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Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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05/31/14 02:44 AM
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Taking down a 50 ft. Cottonwood tree in my yard an since its been dead for a year or so, figured I would burn some sticks. Catches fast and gives a lighter flavor than oak. Coals up well but coals dont last as long. With plenty to burn, may do a brisket or pork butt overnight.
Anyone else ever cook with an "alternative" wood?
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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05/31/14 03:09 AM
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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05/31/14 03:23 AM
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It can work if you're running low on a more flavorful wood but does a pretty poor job on its own. You'll have a long/busy night if you plan to cook overnight with it. Different strokes for different folks, you may enjoy the heck out of it! I'll try darn near anything once.
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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05/31/14 03:26 AM
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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05/31/14 03:26 AM
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You oughta try some Bois d'Arc wood. That smells great burning.
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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05/31/14 01:53 PM
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No coals means hard to maintain temp. Better grilling wood that smoking wood. Smoke with any wood that makes a nut or berry. Even Hackberry.
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05/31/14 02:18 PM
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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06/02/14 11:20 PM
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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06/02/14 11:27 PM
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I'm sure you will be fine but I prefer cedar.
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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I usually use old bridge timbers or utility poles. This is definitely an upgrade. The smell of the creosote burns my eyes.
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06/03/14 12:10 AM
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When I don't have any mesquite, my alternative wood is pecan or oak. You're not gonna want to smoke with cottonwood. As mentioned above, any wood that produces a nut or fruit...and a pinecone is not a nut!
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06/03/14 01:27 PM
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I usually use old bridge timbers or utility poles. This is definitely an upgrade. The smell of the creosote burns my eyes. What don't kill you will make you stronger!
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06/03/14 07:29 PM
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You oughta try some Bois d'Arc wood. That smells great burning. While you are at is you can make some horse apple jelly to go with it ~
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Re: Cooking over...gasp...Cottonwood!
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06/03/14 07:37 PM
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When I don't have any mesquite, my alternative wood is pecan or oak. You're not gonna want to smoke with cottonwood. As mentioned above, any wood that produces a nut or fruit...and a pinecone is not a nut! So where do pine nuts come from?
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06/03/14 07:46 PM
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I wouldn't do it.
Living in south texas, I do almost all of my cooking with mesquite. Oak is good but a lot harder to split and I don't have near as much of it. Pecan works great and my grandmother keeps me prett supplied with that and I have used elm quite a bit too and never had a complaint.
To whoever said hackberry above must have a secret... I struggle to get hackberry to do anything but smolder even when just burning brush.
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06/03/14 07:47 PM
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Pine nuts come from East Texas of course!
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