Thanks in advance and I realize this may be a dumb question. I just got some new splits of white oak. The wood guy said the whole logs have been sitting out for over two years, but he just split them down to splits yesterday (they’re very heavy/wet). You can see several of the ends are a dark black color (I faced all the dark black ones forward). It’s only on one end of those splits, so I’m assuming it was the end of the logs that was exposed to the weather. These still have a year or so to season. When I use it in the smoker is that black color mold or something I should be worried about and cut the ends off of those pieces?
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