Wood for smoking.

[ChrisR3510]

I am a cabinet maker & sometimes have lots of wood cutoffs & scraps of red & white oak, cherry & maple.
Would these cutoffs make good smoking wood?
They would not work for me because, I have a pellet grill. Someone else might get use out of them if they would work.

 

[pineywoods]

The biggest problem with using cutoffs and scraps is knowing whether they have had any chemicals and what kind used on them at any time.

 

[HalfSmoked]

Yeah what Jerry said. One can never be to safe.

Warren

 

[unclebubbas bbq]

I am a cabinet maker as well. I use white oak, cherry and hard maple all the time for my charcoal smokers. There are absolutely no chemicals imparted into the wood when it goes into the drying kiln.

 

[chopsaw]

I have a bunch of off fall and hardwood saw dust . My choice is not to use it for cooking .

 

[HalfSmoked]

May be true when it goes into the kiln but one doesn't know all the places or treatments it may receive before you receive it.

As said better safe than sorry.

Warren

 

[HalfSmoked]

Thanks for the like ChrisR3510 it is appreciated.

Warren

 

[Fueling Around]

I used kiln dried lumber scraps when I had my offset.
The last bag of RO Lump I purchased was roughly 25% kiln dried scraps.

If lumber was treated with something, it would mess up the staining and varnishing