need to chop up the smoking wood?

[John Noble]

I am going to start using my woodpile of pure, dry, maple for smoking in my wsm.

It is already split into fireplace size pieces, so I plan to just split it down some more. I would not have fist sized chunks, but would have lengths about a fist sized wide, but about a foot long, just narrow fireplace pieces.

Any comments on this? Seems unnecessary to take a cutter and make them exactly like fist sized pieces.

I plan to just bury three of the long thin splits, in the charcoal, and that should be fine.

 

[Brad Benski]

Depending on how much smoke flavor you like you might be able to get away with 1 of your "sticks".

Normally I smoke with 3-5 fist size chunks.

 

[Barret]

John - I had a lot of apple wood pieces the same size as your maple, but at the time I figured they would be better off being fist-sized pieces, so I cut them up with my circular saw. Now that I'm doing more smoking on my OTS, I have come to realize that I probably could have got by with leaving them whole, as I also use between 3 and 5 chunks per smoke.

However, now that I have a box full of fist-sized chunks, I can also burn them for direct grilling over live fire.

I'm sure you're good with the sizes you have; you'll just only need to use one at a time.

Just my 2¢...

Barret

 

[John Ford]

John if you have a chainsaw just cut some 2-3 in disks from 1 of the logs.

 

[Dave Russell]

It's a bit of work, but you can use a miter saw to cut fireplace splits to smoking length. The box holds them in place nicely, a lot safer than using a skilsaw or chainsaw, since they're relatively short.

 

[Bill Harvey]

Wood is wood ... LOL... as long as it fits in the smoker your good to go...