Mouldy wood - Salvageable?


 
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TristanH

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A buddy of mine gave me a bag of apple wood he cut up in hockey-puck sized chunks.

Like an idiot I tied the bag airtight and forgot about it for months.

ANyways, the wood got speckled with mold (not big chunks or anything) and when I open the bag it smelled like mold.

Can I dry it out and use it later? Do I need to take the mold off somehow?

Thanks all.
Tristan
 
A tip from Smokinlicious who I buy my wood from.
You can sanitize the wood by diluting in 1.5 ounces of bleach to 3 gals of H20. Submerge for two minutes, pour off the mix and let the wood air dry.
Keep you're wood in an open type of container(Laundry basket-milk crate)
HTH

Tim
 
let it burn down to coal in the chimney, shake it good and use it.


(but if you get really really sick don't blame me, I don't really know if that's OK or not, just what I would do)
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Since mold is mostly on the surface, you just might try to char it to burn off the mold before you use it. It wouldn't take much time in a fire, just long enough to char the surface.
 
If it has a heavy odor it might come through in the meat. Wood is cheap enough to buy at yer local lowes or whatever.
 
Cool, thanks guys.

I don't think the odor is that strong, it was only on initially opening the bag.

I'll just dry it out a bit more and then burn it a bit before I put food on.

Thanks all
Tristan
 
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