin, which is the natural glue which holds plant fibre together, softens above 100 degrees Celsius, permitting the material to change shape.

The hot lignin then acts like a natural glue to bind the pellet togetherPelleting employs a hard steel die which rotates against rollers forcing the material through the die with pressures of over 10,000 PSI.

As the pellet is forced through the die it is sheared off at the specified length, cooled, screened, and bagged into 20lb bags

The American BBQ Company stocks 100% hardwood Hickory, Apple, Mesquite single-blend barbecue pellets and 100% Oak barbecue pellets. Please contact us for details on: 0845 230 1963, or via email at info@americanbbq.co.uk