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Smoking On a Pellet Grill in a Power Outage
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May 21, 2024
I decided it was high time to test out both my Pit Boss Austin XL Pellet Grill and my Jackery Explorer 1000 solar generator in a real emergency-type situation. The test was to see if a pellet grill is a feasible alternative cooking option if there's no power. I wanted to know just how much electricity a pellet grill needs and if my Jackery could handle it, even for a long smoke. Did I ruin Thanksgiving for my family? Or did a slay it? Shoutout to Malcolm Reed. Thanks for the amazing guidance on smoking my turkey (and so many other things)! Here's the recipe I was following - https://howtobbqright.com/2021/11/04/butter-herb-smoked-turkey/ Pantry Preparedness is a trademark of Income School LLC, an Idaho Limited Liability Company
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Hey, good morning. It's Thanksgiving Day here at our home, and I've got a turkey to smoke
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but I wanted to do something interesting. I've got this Jackery solar generator here. I bought this last year on Black Friday
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I just want to show you it's currently at 99%. So it's pretty much full. This is the Explorer 1,000
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110 volt,000 watts is what it's capable of. And, uh, should be way more than I need, obviously, to power this
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But I was a little bit curious to see what sort of draw this would pull, as well as just how well this would handle a, you know, four hours or so of smoking
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In part because I want to test out all of my emergency year all the time. Solar generators are something I was fairly skeptical about
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but I found over the last year a lot of uses for it in everyday life, which I highly recommend using it fairly regularly if it's something that's going to be in your emergency kit
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but also because batteries like these, they do tend to slowly drain
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and once they're completely out, leaving them dead for a long time is a problem
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So if you have a solar battery like this and it sits in storage for several years
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that's going to be a problem. Now, I've been impressed by this one
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I charge it to a full charge after I last used it. It's been a couple of months, and it's still 99%
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So didn't even recharge it. So we're going to plug it in
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We're going to get this thing warming up, and then I'm going to put the turkey on
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I'm plugging it into this. All right, we're gonna turn this thing on
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Yeah, no problem. Because if it turns off while we're gone. It won't
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It's putting out currently 2 watts. Can handle 1,000. Now we'll kick it on
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We'll set it to smoke. That's just how we get it warming
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And it currently drawing 187 watts And this also holds capacity Capacity or a thousand sorry a thousand watt hours A thousand watts for an hour
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If it's using 200 watts, that's more than five hours. It's not even using 200 for watt
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I'll check on it. So I'm generally following a recipe from Malcolm Reed from how to Barbecue right
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I'll link to that in the description because he's good. He certainly knows what he's talking about
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So this is going to be my rub here. It's basically a mix of like a poultry seasoning, a poultry rub actually is what I chose
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Some granulated garlic, garlic powder, and kosher salt, coarse kosher salt. So that's what I'm going to be rubbing on here
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First I'm going to brush on a bunch of this butter. For you like avid grillers, I'm probably doing stuff wrong, I'm sure
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I bet Malcolm would be disappointed in me. I don't know. I think he's awesome and would probably be glad to see me doing it
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I did the turkey three, four years ago for my wife's family and on the pellet grill
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And ever since then, this is what we have. You've credit where it's due
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My dad started it the year before he did our family turkey
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And my wife is like, oh my gosh, this is the best turkey I've ever had
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So she's the one that made it happen with her family too. Inspired by my dad in a lot of ways
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All right, I'm just hanging on to that. So once I got the grill good and lit, I went back out there to turn up the temperature to 300
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And it was only pulling 26 watts. So things are going to last just fine
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I went ahead and turned up the temperature. didn't even change the wattage. Like fries out a little bump for a second and then jump back down sitting around 25 26 watts So basically it going to work really well to use that solar generator I find a solar generator be a really handy thing for emergency preparedness
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especially for kind of the normal everyday emergencies. It's a lot smaller than a normal generator
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It's quiet. I can use it indoors. I can power a little electric heater with it. I can power lights with it, all sorts of stuff
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I have the solar panels to go with it. So I can recharge pretty well during the day
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I mean, as long as I have sun, and as long as the emergency doesn't last like forever, we're pretty good
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But I also have one of those tri-fuel larger generators of Furman from Costco
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And that's definitely for like powering the freezers and stuff. Anyway, just thought I'd share that
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It's not pulling a whole lot of wattage. So we're going to see how this lasts throughout the day. But I'm pretty confident we're going to be just fine
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Just listening to some Jocko podcast. But now I've got to run out to the garden
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Calls for a little bit of onion. And believe it or not, our onions haven't like completely
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gone to seed or anything yet. We've got onions still here to harvest. I'll grab a few of these
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I think that will do. I'll get one more. See, we're up to temperature yet? Let's go check out how much power we're using. We are up to
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temperature. It says 305. Still, 26 watts. I'm at 94%. It was pulling more power at the beginning
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when it was igniting. But now we're steady at 26 back inside
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You know the recipe good when it tells you to put an entire stick of butter inside the turkey
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Alright, it's in. I also just found out that Jocko doesn't like sushi, so I knew I liked him
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I'm gonna add some more pellets to make sure I don't run out, but we're good
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Currently using 46 watts, still a 93%
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Alright and this my friends is a beautiful smoked turkey. I already took a bunch of drippings out to make gravy with
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The jacket is still at 71% running off 24 watts. I'm gonna call that a success
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both on the turkey and on being able to use that jackery to run this because you know most of the
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energy being used up here is from the pellets obviously not from the electricity so it's a great
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alternative cookie source i have a normal propane grill too i also like to cook with charcoal so
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uh i think knowing and being capable of and having the resources for multiple alternative
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cooking methods is definitely the way to go for real emergency preparedness anyway thanks for joining me
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Until next time
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