PelHeat.com is an encyclopedia and database of all the pellet grills and pellet smokers currently available on the US market.
Hi, I’m Chris, and I’ve been interested in making, burning, and the various uses for pellets since 2007, when I first set up PelHeat.com.
Today, I spent a lot of time reviewing the specs/features of wood pellet grills and smokers to produce useful content to educate and inform.
While PelHeat.com has been around since 2007, it was not originally just about pellet grills and smokers. It was originally a resource on all things ‘pellet’.
When I first started to look into wood pellets, it was as a cheaper way to heat our home instead of using oil. However, I then started to get more interested in the process of how to make wood pellets.
The only small-scale equipment at the time I could get my hands on was manufactured in China. So, along with my father, we decided to import a small pellet mill and a hammer mill to learn how to make wood pellets.
We learned a lot about what did work and, most importantly, what didn’t. We eventually re-engineered the Chinese equipment into a mobile pellet machine with a more efficient/modern diesel engine and many other improvements.
It wasn’t just wood pellets we were interested in, but biomass pellets made from grasses, straws and energy crops. In 2008, the small mobile pellet machine we developed was featured in the leading national farmer’s magazine, Farmers Weekly.
This small mobile pellet machine taught us a lot about the process of making various biomass pellets. Unfortunately, after several years of development, it wasn’t possible to re-engineer the base Chinese equipment into a suitably reliable market-ready product that I was happy with.
To continue my work, I put my efforts into educating others on the pellet production process and marketing pellet production equipment, which I felt was of suitable quality and reliability.
My work was also featured in several articles by Biomass Magazine.
What About PelHeat.com Today?
After over a decade of marketing and promoting pellet mills and plants to make wood pellets, PelHeat.com is now a database of my favorite niche of pellets, pellet grills, and smokers.