Fuel for Smoking

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What is your preferred fuel for smoking?

  • Gas (or propane) + Wood

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  • Gas (or propane) + Wood + Charcoal (to supplement wood)

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  • Charcoal + Wood

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  • Lump Charcoal + Wood

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  • Lump Charcoal Only

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  • Wood Only

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  • Electricity + Wood

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  • Electricity + Wood + Charcoal (to supplement wood)

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smokeydrewsky

Fire Starter
Original poster
Apr 2, 2010
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Saint Louis, Missouri
Hi everyone... I'm trying to guage the best or most commonly used practices for fuel used in smoking. This is more just out of curiousity and to get a feel for the general composition of this crowd.

Thanks for participating!
-Andy-
 
I choose Charcoal + Wood but tend to mix it up. I like using pure wood but I do go through a good amount making the coals and heck making a fire is fun. The price of lump is a bit high in this area and I only like lump that is real wood and not scraps of construction material. So over all I would say Wood>Charcoal + Wood>Lump + Wood.
 
I have found that for my UDS RO lump works the best, lasts the longest, is easiest to control the temps, and has the least amount of ash. A 10 lb bag seems to last twice as long as a bag of Kingsford.
 
What he said. With cherry being my all-around wood...maybe some oak or hickory added in depending on whats smokin.
 
Electricity and wood chunks - Apple - Pecan - Cherry - Hickory so far
 
i havent done much smoking be for but what i have done was elec/wood chips. i have an old lil chief and have only tried hickory and applewood.
 
I use ONLY wood. And what Is left after a cook is placed in a place it's own and I use it for my lump cache.Cheaper and I don't get a bag of dust!!!And charcoal brickettes-'forget about it'.I have to breathe Petrol -by- products, I don't want to have to eat them too!!!
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Electric with lump, and wood chunks as needed for smoke.
Convenient and gives great flavor and smoke ring.
 
I use Kingsford Comp and wood in the UDS and propane and wood in the SnP.

Although I may have to do a charcoal smoke in the SnP one of these days for old times sake.
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Dave
 
I always run straight wood, sometimes use a chimney of lump to get things go'n. I also burn wood in my WSM, just gotta chunk it up more, but works great.
 
I'm a lump and wood chunk kind of gal if we are talking about the Egg. When it comes to the Klose it's all wood.
 
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