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I was given about 15 gallons of Northern Red Oak chips from my friend last Friday night. He said they were from a dead tree. I sieved them through a one inch opening screen and removed the large pieces that were retained by that screen. I then sieved them in a 1/8" opening mesh and discarded...

I know this is a really old post, 10 years, but I've been searching out the forum and learning a lot. I have grown Parsnips many times. I even saved the roots to produce seed the next year. I was a member of the Seed Savers Exchange at the time and offered them in the exchange. Winnowed the...

I was thinking a bit more about the temperature to dry the chips. Maybe low is the best way to avoid boiling off any volatile oils or other compounds that may contribute to the wood smoke flavor. I guess if I smell it, its not good. Thoughts?

If you keep them outdoors in full sun during the spring to fall seasons, they will trap plenty of insects. As the traps get larger, they can trap larger insects. I've seen flies, yellow jackets, daddy long legs, click beetles, moths etc.. If your grandkids want to feed them, they might have good...

I am thinking I'll just ask those in the area if they wouldn't mind the experiment. But I can't set off the smoke alarm either. That will call the FD, and that's a big no no.

Thanks. I love garlic. When I make a batch of Cowboy Beans to serve 50 people (1 3/4 gallons) I use about 100 cloves of garlic in it. When I cook eggs for my breakfast, I fry an onion and maybe two bulbs of garlic with them. Our garlic lasts us about a year. Sometimes I have to throw some out in...

Hi all. I just found the forum a few days ago because I had/have some questions on drying green wood chips. I put up a post over here http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/268116/green-wood-chips  I am a novice smoker. My wife bought me an electric Brinkman used at a garage sale last year. It was...

MyOwnIdaho-I hope my post was appropriate. Should I have started a new thread about it? New here and am used to keeping similar topics in the same thread. 

Ha Ha MoSparky. I don't want to sound like a know it all, its just that latin names are fairly easy for me to remember, and it really does eliminate confusion when discussing plants with others. And they are really easy to grow as long as you only water them with rain water or distilled water...

So I spoke to a few friends last night about this project. One that is a finish carpenter said it is estimated that wood dries one inch of thickness per year in a covered outdoor shed with plenty of spacing between the planks. (which is to say that it will take forever to dry a full sized log...

New to the forum and just doing some looking around. I grow Rocambole every year. I got my first garlic in 1986 from a Polish woman named Paula that lived in Garfield, NJ. I've been growing it every year since. My boss gave me some garlic from a friend of his in NY State a few years back. It is...

Anybody here like CP? I have our native pitcher plant, Sarracenia purpurea along with S. leucophylla and what is most likely a S. purpurea X S. leucophylla hybrid out of the greenhouse where I've purchased my plants. The owner supplies most of the Venus Fly Traps to garden centers in North...

Thanks for the welcomes, and thanks Jeff. I added my signature. I still have not looked around the site much, but it looks like it'll be very worthwhile. 

Chris I agree the seasoned log idea is best. And maybe he may have some. Then again, I know a second tree man that also stores logs for eventual splitting and sale as fire wood. So now I'll have to see if they have seasoned wood. That really would be best. I'd love to stay with chunks. I like...

Hi Dave Thanks for replying. Sorry for the confusion about how we will store the chips. We plan on placing the chips in covered garbage cans inside an unheated detached garage. I know there won't be any problem for the chips if they are dry. The problem is that they will be green when we get...