Types of wood for smoking?

[maineguide]

Apple or Alder good for about any type of smoking.

 

[Mulebrain]

I prefer Hickory and a hardwood called BlackJack. Really any hardwood can be used with varying degrees of taste!

Don't use Pine or pressure treated lumber!

No plywood either :grin:

 

[Rooster]

My favorite and to me aint nuttin better then
Hickory just puts flavor in there so much yer toung will slap yer face to death ta get another bite.. Blackjack is a speice of oak. Just about all oak is good fer smokeing. Some others are
Pecon(pecan)
apple
orange
guava
alder
But Oak is a giveing wood fer just about anything
you want. Its mild and will do a great job also easy to get. Hope this here helps :thumbsup:

Rooster

 

[TANSTAAFL]

Alder in the north country, hickory back east, mesquite here in AZ.

 

[Blizzard of '93]

You ever use hickory nuts? they do good. I like apple wood for birds and pork.

 

[Pahaska]

Pecan is of the hickory family. I use hickory. I start with dry hickory, and progress to green a little later. I smoke hams and bacon for 72 hours. I've had lots of compliments on my smokin' abilities. A few years back at Thanksgiving, my sister baked a ham, and I brought a smoked one. Mine was gone at the end of the day, and hers was almost complete. I've tried most every kind of wood, but nothing beats hickory for smokin'. Pahaska

 

[Otter]

I have found you can use just about any kind of hardwood or fruitwood and get a good flavor. I've used cedar, hickory, oak, apple, cherry, pear, mesquite and a few others. I like the apple best for all around smoking, cedar for salmon.

 

[spudnut]

Back in my bachalor days I arrived with chicken at a buddies house ,him not home ,I took a bunch of cherry limbs he had cut down and fired the bbq.no salt or pepper and the best chicken I ever ate..Is the grape vine you speak of the same big vines we find growing in the woods of Michigan?or do you have to rob the nieghbors arbor/....Mark

 

me and mine have always used pecan wood and it gives the meat a robust flavor better than mesquite or hickory as far as i am concearned

 

[tg]

Out here on the left coast wild vine Maple is popular, just be caerfull where you cut it, I used to find a Beaver colony and steal what they had cut the night before..

 

[16gauge]

just out of curiousity, has anyone tried wood from a crab apple tree? How about a sugar maple?

 

[Blizzard of '93]

I have used maple wood, it did well. also cherry. have heard that pecan does well. my favorites are hickory and apple.

 

[spottedpony]

i've mostly used apple, cherry, or hickory, though with hickory,ive found its easy to use too much so the flavor is overpowering

 

[shmrck1]

My favorites:
Hickory
Cherry
Maple
snake-eyes :hmm:

 

[Otter]

just out of curiousity, has anyone tried wood from a crab apple tree? How about a sugar maple?

Works fine . . . apple wood is apple wood, the smoker doesn't know the difference between "delicious" and "crab".