Using REALLY green Hickory

Not unless your into blackened creosote flavored food.

Bbq Bubba said:

Not unless your into blackened creosote flavored food.

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I support this statement!

Dry it in the oven.


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YES

Myron Mixon maybe? It can be done, usually with dry seasoned Oak as your heat source.

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BUT - Unless you have a wall of trophies like Jacks Old South.... iiiiiiiii wouldn't try it out.

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Take that back - I will just say this - I will lower the standards a bit....

Unless you don't mind wasting some meat (IF) you screw up, (which you may not) I think if you smoked hot and fast with a LARGE percentage of your heat and fuel coming from something like some good seasoned oak... which you can typically use with little smoke in the proper type of smoker, a few green logs, not representing more than 1/4 of your fire at any time, and placed on a well coaled VERY hot bed of coals (which is best for hot and fast) then you can get away with it as the meat's being subjected to a total time next to smoke less than say a low and slow smoke.

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This being said - ya know, that looks like a real lot of IFS that don't even enter in to whether or not you are good at the art of fire management or not

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But know what - FARK - what we internet gurus say - I know I could do it and probably get away with it - But then you can blindfold me and hand me a cunk of wood and I can feel and smell what it is and if I drop it can tell you what its moisture content is.

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Come to think of it - I think every stick burner in here would probably, if cornered into the situation of ONLY having green Hickory for a smoke, would be able to adapt, find some charcoal for the main heat source, find some other dry wood to supplement the green hickory, or make adjustments with foil or pans or overall total cooking time to reduce the exposure to green smoke.

YES
So yes, go buy a pellet pooper.

willkat98 said:

Dry it in the oven.


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This FARKER has a point -

I had this happen at a fair long ago. Had a helper misunderstand the orders to pack up what and what type of wood.

Solution was - we reduced the overall size of the logs (slit them more), we separated out the bark cuts from the heartwood, and spent more time drying the bark size nearly to charred black and toasted the outsides of all sides of the heartwood to drastically reduce the greenness.

BBQ turned out wonderful.

had a few box top fires at times

This does NOT fix the total problem as greenness is BOTH moisture content AND the sugars being modified from time also. But it is a good fix somewhat.

Lake Dogs said:

HATE it. That's what I'm afraid of. That, and a skunky green-wood flavor.

Luckily I have hickory chunks, plenty of them... They just get kind of expensive
burning them this way. Have plenty of seasoned oak. It may get me through...

Sorry, I'm just ticked off (that I paid for Hickory and didnt get Hickory).

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DUDE! You are from Georgia. I will say this about the South as I am from Texas, which as everyone knows, is NOT part of the south.

Stickburners from your region have for a long time reserved the BIRTHRIGHT of being able to baffle the rest of us with the capability of using green wood and producing great BBQ.

You certainly don't need any Yankee help in this regard. Sure, I would expect a Yankee would want to play it safe, but never forget, you are southern, which thereby means the mere fact you are sitting next to the smoker, you can create a force field around you meat that isolates it from bad smoke with SHEER WILL!

Always, when receiving advice, always consult the region the advice is coming from. Of course, last year I lived in Connecticut and you should see Bubba's Brisket (yum) and he is from... shutter the great lakes region, where they can't even load ore freighters right.

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Stickburners from your region have for a long time reserved the BIRTHRIGHT of being able to baffle the rest of us with the capability of using green wood and producing great BBQ.

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I resemble that remark :wink:

Having been born in Tenn and raised in NC, I grew up learning there is only one kind of BBQ (pulled pork), and everything else was not really BBQ. Of course I now know better, and will even permit brisket to hit my smoker (but only for limited times)

If you cure your green hickory if can be used - sparingly.

Oven is one option, but what i do - still to this day with even well seasoned wood - is to use a pre-burner.

This works real well with green wood, and allows you to burn off all offending gases, creosote, etc..before it ever sees the smoker.

and yes, I know people that use oak for fuel, and ONLY green hickory for flavor (it has a much more aggressive flavor profile)

GOD BLESS TEXAS ! ! ! ! When Texas does finally decide to succeed I'm definitely moving back to Katy or the Austin area. Gods country.

Hey wait a min!

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barbefunkoramaque said:

DUDE! You are from Georgia. I will say this about the South as I am from Texas, which as everyone knows, is NOT part of the south.

Stickburners from your region have for a long time reserved the BIRTHRIGHT of being able to baffle the rest of us with the capability of using green wood and producing great BBQ.

You certainly don't need any Yankee help in this regard. Sure, I would expect a Yankee would want to play it safe, wait a darm min here... but never forget, you are southern, which thereby means the mere fact you are sitting next to the smoker, you can create a force field around you meat that isolates it from bad smoke with SHEER WILL!

Always, when receiving advice, always consult the region the advice is coming from. Of course, last year I lived in Connecticut and you should see Bubba's Brisket (yum) and he is from... shutter the great lakes region, where they can't even load ore freighters right.

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Although I cannot prove it with a gc or a trophy, as my frist contest is this month, I put out some amazing q. Tha t being said i would like to make two points

1) I am a "Yankee" (although a redsox fan not to be confused lol)
2) I only use green Hickory in my offsets.
3) We very rarly play it safe

Wait was that 3 points...

If you know what you are dong green hickory will put out the best q you have ever had. But it takes some work so maybe its a Yankee thing

Oak is a good smoking wood, so worries there. You sure you don't have hickory? There are 5 species of it, and the bark looks different on all of them. Shag bark is the easiest to identify. Most folks here spot that, but tend to call other hickory stick wood oak, when it is not.

Never have tried using green wood. Mine's always seasoned.

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Lookee here: http://forestry.about.com/cs/treeid/a/the_hickory.htm

So where's that leave us born and raised Southern Californian's in all this here talk?

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Lake Dogs said:

Well, lets see...

There's southern. We're just broken and wrong. Mutants really.
Probably started with Georgia and being initially a penal colony...

There's northern. I understand they're broken and wrong too.
Different wrong, normally with a superiority complex.

Western. Texas is sorta southern and western, all in one. They're
surely big enough. However, they can suffer from a similar superiority
complex as yankees...

Mid-western. Q central station, even though BBQ probably originated
on sugar cane plantations in SC or GA... They're not broken like
the others, but they make up for it with extra wrong.

Then, there's Pacific. You'd probably be Pacific. You're not wrong
like the rest of us, but you make up for it with completely broken.
BTW, THE original L.A. is around Mobile, Alabama. LA = Lower Alabama.
It's LA south, without the smog, traffic, and silicone boobs...

We're all mutants. Mutts really. No one better than the other.
Unless you're from Oregon (so I hear). Apparently they KNOW they're
better'n the rest of us mutts.

Meanwhile I've found a shagbark hickory source (already seasoned)
a few miles south of here. I'll pick some up tomorrow. I also scoped out
the trees on the lot next door. There are 15+- good sized shagbark
hickorys right where they'll clear it for a house. Looks like *someone*
needs to relieve them of a tree or two. Can't imagine who that might
be......... 2 chain saws; think I can handle it.

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Brother, you handled that well. God bless you and your BBQ

ALL Yankees that can BBQ are simply southerners or Texans in which their roots have not been yet divulged.

Popdaddy of course keeps the list in his vault.