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Babbling Farker
Just out of curiosity, what causes some pieces of apple wood to smell really really appley and amazing and other pieces to smell more like a campfire smoke even though they are from the same tree?
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So moisture is making it more campfire style than fruity? I know that the wood has been in a locker that is dry, but the locker is outside so humidity is a big factor, specialy during our rainy season..I'm going to go out on a limb here :biggrin: I'll go with the moisture in the wood. But I'm only guessing.
no the wood has no fungus of any sort. One piece did have a section where it looked like a tunnel was created then filled with sawdust.. Im assuming it was from termites. So i threw that piece out.I've got some cherry wood that has lichens all over it, but havent used yet. Notice any on your wood?
Looks to me like you have two different parts of the tree, that means the one on the left looks like heart wood and the one on the left has sap wood in it. Totally different structures in them. There are differences in the chemical makeup of the wood that would affect flavor, such as sap, lignin and and cellulose.
If you look at is from a construction point of view, heartwood is denser and heavier, it has more materials but less sap. The outer layer is sapwood, it has more sap, but, less of the material that makes up wood. There is probably an effect in the smoking of the wood that would affect the nature and amount of total suspended solids in the smoke.
Just out of curiosity, what causes some pieces of apple wood to smell really really appley and amazing and other pieces to smell more like a campfire smoke even though they are from the same tree?
Thanx