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Post by Valerie on Aug 15, 2012 21:53:55 GMT -5
... what the Jack Daniels people do with their oak barrels that are no longer serviceable for aging whiskey? They chop 'em up and bag the chips and sell them at ACE hardware for smoking meat. Can you imagine how good that meat would be? It makes me wish for some cool weather, to sit outside and smoke a bunch of chicken or a turkey or anything!
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Post by Sheila on Aug 15, 2012 22:25:20 GMT -5
oh wow humm have to head into town tomorrow gonna have to just a little visit to ACE hardware.
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Aug 15, 2012 23:12:06 GMT -5
something else great for smoking is hickory nuts - i keep a bucketful drying out all year long and soak a half dozen or so a day before i'm going to do any smoking -
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Post by Sheila on Aug 15, 2012 23:54:06 GMT -5
Where can you get hickory nuts,meaning do they sell them in stores? Checked at ACE it is over 50 bucks for a pack of 6 2 lb bags think i'll stick to alder and cherry wood.
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Post by mysisteringa on Aug 16, 2012 4:09:14 GMT -5
something else great for smoking is hickory nuts - i keep a bucketful drying out all year long and soak a half dozen or so a day before i'm going to do any smoking - Do you use the whole nut, just the hulls or just the inside? We have a million hickory trees here. They grow like weeds. I'd love to try this if I can collect some before the squirrels get them all.
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Aug 16, 2012 7:31:10 GMT -5
we use the hulled nut - and i have no idea where you'd buy them - i suppose one way to source them is to stalk a squirrel -
in any case, for smoke flavor you just want them smoldering at the outside of a coal bed and not where they can burn fiercely -
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Post by Valerie on Aug 16, 2012 9:38:50 GMT -5
I bet those would be good. We don't have those trees here.
I wonder what magnolia smoke would taste like?
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Post by Sheila on Aug 16, 2012 10:59:13 GMT -5
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Aug 16, 2012 11:15:30 GMT -5
I bet those would be good. We don't have those trees here. I wonder what magnolia smoke would taste like? i'd betcha a nickel that pecans would work about as well as hickory nuts -
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Post by Valerie on Aug 16, 2012 20:22:02 GMT -5
I never thought about pecans. The wood has a really nice smell when it burns.
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Post by BigM on Aug 17, 2012 7:02:26 GMT -5
Pecans are good. So is wood from orange trees!
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Post by Valerie on Aug 17, 2012 9:12:21 GMT -5
So would you use just the pecan shells? That's a good use for them.
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Post by joanfromzone6 on Aug 17, 2012 14:22:19 GMT -5
So would you use just the pecan shells? That's a good use for them. don't know - i guess you go with what you've got - if pecans are like walnuts you don't really know there are no weevils until you open the nut - a bucket of weevil nuts will smoke as well as prime nuts, i'd guess - but with the hickory nuts you need so few to keep adequate smoke for several hours than using good eating nuts is not a waste - if you're gonna go with pecans i guess you just need to speriment -
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Post by Valerie on Aug 17, 2012 15:40:42 GMT -5
I never would have thought to use the whole nut. That's a great idea. Already moist, so more smoke, less fire. A lot of our pecans are super bitter. They look nice and normal and then you take a bite and ughhh! They'd be good for smoking, though.
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Post by debi on Oct 13, 2012 16:50:35 GMT -5
I bet those would be good. We don't have those trees here. I wonder what magnolia smoke would taste like? i'd betcha a nickel that pecans would work about as well as hickory nuts - Joan they ddo work as well, better really.
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