Features:

  • Made from actual trees, not just residual wood.
  • Made using the bark and cambium layer of trees. This is the area where the most flavor in a tree resides.
  • Made in a smaller diameter to create a hotter burn and more smoke with more surface area.
  • Available in a multitude of flavors including pure and blended mixtures
  • Made in the USA
The real deal

I am new to the pellet grill world and I felt my pellet grill wasn’t producing enough smoke as I’m use to a stick burner. I tried so many different brands and different types of wood with no luck until I tried these pellets. These 100% mesquite pellets are the real deal and I have finally received feedback that my meat was too smokey. Now we are talking! I won’t buy anything else since it is easier to protect your meat from smoke but not so easy to add smoke.

Best pellets available.

What can I say. Lumberjack makes the best pellet smoker pellets available and I've been doing this since 1999 and tried them all. These are 100% pure wood and not laced with "flavor oils" like certain other brands. This is what I use in competitions and at home. I always get a nice clean smoke and little ash with Lumberjack pellets.

Real apple wood pellets.

I use these pellets in my A-MAZE-N Pellet Smoker for both cold smoking cheeses and hot smoking bacon. Flavor is very good and not bitter. Definitely apple. I have some competition blend and it doesn't work as well for my bacon as this does. Have no trouble keeping pellets burning while using the tray in my mailbox mod for the masterbuilt smoker. Highly recommend if you are looking for pellets to give your smoke some apple flavor.

Holy Smokes!

I have been smoking for decades. Earlier this year I purchased a pellet smoker because I would rather enjoy my family rather than babysit a pit all the time. My research before purchasing the pellet grill showed that I wouldn't be able to obtain the level of smoke flavor that I'd grown accustomed to from my traditional smokers. Unfortunately my actual experience with the pellet grill had proven my research correct. That is until I tried these pellets! I smoked two pork butts on my pellet grill that were amazing and had the smoke flavor that matched that of my traditional smokers. Now I have the best of both worlds! Lumber Jack pellets are the best that I have found (I have tried many brands)! They will turn your pellet grill into a smoker that will rival any smoker out there.

Excellent high quality food smoking pellets

I smoke meat quite often in a big Cookshack. These pellets are fantastic. The flavors are great, pure wood extrusions with no bark or bitterness at all, high quality and consistency and they burn evenly and reliably. The only issue is the bags are too thin and easy to tear spilling pellets in the garage, so I am often taping tears with duct tape, but this is not too bad once you know to be careful and because the pellets are such high quality it is not worth reducing a star.

High quality pellets

These arrived much quicker than was confirmed when I ordered them (5 days ahead of scheduled delivery) were well packaged, undamaged and dry. I bought these to use in my "tube" in a "mailbox modification" (meat smokers you'll know what I'm talking about...) for cold smoking cheese and they work perfectly. Easy to light, long burning (I get about 6 hours of smoke using my large tube) and good flavor... I have used them in my "chip pan" in both my electric smoker and propane smoker and have even added them to my charcoal smoker and they've performed wonderfully. This is my second purchase and I will buy them again.

Easy way to increase smoke flavor

At first I thought the bag was misfilled because I'm used to my Green Mountain pellets bags being all the way full, this bag wasn't (see pic), and it didn't feel like 40 lbs. It must be a much wider bag because I weighted it and it was exactly 40.1 lbs, so kudos to them. Now for the review: Let me say that going from GMG to Lumber Jack pellets has kinda renewed my interest in my pellet smoker. I used the Texas and the Fruitwood GMG pellets and neither imparted any real smoke flavor. I was bummed and thought it was a limitation of a pellet grill, but in fact it was just a limitation of the GMG pellets. After switching to these and adding an A-MAZE-N 12" tube (which fits perfectly all the way to the left of the GMG Daniel Boone w/o interfering with the upper rack), the smoke flavor I get is right on par with my old Masterbuilt and heavier than pretty much every barbecue place you'd eat at. I think the increased smoke flavor is a combination of: 1 - Lumber Jack uses the whole tree, including the bark, where is where a ton of flavor comes from. 2 - These have a smaller diameter of 7/32" compared to 1/4" of GMG and other brands. While 1/32" doesn't seem like a huge difference, the added surface area has a definite increase on the amount of smoke coming from my smokestack, which I assume translates to more smoke and flavor on the food. The smaller diameter also helps decrease jams and "bridging" of pellets in the hopper, leaving a gap that can't fall into the auger, which I haven't experienced yet but others have. Two other things to note: 1 - I haven't noticed an increase in ash or dust in the firebox as others have, but I'm only one bag in. If there is slightly more, the tradeoff is well worth the added flavor. 2 - These get as hot as other brands, at least the hickory does. I had my GMG up to 450 and it never struggled to maintain temp. Bottom line is thers are awesome enough to make me want to leave a review. I've found my new brand and cannot believe how much of an improvement just changing the pellets made.

Lots of smoke

I have been looking for bbq pellets that are close to using split wood. I visited the Lumber Jack web site and read their process for making their pellets and thought I would give them a try. I am really satisfied with the amount of smoke generated although my GMG Davy Crocket seems to take a little longer making temperature but I do not mind as long as I am getting the right smoke. So far I have used the 100% oak and I am going to order some other types of wood to test. I have learned I can blend the Lumber Jack with other pellets to help increase the smoke which works great

These are simply the best brand of pellet to smoke food with.

These are the best quality pellets I have ever used. They are ALL hickory and have very very low moisture content. They are slightly smaller than other pellets, and it if makes a difference it must be good because they food produced by these are taste better than all of other blended brands. Their (not this product) apple pellets are almost the only PURE APPLE pellets that can be found with zero adulterants. This company knows what we want to cook over.

My go-to pellet brand

Lumberjack pellets are really amazing. They stand out from other brands with a better flavor and slightly more smoke flavor compared to other pellet brands (due to the smaller diameter and more lignen). I've tried MBC, competition blend, and apple from lumberjack, and all three are great. Is still rather smoke with my stick-burner, but if I must use the pellet smoker, these pellets are the way to go. The one drawback is that these pellets produce a small amount more ash than other brands. This isn't an issue of you clean your burn pot each time, or if you are using these in a tube smoke generator.

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