Good apple chips or Bad apple chips??

[majorlee69]

When I think about smoking with apple I picture wood from a beautiful apple tree from a local orchard......what about the ugly, non producing apple tree in the back yard???? Do you think it's the same??

 

[bbq bubba]

Probably not producing because apple tree's need to be polinated from another tree!
Same wood, cut off a branch and season and try it!

 

[majorlee69]

It does bare fruit, their just really small and a nusence.

 

[brianj517]

Perfectly safe to use, majorlee. I do all the time. Several crabapple and wild cherry (choke cherry) in my back yard. Good stuff, all.

Cheers,
Brian

 

[kookie]

Sounds like just a different kind of apple tree lots of different types of apples out there............

 

[white cloud]

sounds like you might want to prune them anyhow to develop a nice shape and stimulate growth. Be sure to make clean cuts as close to the trunk as possilble.