with all the good things I been hearing about stove chow I grabbed 6 bags when i was at my local hd this weekend. all the bags came from the same ton, but what I noticed was 3 of the bags were dark colored pellets which burned very clean and very hot, the other 3 bags had a light colored pellet which were terrible, lots of ash, low heat.......the fire from the dark pellet was almost white with alot of blue flame, the lighter pellet had a very dark flame and had to crank the stove to get any kind of decent heat out of it......just thought i would share in case some of you were looking into gettin these by the ton