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Q-talk *ON TOPIC ONLY* QUALITY ON TOPIC discussion of Backyard BBQ, grilling, equipment and outdoor cookin' . ** Other cooking techniques are welcomed for when your cookin' in the kitchen. Post your hints, tips, tricks & techniques, success, failures, but stay on topic and watch for that hijacking. |
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04-11-2014, 08:06 AM | #1 |
On the road to being a farker
Join Date: 08-19-09
Location: Monte Vista, Colorado
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Wood or Charcoal
I have just a quick question. Anyone with a Lang Patio or simular smoker? Do you use all wood or a combination of charcoal and wood. Where I live fruitwood or hardwood is hard to come by.
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04-11-2014, 08:36 AM | #2 |
Take a breath!
Join Date: 07-12-12
Location: TX
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Must to the chagrin of traditional stick burners, I use a combo of both. I use a loaded charcoal basket(18 to 20 lbs) with 4" to 6" chucks of wood (minion method) to get long burn times with good results and less tending (insulated firebox). I use a traditional stick burner not a reverse flow.
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04-11-2014, 09:53 AM | #3 |
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Thanks, Purchasing only wood would be very expensive. I do have some fruitwood but would like to use it to suppliment the charcoal.
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04-11-2014, 10:13 AM | #4 | |
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Join Date: 05-30-13
Location: Kyle, TX
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Wood burns hotter than charcoal and as long as it combusts it will give you plenty of heat as well as a thin blue smoke. So start your fire with a chimney of lit lump and a couple of splits, when the pit gets up to temp add a split every 45 min. or so to maintain it. From this point forward you are burning ONLY wood, your intake damper is anywhere from 1/3 to 3/4 open (depending on desired temp) and your exhaust is wide open. You'll find that an all wood fire is MUCH easier to control in an offset than charcoal as the cooker is wide open, drafting well, delivering good heat and clean smoke to your food. You shouldn't put gasoline in a diesel engine and likewise you shouldn't put charcoal in a stick burner!
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04-11-2014, 10:28 AM | #5 |
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Join Date: 09-09-13
Location: South FL
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I run wood in my reverse flow smoker. It isn't easy to come by in South Florida but there are a few companies that do sell firewood.
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04-11-2014, 10:37 AM | #6 |
Take a breath!
Join Date: 07-12-12
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I appreciate the difference in opinion Oldbill. I also understand the tradition of using a stick burner as a stick burner, but I can get nice clean blue from the method described above. As well as a nice smoke ring! And he was asking about alternate methods
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04-11-2014, 10:38 AM | #7 |
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Location: Jasper, Alabama
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I always start with a good bed of charcoal and switch over to woodsplits.
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04-11-2014, 10:45 AM | #8 |
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Join Date: 01-19-13
Location: melbourne fl, adirondack native
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Been cooking on the lang for a year now and never had anything but hickory and pecan in it.
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04-11-2014, 11:26 AM | #9 | |
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It's a free country and everyone is entitled to use what ever method that they wish but stick burners in general need wood and maybe not all but most of the folks who are experimenting with the different fuels and combinations of them will eventually go back to wood as the primary fuel source.
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04-11-2014, 11:53 AM | #10 | |
Take a breath!
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04-11-2014, 12:22 PM | #11 | |
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We're all pretty lucky to be living in the computer age (especially the new comers), heck when I started cooking there was no such thing as a "world wide web" let alone a forum to learn from! LOL! Thanks for your posts!
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04-11-2014, 12:42 PM | #12 |
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Join Date: 06-01-11
Location: Saint Louis MO
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http://www.fruitawoodchunks.com/
Not cheap, but they do have some good wood. Who knows, they may be close to you. |
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04-11-2014, 01:07 PM | #13 |
Take a breath!
Join Date: 07-12-12
Location: TX
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No, thank you Oldbill for being willing to come into the computer age and share your knowledge.
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04-11-2014, 04:03 PM | #14 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 07-10-05
Location: NORTH BERGEN, NEW JERSEY
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Sometimes we run all splits and sometimes we run charcoal with wood.
For those long cooks when we want to get some sleep we run a few hours with splits and which we burn in our charcoal basket. Later, we shift to charcoal so we can get some sleep. We bought our basket from Jeff at XXL Baskets. here is the link. http://yokeup.net/XXLBaskets.html We find that when the meat is wrapped in foil it doesn't make a difference if we burn all wood or charcoal.
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04-11-2014, 04:29 PM | #15 |
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I sell firewood to almost every restaurant in South Florida but mostly only oak and Aussie pine is all we can get price wise this far south.
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