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Outdoor Cooking Equipment => Grills & Smokers => Pellet Grills and Smokers => Topic started by: Old Dave on November 16, 2013, 03:25:07 AM
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This is my first cook on my new Davy Crockett pellet grill which is manufactured by the Green Mountain Grill company. This is their version of a portable, tailgate, RV, or camping type of grill. It is lightweight at 57 pounds and has handles to carry and they also fold over to make legs for the cooker to stand on. Some other features is the large capacity hopper for pellets at 9 pounds which will allow you about 9 hours cooking time so it can go overnight. It has a digital controller with a built in food probe and the cooking range of the cooker is from 150 degrees to 550 degrees. Also has the “Open Flame Technology” which allows you to cook indirect or direct with just a small adjustment to the heat diffuser grid which can be done with the cooker in use or before you fire it up. To keep the portable theme, the grill is totally 12 volt and is designed to run off of the 12 volt socket in your car, maybe a marine battery or other type of battery, or in my case, a jump starter. It will also operate off of 110 volts with the adapter. The adapter, cords, and all the different hookups do come with the cooker.
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This picture shows it beside my standard sized Daniel Boone Grill. Seems to be a very nice package.
For my first cook, I decided to do some appetizers and wanted some with bacon in order to get the cooker oiled up from the cook. I decided on some ABT’s, Moink Balls, Breaded Hot Wings, Pig Shots, and some Sea Turtle Eggs.
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I prepped all but the breaded hot wings the day before the cook.
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Rolled the cooker around to my cooking patio and hooked up my 12 volt jump starter and then fired it up. Brought it up to 350 degrees and let it burn for about an hour to get all the manufacturing oils and gunk burnt off of the internal parts. I then lowered the temp and loaded the cooker with about half of my appetizers.
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I have a small raised grid that I made for another cooker that just fit this one so I used it to gain some extra space.
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The breaded hot chicken wings on the cooker.
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Some of my appetizers coming off of the cooker.
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Presentation Platter...
I think it’s going to be a keeper!!
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Looks really tasty, Dave!
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Nice looking apps Dave!
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OK, I'll bite...
What are pig shots and sea turtle eggs?
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Excellent recap, OD ;D -- Thanks for giving us a walk-thru on the Crockett. It seems to be a very capable portable.
Hub
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Mr bbqchef,
You can find the Pig Shots or Pork Shooters on my site
http://olddavespo-farm.blogspot.com/2012/09/pig-shots.html
You can find the Sea Turtle Eggs on this site
http://www.nibblemethis.com/2012/03/moink-balls-armadillo-eggs-and-sea.html
Hope this helps...
Dave
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Awesome food and great details on the Davy Crockett Dave!
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Great looking little cooker Dave!
How much run time did you get on your jumper? Not having to run it off an inverter must increase the time 8)
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Looks great Dave! :) Nice to see you had better luck controlling the temperatures with the Davy Crockett than we had with the Traeger PTG :(
Still using my PTG but I'm holding out until MAK comes out with their version. Maybe they'll call it the "Mini MAK" ;D 8) ;)
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looks great. can you come and do the same for me on super bowl?
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Those look good
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Looking great, Dave. The pork shooters sound delicious - will be making those soon!
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muebe,
My jump starter has 3 lights showing charged, half charged, and discharged. After about 5 hours, the longest time I have run the cooker, the jump starter showed half charged. I am still not sure just how long it will go but would hope about 10 hours.
Dave
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I like the design of that cooker. At $379 MSRP - Not a bad price either.
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And right now, you can get 40 dollars off of that price at any dealer.
Dave
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muebe,
My jump starter has 3 lights showing charged, half charged, and discharged. After about 5 hours, the longest time I have run the cooker, the jump starter showed half charged. I am still not sure just how long it will go but would hope about 10 hours.
Dave
I have got about 2 1/2 hours using an inverter and a small jumper box on my PTG. I ran it until the inverter starting buzzing indicating a low battery. So as I suspected there is a huge energy savings by omitting the inverter. Very cool!
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I been thinking about one of these for the motor home How does it perform.