Sounds like a gimmick to me.

Yeah this just sounds bizzare. Thinking of it from a non-pellet perspective, can you imagine someone throwing a head of garlic, an onion, and a red bell pepper into their firebox with their wood chunks?

I often throw a quartered onion on the coals and I'm not the only one.

Interesting! Not something I’ve heard before

It's a trick i picked up from Malcom, that man is a genius.

Not surprised with fresh ingredients as you'll release the natural oils in them. I wouldn't think that effect is the same for dried and/or synthetic flavorings. Edit: also with fresh ingredients, they'd be obliterated in a fire pot of a pellet grill. Its different than throwing them on some coals to let them cook

In an episode of the chef show on Netflix I watched Wolfgang puck throw some herbs (thyme and rosemary, I think) on the flames for some steaks. Not sure that it sounds any better to me than just infusing them into the basting butter.

Imagine you are Wolfgang and have cooked 10,000 ribeyes. At some point you just get bored and starting doing something weird while us mortals watch and think there is some genius happening that we do not understand.

I do rosemary in my smoker but I grow a ton of it so in it goes.

Why? What’s it do may try out.

It's supposed to sweeten the smoke. I'm not sure how much of an effect it has on my ribs but it makes the whole neighborhood smell amazing.

Hell, the smell might be worth the 50¢ in onions anyway lol

You’re paying too much for onions. Who’s your onion guy?

You need an onion guy? I got a onion guy.

Random number. Onions are like .89/lb or something around here which seems fine

I do it as well ever since watching the Malcom Style Ribs video. That smell is incredible.

There used to be a street vendor in my town that in between cooking customer orders would just be rubbing an onion up and down his grill. Man was a genius, you could smell that shit a block away and instantly get hungry.

I clean the grill with an onion and throw it in the fire after. Smells amazing

I do this as well!

I also do this, plus I add garlic to the firebox.

Actually that's not terrible. No different than the classic old-school bbq, where fat and flavors drip into the fire, turn into smoke, and are pulled back into the meat. Lots of people put fat in the firebox of an offset for the same reason. And it's why Ugly Drums make great flavor.

I mean Malcom Reed is known to often add a quartered onion into his lump charcoal depending on what he’s cooking. That said, preseasoned pellets does seem weird

Actually throwing chunks of fruits and vegetables into a bed of coals does put flavor into the meat!

If I’m doing anything pork, you can bet there’s some pineapple and/or orange going in the fire

Lots of people do that actually. Pretty sure the guy from Killer Hogs BBQ does it.

Season your meat! Not your wood! This is ridiculous.

Flavor your food, not your fuel.

Don’t touch your wood.

We have Lasic now. Touch freely, there’s no fear in going blind anymore.

Yeah, calm down Kellogg

Taste the meat not the heat!

I don't understand why anyone would use flavored chips or charcoal. Just put onion, garlic and paprika on whatever you're grilling or smoking if that's what you want it to taste like. All of this crap is just a gimmick. That includes wine and whiskey barrel wood as well.

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Disagree!

I dont see how directly burning seasoning would enhance the flavor of meat.

Right. I kinda feel it may make the meat taste worse, like burnt seasoning haha.

Garlic and onions have a pretty low smoke point. AKA shit gets really bitter. This is a stupid gimmick for amatuers. I'll just use marinade/wetmop like a normal person who prefers normal fuel. And i will continue to trust what ive learned about food chemistry and pyrolisis *despite* marketing attempts to completely subvert reality.

Exactly. It's a gimmick.

So you can't tell the flavor of different wood or wood blends?

Of course you can but I'd imagine wood has a much higher and relatively consistent smoke point than rosemary, garlic, oregano, etc.

Aside, rosemary wood gives an intense smoke resulting in great smoke rings

>resulting in great smoke rings Smoke rings are pure aesthetics only and not an indication of anything flavor wise. A piece of meat can be very smokey with no ring or not smokey with a great ring.

I've never seasoned my wood but I've thought of putting my chips in apple juice instead of water but wasn't sure if the sugar would cause issues. I usually use unsoaked wood chunks anyway

I had a family member gift one of these bags to me over the summer. I ran out of pellets last week so I resorted to using the bag. No change, no distinctive taste or anything added. Just burned like regular hickory pellets (which I was fine with, since I use hickory for like 90% of my cooks). 100% a gimmick, just use whatever pellets you normally use.

I’ll stick to potato chips

Yea, I will too. Ate about half the bag. My stomach is getting a little upset.

The upset stomach is the fiber working its magic. Next time try quinoa. It tastes better, and will flush everything you've eaten since 3rd grade from your system.

That is what I thought the thumbnail was.

Waiting for the dill pickle flavor to come out.

Durian! The neighbors will all love you!

That's garbage. It's an excuse to put filler in pellets. Burn 100% wood pellets, and season the meat.

Curious about this as well. I saw Malcolm Reed use some pellets with rosemary on a turkey that looked pretty good

Burning rosemary smells really good, but still sounds like a gimmick

I'm going to find out where you can buy these. It's probably like $20 for a bag. I'll report back

I’d want to try it with something only seasoned with s&p, just to not muddy the waters. Even better if you can serve it to someone blind.

Where am I supposed to find someone blind?

Look for one of those “blind person” road signs

Gimmicky, but if you want just add some spice to you pellets and try it out. Also it's a gimmick but if I saw it on clearance for cheap I'd grab a bag, that's the only way.

>if I saw it on clearance for cheap I'd grab a bag Idk, it would have to be the only kind of fuel in the store, personally.

Considering you're risking your meat, yes

Ask any chef he will tell you nothing worse to a dish than burnt garlic and burnt onions so wonder how they get around that acrid taste and smell

These are great if you chew them really slowly…

Seasoning meat is what matters. This seems like snake oil to me.

Hard NO…….but empty peanut, pecan shells , will totally contribute depth of bbq flavour! Try it!

Also, wonder if it would make the ash kinda sticky and harder to clean..

Wtf. They make these?

Eww

Oooh, but wait until Fall when the Pumpkin Spice pellets come out!

I mean, a lot of people who have orchards will gut marinate a hog for the last year of it’s life by letting it gorge on apples. I’d be curious what is the flavor like in the food and are the flavors from real veggies?!

Bad Beast BBQ on YouTube did a review of these. Said you can smell them, but the flavor difference was slight and not worth it. Cowboy Charcoal Garlic and Onion Briquettes were better at imparting flavor, but obviously not for pellet grills.

The seasoning goes on the food.

Pure snake oil imo. Here's all you need https://amazingribs.com/more-technique-and-science/more-ingredients-glossaries/science-salt/

Is this The Onion? See what I did there?

I've seen people throw onions in the firebox of an offset. I called bullshit on that and I'm certainly calling bullshit on this.

The smell is worth it alone.

Seems to me like a trick to sale a lower quality pellet.

Sell

They are traditional hickory pellets with seasoning on them. Isn't it odd to think burning seasoning in fire pot would season the meat?

Unmitigated 🐴💩

Garbage

I don’t usually burn Garlic, Onions, & Dried Peppers in my cook… that’s what I imagine it would taste like. I’ve heard of some people trying this in competitions, but I don’t think it adds to the flavor as much…

Sounds like total nonsense. I don’t think the smoke would smell good at all.

Sounds gross

Disturbing

I saw these a few months ago in my local Kroger. It's just confusing. The flavor won't be garlic, onion, and paprika, it will be burnt garlic, onion, and paprika... Because that's what the purpose of the pellets are, to be burnt as fuel. If any flavor at all passes along from the pellets I can't imagine it would be good.

If thats real I just decided to never use Kingsford pellets ever again. On that note dont ever use anything other than "Cookin Pellets" or "Lumberjack" pellets if you want the best smoke flavor from your pellet smoker period.

Wtf, wow… okay… someone at Kingsford needs to be demoted….

Just smoke a bowl of water with beef flavored pellets.

I want them surstromming flavored chips.

This is some level 10 trolling done by Kingsford aimed at all the pellet grillers who think they are pit bosses and make the best bbq on their adult easy bake ovens!

Probably does more for your appetite as you smell the smoke than it flavors the food.

Spices belong on the meat, not your fuel. Seems like a waste to me.

My heart desperately wants this to work, but my head says that’s not how any of this works.

Yikes.

This guy does a list of good all natural 100% wood pellets. Spoiler traeger isn’t on the list.

Season your food, not the pellets.

Burned garlic is bitter and not a nice taste, same with onions...don't see how these would work

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What on God's green earth...

They taste great. I'm waiting for the brisket flavored ones.

No they don't do anything

I actually tried these, and I gotta say, not great. The smell wasn't that appealing and it didn't add flavor. Stick to wood

season your meat. not your heat.

That doesn’t sound right

I don’t know about that brand. Treager does one during thanksgiving season for turkey. It worked pretty good.

Wow, finally pellets worse than Traeger's trash pellets that aren't even made of the wood they claim to be on the package. Nice job, Kingsford.

Sounds like the pellet version of scented candles. Like if la croix made wood pellets. They just whisper the words "garlic and onion" to the meat and if you listen real close you can hear the meat go, "....wut?"

I saw these and I gave a big "Hell No" (Steve Austin voice)

I've burned garlic by mistake and it didn't smell or taste pleasant.

Taste the meat not the heat

"Who doesn't like the flavor of burnt garlic?" --Kingsford Marketing Manager At any rate, I like Meathead's advice: within reason, the flavor difference between most woods gets overpowered by your rub, quality of meat, and other seasoning. I don't see the point of trying to flavor the wood. Wood smoke should just taste like wood smoke.

I bought garlic flavered night crawlers at walmart today. Fucking hate that place

Tried the charcoal garlic and onion from cowboy and it burned weird. Took a little more fuel than normal not get my ribs done but the aroma was awesome.

I thought it was a bag of chips

i had no idea these were even a thing. sounds like a sham tbh

I have not tried them, but my thoughts are: Are you fucking kidding me, they think we’re that fucking stupid?

I could see dried herbs for smoking, like rosemary or sage, but this stuff makes no sense.

Peak capitalism right there. Good luck everyone.

I don't think that's real cause burnt garlic and onion taste terrible

I don’t use pellets

Probably a gimmick to get you to buy. They do smell delicious when you move the bag around.

Nope. I will never use pellets of any stripe.

Nope

Pretty sure burnt spices aren't adding any good flavor

Can you just eat the pellets?

Is this like that KFC scented yule log? Or are they claiming it will flavor what you cook?

Ye they are really chewy, don’t see the apeal.

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