How is everyone handling the excess wood dust in new bags of pellets. I was thinking about getting a cooking colander to sift out the dust.

Thoughts?

How is everyone handling the excess wood dust in new bags of pellets. I was thinking about getting a cooking colander to sift out the dust.

Thoughts?

I dump everything into the hopper. It all gets burned up.

Someone on PH had a home made pellet dust remover.  Great pics of a DIY setup that worked great.  Hopefully Bentley might be able to find it for us??

Would have been N0OC..aka Alfred E Numan and it is in a section that was Members Eyes Only and none of those sections can be accessed. Buy a site just to shut it down...amazing...I guess Larry really did get under his skin!

How is everyone handling the excess wood dust in new bags of pellets. I was thinking about getting a cooking colander to sift out the dust.

Thoughts?

I dump everything into the hopper. It all gets burned up.

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I don’t worry about it

I use a plastic collinder to sift through the last few pellets in the bag.

Some tends to settle to the bottom of the bag/container. When I get down to that, I sort out the remaining pellets. I don't worry much about it beyond that. I will occasionally run the hopper down to the auger to clear out dust build up, and blow or sweep down any sticking to the side of the hopper.

I just sift the dust with my hands when it looks like there is much of it. In my cookers, some of the dust is burned, and the rest is just blown into the bowels of the cookers by the fan, where it is periodically cleaned out with the rest of the mess.

Some tends to settle to the bottom of the bag/container. When I get down to that, I sort out the remaining pellets. I don't worry much about it beyond that. I will occasionally run the hopper down to the auger to clear out dust build up, and blow or sweep down any sticking to the side of the hopper.

I do the same thing.  I don't worry much about it either.  I saw a video on YouTube of a fella that made a quite fancy dust remover for his corn and pellets.  Here's the link.  Doesn't look too hard to make.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtrojwUG0BM

I guess the methodology comes into play. I sift with a plastic colander regardless of manufacturer.

Dump the pellets in? Fine. Does it all burn up? Does it leave no ash? Does it affect temps and times?

Too many unanswered questions. I sift, and the dust that gets left behind is tossed with the bag.

Put the dust in your flower beds, good compost.

Put the dust in your flower beds, good compost.

Unless ya have a home owners association that is ignorant. 

Last winter I left the lid on my pellet storage bin open slightly during a heavy rain. Next time I went to cook I noticed about 1" layer of swollen, wet pellets on top. I was going to toss them but figured what the heck. I threw them into the hopper along with a bunch of dry pellets and the grill didn't mind one bit. It had no trouble maintaining the temp I set it to, and did not produce excess smoke or ash. I probably would not do this if I had a grill with a long auger, but the auger on the Memphis is very short and wet pellets and dust don't seem to affect it.

I have a very small amount of "dust" so all goes in with no problems...

I seem to remember this was posted "over there" as a solution for cleaning fines from pellets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmN9uF5oJGA