Silver Maple

[bruno]

Can silver maple be used as a smoking wood? I have seen maple, but never silver maple.

I lost a good sized branch off the tree in my front yard and it should supply me with enough for several cooks.

Thanks.

 

[FatDad]

That's something to think about...hmmm
It is a hard wood.
Makes me curious.

 

[Hawgsnheifers]

Can silver maple be used as a smoking wood? I have seen maple, but never silver maple.

I lost a good sized branch off the tree in my front yard and it should supply me with enough for several cooks.

Thanks.

leave it to you Bruno. That wood is probably some you cut of one of your neighbors trees in the middle of the night so you wouldn't have to buy fuel for your cooks. You are one cheap farker...

 

[BrooklynQ]

It'll work just fine.

 

[HoDeDo]

I have used sugar maple - silver maple, hmmmm....

 

[kcquer]

I woodworking terms, maples fall into two catagories, hard and soft. The maple you would get from a reputable smokin' wood retailer will be hard maple.
Silver maple is a soft maple. It won't give you the same flavor profile that sugar maple does, but it will work for smoking.

 

[BBQchef33]

KC..... is it soft wood though? or is a "soft" maple still a Hardwood??? .. Does it have resins(like pine or cedar)?

 

[BrooklynQ]

I've used silver maple in the past. It was very mild. Not sweet like sugar maple, but it was fine.

 

[BBQchef33]

i used sugar maple alot.... and a few other maples.,..dunno what it was though. it had those sticky things ya put on your nose.

 

[kcquer]

KC..... is it soft wood though? or is a "soft" maple still a Hardwood??? .. Does it have resins(like pine or cedar)?

No resins, it'll burn clean.