Wood blends

[motolife313-2]

I’m an oak guy. I also like plum. Burns slow and not real hot. Cherry is a good one too Burns hot. Apple least favorite. Burns hot and fast with lots of ash

 

[mneeley490]

Pellets for me. I buy 100% flavor wood, and will often custom blend for whatever I feel like smoking. Got to enjoying straight orange wood with poultry, but that's hard to find.
Used to be, I could discern what wood was burning by the smell of the smoke alone, unless it was several types at once.

 

[tallbm]

Pellets for me. I buy 100% flavor wood, and will often custom blend for whatever I feel like smoking. Got to enjoying straight orange wood with poultry, but that's hard to find.
Used to be, I could discern what wood was burning by the smell of the smoke alone, unless it was several types at once.

Ooooh who is making 100% Orange pellets???

 

[mneeley490]

Ooooh who is making 100% Orange pellets???

100% Orange Wood Pellets — 1 lb. bag | BBQr's Delight

This wonderful, citrus smoke is great for fish (of course), pork and poultry. If you marinate beef in a citrus-based liquid, Orange smoke just layers another citrus taste on top of it. If you smoke skinless chicken breast, the meat will have a distinct orangey, caramel color.

bbqrsdelight.com

 

[tallbm]

100% Orange Wood Pellets — 1 lb. bag | BBQr's Delight

This wonderful, citrus smoke is great for fish (of course), pork and poultry. If you marinate beef in a citrus-based liquid, Orange smoke just layers another citrus taste on top of it. If you smoke skinless chicken breast, the meat will have a distinct orangey, caramel color.

bbqrsdelight.com

Very interesting but yeah they do charge a good bit for 1 pound of the stuff hahahaha.
Might be worth getting 1 pound of of some of those flavors just to play around with. I still never burned through most of my old "blends" that I bought when I got into all of this. You know back before knowing that most pellets were NOT 100% of the wood labeled on the bag hahaha.

I'm getting there but it's so hard to burn the less desirable pellets when you have the good stuff you know is great to use :D

 

[mr_whipple]

I use store bought wood chunks, and sometimes mix hickory and cherry, but I mix it up in the pellet pooper and the maze. Can't recall who here told me not to run straight cherry dust in my maze, but last night I ran the MES40 with a mix of dust made from cabela's cherry and pit boss fruit blend and that was money. Did a cured duck breast (post pics later or tomorrow). I have a bag of pecan blend that I'm going to mix with the cherry also as I've read a few folks here doing cherry pecan.

 

[in. pred]

i have played with a bunch of local woods. things like lilac, redbud, hackberry,........al good in their own way. like said they all give something different. i favor all the fruit woods, mesquite, hickory, oak, maple(one of my favorite over the fire woods!) my maple tree in the yard gives some super red bark on the meat, and has a slight sweetness.