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03-17-2014, 10:00 AM | #1 |
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Join Date: 07-19-13
Location: Chesapeake, VA
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BBQ regions and their wood
For me when I think of the different regions of American BBQ I think of traditional stick burners and what they use most of. What would you consider is the most traditional wood?
Carolinas. Pecan/Oak Texas. Mesquite/Oak Tennessee. Fruit woods Mississippi. Hickory St. Louis. Oak Slow rainy day at work.
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03-17-2014, 10:02 AM | #2 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 01-03-14
Location: Detroit michigan
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I like the idea of native wood. In Michigan that means apple and cherry.
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03-17-2014, 10:11 AM | #3 |
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Join Date: 05-09-07
Location: God's Country Ossipee-Osceola NC
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Traditionally in North Carolina we use hickory/oak...
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03-17-2014, 10:18 AM | #4 |
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Join Date: 12-16-07
Location: Marion,NC
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As much as I like pecan, growing up my whole life in North Carolina the only woods I saw used around here were hickory and oak.
Pecan, apple, peach, mesquite and most any others were considered exotic or a "secret" to somebody's favorite bbq until the last 5-10 years when BBQ has become more of a subject on TV. Dangit N8man! You beat me to it! I got distracted during my post. |
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03-17-2014, 10:18 AM | #5 |
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Location: Anaheim, CA
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Does that mean I need to use pine and eucalyptus? Yummmmmm
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03-17-2014, 10:20 AM | #6 |
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Same for the southern carolina.
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03-17-2014, 10:31 AM | #7 |
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California would be Oak. Both Canyon Live Oak(White) and Coastal Live Oak(Red)
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03-17-2014, 10:35 AM | #8 |
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Join Date: 07-23-13
Location: Manchester, UK
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Just to throw in something a little further afield - Germany's traditional smoking wood is Douglas fir and / or beech from the Black Forest region, and Poland's wood of choice is/was juniper. Across Europe in general alder is used a lot for smoking
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03-17-2014, 10:38 AM | #9 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
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Location: Detroit michigan
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lots of softwood. Didn't think those were the best for smoking.
Do ya'll even have any trees left on that island?
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03-17-2014, 10:42 AM | #10 |
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Interesting topic...not sure we'd have anything traditional in Illinois... Lots of maple trees around...maybe oak or elm?
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03-17-2014, 10:47 AM | #11 |
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Agreed. I burn through a LOT of hickory. There are also a lot of apple orchards in my neck of the NC woods, so I burn some of that with pork whenever I can get my hands on a load.
I do like a little mesquite when I smoke chicken though...
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03-17-2014, 10:51 AM | #12 |
somebody shut me the fark up.
Join Date: 01-03-14
Location: Detroit michigan
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Your official state tree is the white oak
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03-17-2014, 11:07 AM | #13 |
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Just a bit north of NC I burn a lot of hickory and oak. Don't find much Pecan around here. Lota of oak.
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03-17-2014, 11:15 AM | #14 |
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Location: Lincoln, NE
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Pin and bur oak is common as well as maple for cooking woods. Some of our most common hards woods aren't ones to cook with, locust and cottonwood. There is also mulberry and apple for common fruitwood trees.
A very small part of the state has shagbark hickory too.
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03-17-2014, 11:24 AM | #15 |
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Palm Trees do not work well.
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