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Pellet Review by ManKitchenRecipes

Tom — Tue, 31 May 2022 22:55:53 +0000

Opening the Box

Cooking

Kevin had recently done a pellet review youtube and it was a good through review, but it didn’t include our pellets. I wrote Kevin and asked him if he’d like to try our pellets this video and comment are the result. It gives me great pleasure to see people enjoying these pellets as much as I do! Try a bag, you won’t be dissappointed.

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Food Grade BBQ Pellets, From Start to Finish

Tom — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 22:23:53 +0000

Receiving oak in food grade bins.

Wine Infused Oak Pellets 20lb Bag.

When barbecuing for family and friends, naturally you want them to have the best. We start with oak from trees grown for oaking wine. Oaks are hardy trees and usually grown in sustainably managed forests. Wine making oak contains no bark. Unlike orchard woods, oak trees are not fertilized or sprayed with pesticides, fungicides and mildewcides to protect a crop.

After juice ferment, wine making oak is added to the tank during the aging process. When the wine is finished, the the oak is removed from the tank, and put into our food grade macro bins. Wine Country BBQ collects these bins and stores the oak in covered stacks for drying. When ready, oak goes into our production line and is made into pellets.

The product never touches the ground during its transformation from oak blocks to pellets. Finally the pellets are measured into heavy duty food grade bags and are sewn closed, ready to ship to you or your local store.

Stacked bins of oak drying.

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Our first YouTube review

Tom — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:42:33 +0000

Thank you for the compliments Mike, glad you’re enjoying our pellets!

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Better than barrels?

Tom — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 20:06:22 +0000

When wine is made in stainless steel tanks, oak is added to produce similar flavors to wine aged in barrels. This wine making oak is usually French White Oak that is carefully toasted. The degree of toasting is carefully controlled to impart different flavors to the wine. Wine making oak is immersed in wine for months, deeply infusing each piece. And because it is toasted, it rapidly soaks up the wine.

Barbecue pellets made from wine making oak benefit from being toasted. Toasting removes harsh volatile compounds that can give smoked foods an acrid flavor. Each piece of oak is fully toasted unlike a barrel which is only toasted on the inside. Oak being a neutral flavored hardwood and having a high BTU content is an excellent wood to barbecue with. Not only is each piece deeply saturated, but the pink color seen above are wine lees that are packed with flavor. Wine making oak, and only wine making oak, goes into every wine infused oak barbecue pellet we make.

We hope that you enjoy the food cooked with these pellets as much as we do.

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