What is your favorite smoking wood?

Beerbecue · Mar 24, 2011

After years of buying bags of Mesquite, Pecan, Cherry, and Hickory, I found that I already had the best smoking wood ever right in my own back yard. Manzanita! Manzanita is a large shrub that grows wild here in my western Sierra foothills It has a beautiful smooth red bark. Very dense and hard wood, the branches are 1 to 3" inches in diameter so they are easy to cut into chunks. The smoke flavor is not as heavy as Mesquite and goes well with all meats that I have tried it on.
What is your favorite wood? and does it grow naturally in your neck of the woods?

jestridge · Mar 24, 2011

I have around 40 acre of hardwood forest . hickory , different oaks , maples but for me hickory

NorthwestBBQ · Mar 24, 2011

Apple.

deguerre · Mar 24, 2011

It depends on the meat I'm smoking and my particular mood at the time, but I can never go wrong with hickory...

caseydog · Mar 24, 2011

The wood I use most often is Pecan.

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gtr · Mar 24, 2011

I like 'em all, but hickory is definitely my go-to.

BlueHowler · Mar 24, 2011

I love apple and sugar maple but I tried smoking a chicken over pecan shells and it was fabulous.

If I had to pick just one I'd say apple because I have a few apple trees in my yard that I can thin out plus I do like the flavor.

Ron_L · Mar 24, 2011

To quote my buddy Scott, KCQuer, "Any wood is good for smoking as long as it is cherry!"

Dallas Dan · Mar 24, 2011

I've never heard of Manzanita.

With a pecan tree in my yard, I use a lot of it. But I gear my wood choice to the meat I'm cooking.

El Ropo · Mar 24, 2011

I like a mix of Pecan, Hickory, Apple, and/or Cherry for most cooks. I use very small chunks spread throughout the basket in the UDS and the Gourmet.

Works great for me.

**Edit** if we're talking about one choice, I'd go with Pecan all day long.

thirdeye · Mar 24, 2011

If I had to only pick one..... it would be this one. Heheheee.
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Yes, that's cherry.

Hoss · Mar 24, 2011

Apple,cherry on some meats.Alder on some others.All around go to wood.Pecan.It all grows around here.EXECEPT the Alder.

Shinka · Mar 24, 2011

My go to is usually wild apple, but I enjoy black cherry as well...depending on what's being smoked.

Wampus · Mar 24, 2011

I'd have to say of all that I've tried, I like cherry and apple the best.
I have enough cherry that I actually burn a lot of it for firewood. I probably have about 8 - 40'-60' tall trees, from 8"-12" diameter to cut down in the back of the property too. I get my apple from the large apple orchard that my property literally backs up to. I know that family that owns it and they have a huge burn pile of storm damage and trimmings just on the other side of my property line.:becky:

ZILLA · Mar 24, 2011

I've become a huge fan of Black Jack oak. Post oak is my alternate. They are the best all around wood I ever used.

cbagby64 · Mar 24, 2011

We like oak for beef and pecan for everything else

Smokin' Aces · Mar 24, 2011

granny smith apple wood and pecan

Qcrazed · Mar 24, 2011

My fav is hickory But use pecan with it cuz wife does not like strong smoke. But it seems fine to me. Also got some cherry and apple.

Meat Burner · Mar 24, 2011

If we had to settle on just one, it would be pecan. We do like to use cherry, apple, and hickory.

big brother smoke · Mar 25, 2011

California coastal oak, if it was just one.

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