Recent content by mschulke
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smoking wood in Montana?
We just moved from Phoenix, AZ to Billings, MT, and I'm wanting to find a good source for smoking woods. Back in AZ, I could get mesquite and oak pretty easy, either with my wallet or my chainsaw. I'm not familiar with the area around Billings, and I figure most of the woods in the national...- mschulke
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- Forum: Woods for Smoking
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favorite types of wood
I've smoked with lots of different types of chips in my Weber kettle before I got my pit. I've used apple, cherry, maple, oak, mesquite, pecan, alder, hickory, grapevine, and even Jack Daniels oak chips. The apple and cherry are best on poultry, and its a toss up between pecan and mesquite for...- mschulke
- Post #48
- Forum: General Discussion
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Bitter flavors
Well, I did my experiment: 2 baby back racks, cut in half. The first was smoked with charcoal as a control. The next 1/2 rack was smoked with oak. The third was the wild pecan, or pig-nut, and the 4th was apple chunks with a little grape vine. My wife and I both tasted a couple ribs from...- mschulke
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Bitter flavors
Thanks for the thoughts, everyone. I'll definitely work on keeping the smoke down. As for the seasoning of the wood, what I've used I collected in early June, split it, and have kept under the central Arizona sun since then. I suppose it might not have seasoned long enough, but I figured the...- mschulke
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Bitter flavors
The last two times I've smoked in my pit, I have noticed a bitter flavor in the skin and membranes (last two meats were a whole turkey flattened, and a rack of ribs). Both times I used wild pecan with a few smallish pieces of wild grape, both obtained by me in south Texas. So far, I'm finding...- mschulke
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First post... First butt
Just joined the forum, and wanted to say hi to ya'll. I recently got a horizontal pipe smoker, and did my first all-day cook with it. It was a pork butt, another first. Never done one of those before. After this weekend, I'm gonna have my wife keep a close eye on any sales for butt, because...
