Entburner said:
j-takeman said:
I switch last night too. The shoulder stuff wasn't cutting it. I dumped in some tweeners so I can save my Cubex & Hamers for the biter stuff to come! Probably around 0ºF nightime temps.
What is "shoulder stuff"?
Shoulder stuff is pellets that are high in ash, moisture content, and aren't really dense, while you can get heat out of them you won't do so as easily as a decent pellet.
So if you mis sized your stove as the cold temps hit you are likely to not be able to hold a set temperature on a shoulder pellet.
In short shoulder pellets are crap compared to a real high end pellet.
We can find all kinds of examples, just about every first run from a new pellet plant is likely to be early season (shoulder) pellets, fine when you aren't freezing your buns off and can deal with the extra cleaning. Not so good when you can barely keep the house warm on your highest usable heat setting.
Between pellets are those that can do the job between the shoulder season and the really cold season. I think you can figure out the rest.
Now once again everyone all pellets are the same correct?