sweet gum tree ?

[butt head]

anybody ever use this to smoke with? one of my neibors cut down this tree and asked if i want it. i only found one refrence to it for bbq and it said it was ok to use but nothing about the flaver.

 

[VitaminQ]

I can't imagine that those piece of crap trees are good for anything at all, but I guess you never know. I've never used 'em. Can't say as I blame your neighbor for cutting it down.

 

[Meat Burner]

I can't imagine that those piece of crap trees are good for anything at all, but I guess you never know. I've never used 'em. Can't say as I blame your neighbor for cutting it down.

What he said.:evil:

 

[Fredbird]

What he said.:evil:

Ditto!

 

[BBQchef33]

Its a fruit bearing hardwood, so most likely ok to use. No clue what the flavor is.. Heat some up on top of the firebox and give it a whiff. See how it smells. If it smells like sugar or fruit or nuts, its good.

If it smells like your underwear, throw it out and then check your a$$ for splinters. :mrgreen:

The sweetgum is also known as redgum, star-leaved gum, alligator-wood, and gumtree. It occurs on moist to wet, acidic soils and is commonly found in swamps and near ponds and streams.

Sweetgum is second in production only to oaks among hardwoods. The wood is used as flooring, furniture, veneers, home interiors, and other lumber applications. The wood is also used as paper pulp and to make baskets. Pioneers once peeled the bark and scraped the resin-like solid to produce chewing gum.
Sweetgum is a favorite landscape tree due to its

Twigs and leavesbeautiful, glossy leaves, brilliant fall color, and because it makes a good shade tree. Sweetgum is easily recognized by its star-shaped leaves and its woody, spiny, ball-like fruit.

 

[Puppyboy]

I have used sweet gum before and thought it worked out just fine. It had a sweet smell to it and would use it again.

 

[ipls3355]

http://savemattoon.blogspot.com/2006/08/tree-ordinance-revisited.html

According to the American Chemical society, the seeds found in those gumballs could be used to fight the bird flu. They contain significant amounts of shikimic acid, the starting material used to produce the main antiviral agent in a much-heralded drug for fighting bird flu. Shikimic acid is used to make a generic drug called oseltamivir - best known commercially as Tamiflu®

Don't know what its like to smoke with though

 

[tumpedover]

I can't imagine that those piece of crap trees are good for anything at all, but I guess you never know. I've never used 'em. Can't say as I blame your neighbor for cutting it down.

I'm with you here I always thought they were trash trees......The timber companies in east Texas always cut 'em down for pulp....

 

[Meat Burner]

If it smells like your underwear, throw it out and then check your a$$ for splinters.



BBQChef33...That's funny!:lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[The_Kapn]

"Sweet Gum" is a trash tree here.
I have cut down a bunch from my place and split several for firewood.
The grain has a "twist" and makes them a candidate for power splitting only.
The splits dry out to "nothing" in a few months. No BTUs left. I wind up putting them in the burn pit next door after a season.

Little to offer for BBQ wood, IMHO.

TIM

 

[CajunSmoker]

Sweet gum is the preferred wood to grow Shiitake Mushrooms on. I had a little company doing it for a while. I've thrown a lot on the fireplace, but don't think I ever cooked with it before.

 

[butt head]

thanks guys. told my neigbor no thanks today. pooba i didn't need that mental image:shock: :icon_smil :eusa_clap

 

[BBQchef33]

If it smells like your underwear, throw it out and then check your a$$ for splinters.



BBQChef33...That's funny!:lol: :lol: :lol:

<loop Elvis Voice>

thankya.. thankya very much..

<end Elvis Voice>

 

[Brauma]

Cool, I'd never thought of smoking them. I cut those farkin gums down often because I hate em. Damn a gum ball. I had been cutting them up into 4' lengths and stack em for the firepit.

You cannot split a gum by hand unless you're Paul Bunyan. Farkin twisted grain. Time for a log splitter.