Why should you cook with pellets instead of charcoal or gas?

Taste rules! Cooking with pellets will impart to the barbecued food, the true flavor of the wood. Cooking with gas will impart no flavor at all. Cooking with charcoal risks imparting the flavor of the chemical or fluid used to light the briquettes. This is why people who cook with pellet grills regularly win the barbecue competitions. These contests are based on taste and the food cooked with pellet grills simply tastes better!

Cooking on pellet grills is easier! Your Green Mountain Pellet Grill will maintain the temperature you set it at. When you use a gas stove you must keep an eye on the flame and adjust it regularly. When you cook with charcoal you must constantly adjust the amount of air to keep a constant temperature. With our internal thermal sensor you just choose the temperature and let it cook!

Pellet grills are made for your choice: quick, hot cooking, slow cooking, or a combination of both. You can char or sear the outside of your steak or burger for that caramelized sugar taste that everyone loves! This is called the Maillard Reaction and occurs at 372 degrees F. Our Green Mountain Pellet grills cook on high at 500 degrees, so getting that dark brown sear you like to see on your meat is no problem! Slow cooking results in more thorough conversion of collagen to gelatin, which flavors and tenderizes the meat fibers. Better yet, you may go with your own combination of quick and slow cooking. With Green Mountain Grills’ thermostatic control you can set the grill's internal temperature exactly where you want it.

Pellet grills produce uniformity of tenderness and flavor because they cook at a constant temperature. The collagen in beef turns to gelatin when you cook it to an internal temperature of 140°. This gelatin flavors and tenderizes your steak. But when the internal temperature of the beef exceeds 149°, the gelatin dissolves and merely escapes into the fire. You can precisely control the cooking temperature of a pellet grill so that you can cook your steak to a perfect internal temperature under 150°, and you can still char the outside to get that caramelized surface texture and taste we all crave.

The Green Mountain grill’s accurate temperature control also lets you cook many things outside that you would ordinarily relegate to the kitchen: breads, pizzas, vegetables, turkeys, hams, casseroles, meat loaf, even cookies. And yes, you get a great natural taste which will exceed your expectations!

Pellet grills are friendly to the environment. The pellets are made with sawdust, which would get thrown away if it weren’t used. They burn very efficiently, producing less than 15% of the EPA wood burning exhaust guideline.