Quote Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck View Post
about 250ish
You might end up with a drier chicken than usual. Bump it up to 325 min, next time. Whoel birds after tonights @ 325 will be done at 425 as a rfew recipes suggest. This way the skin isn't rubbery, bird isn't dry eyc.

Quote Originally Posted by colorider View Post
For those using traegers, you kinda have to tend to the pellet hopper when doing long smokes. The pellets will form a hole and not feed. The pellets form a funnel shape in the hopper and the auger no longer gets pellets. You have to move the pellets around to avoid the funnel effect. A way to minimize this is to keep the hopper as full as possible. I have had my traeger for over 3 years and love the thing. I fabbed up a hopper extention and sloped sides so I don't get the failure to feed pellet funnel anymore.
We found once you do temps over 350, those pellets go fast. This new unit is a deeper hopper with shallower sides, so they drop fairly steady. Something to consider is adding a baffle to the hopper.