wildblue
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On one of the facebook groups, I saw someone say that all wood just tastes the same to them. As you can see, I disagree
Hickory is starting to replace pecan as my 'go to' wood, but they all have their place I think. Alder for seafood, mesquite for my steaks, pork I tend to alternate between pecan and hickory - I really like putting hickory in the hopper and using a fruit wood in the smoke tube for butts, ribs usually just get hickory. I know a lot of people swear by oak for everything, I just don't get a lot of use out of it. Poultry is usually apple or cherry. I do mix it up though, depending on what I'm going for.
How about you? Do you have a favorite? Can you tell the difference? Do you have a tube that you give it a little extra with sometimes?
Side note - at the risk of being out of line (Kind of good admin Mike, feel free to edit if I am) but I'll plug bbqpelletsonline.com here. Seth was super helpful and me and a couple guys ended up buying a pallet of pellets from him. Got them at like $7.30 a bag - which is better than the Rual King price and we got to pick what we wanted. 40# bags would have been even cheaper, but the other guys wanted all 20# He usually posts to the FB groups with group buy info - I can probably find his latest if anyone is interested. Or maybe even send him an invite to here?
Hickory is starting to replace pecan as my 'go to' wood, but they all have their place I think. Alder for seafood, mesquite for my steaks, pork I tend to alternate between pecan and hickory - I really like putting hickory in the hopper and using a fruit wood in the smoke tube for butts, ribs usually just get hickory. I know a lot of people swear by oak for everything, I just don't get a lot of use out of it. Poultry is usually apple or cherry. I do mix it up though, depending on what I'm going for.
How about you? Do you have a favorite? Can you tell the difference? Do you have a tube that you give it a little extra with sometimes?
Side note - at the risk of being out of line (Kind of good admin Mike, feel free to edit if I am) but I'll plug bbqpelletsonline.com here. Seth was super helpful and me and a couple guys ended up buying a pallet of pellets from him. Got them at like $7.30 a bag - which is better than the Rual King price and we got to pick what we wanted. 40# bags would have been even cheaper, but the other guys wanted all 20# He usually posts to the FB groups with group buy info - I can probably find his latest if anyone is interested. Or maybe even send him an invite to here?