HB-BBQ
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I'll second that! I like red oak for grilling or smoking. It's cheap and plentiful here but most importantly it burns slow and hot and produces a great coal base for long cooks.
Red oak
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BobM
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I cut up 4 pieces of red oak into chunks today, enough to fill an old 5 gallon joint compound pail.
Bucket 'o wood.
Bucket 'o wood.
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caseydog
somebody shut me the fark up.
Most red oaks planted in my area over the last twenty or so years are Shumard Red Oak. The other very common oak is Live Oak, which is native to North Texas.
I have some large branches aging in my backyard of both Shumard Red Oak and Live Oak -- branches pruned in my neighborhood.
By early summer, I should have enough of both seasoned to do a side-by-side comparison.
CD
chriscw81
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I cut up 4 pieces of red oak into chunks today, enough to fill an old 5 gallon joint compound pail.
Bucket 'o wood.
ive got a bucket like this of red oak and white oak in my garage just waiting to meet fire. i got it from an inlaw that cleared some land in NC not long ago.
abangs
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abangs
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Full Draw BBQ
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I don't want to hijack a thread with a question, but this seems like the perfect place with guys weighing in here.
What is the difference between "Post Oak" and "Oak". If the place I get most of my wood has "Oak"......is that probably "white oak"?
Thanks!
What is the difference between "Post Oak" and "Oak". If the place I get most of my wood has "Oak"......is that probably "white oak"?
Thanks!
HeSmellsLikeSmoke
somebody shut me the fark up.
Post oak, Quercus stellatais, is in the white oak group. White oak is Quercus alba. Post oak grows in central Texas and is used by many of the BBQ Meccas there and is especially good with beef.
G
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Post oak (Quercus stellata) actually grows throughout the eastern US, Texas is the western limit of its range. It is really common here in NC, I have several post oak trees on my property.
Beerbecue
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Almost correct. The common local name is Coastal live oak or just live oak. An evergreen btw.
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SmokinJohn
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It is terrible. You should send it all (and the meat you were going to use) to me....
Seriously, I have used it (sparingly) with my beef ribs and tri-tip. It is better suited to brisket, IMHO.
Seriously, I have used it (sparingly) with my beef ribs and tri-tip. It is better suited to brisket, IMHO.
Ryan Chester
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I use red oak in my restaurant (Smoqued BBQ) amongst other woods. Its goooood.
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Red oak is one of my favorites. The nasty smell when u split it is the tanins in the wood(smells like pee or puke). that goes away as it seasons.
razrbakcrzy
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Yes, along with white oak, pecan, hickory, chickory, mesquite, peach, apple & pear... I like the hickory, and pecan the best. I'm not much for mesquite... JMHO
dkryzer
Knows what a fatty is.
Up here in the great white north (MN) red and white oak are plentiful. I've had great luck using both in my smokers.
Swamp Donkeyz BBQ
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We use it all the time in East Texas.
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