Ron Hunter
TVWBB Member
Is it possible that smoke wood can be too dry? I've noticed that I have less smoke flavor than ever before. This weekend, I smoked 4 butts - 8-9 lbs. Plus two racks of spares.
I used the minion method for the butts, when they were thru I put a full chimney of lit coals back in the WSM and added more smoke wood. All were moist and tender - but for all practical purposes - no wood flavor! For the butts I used a mixture of cherry & Hickory (2/3 - 1/3) about 6 or more fists. For the spares about 5 fists of only cherry. All the wood was placed dry - no water added.
My cherry is at least 3 years oldand kept in my wood shop. The hickory was purchased about 6 months ago.
Where's the smoke flavor gone? I can only imagine the wood is too dry. Which means I need to discard the cherry or start soaking it before use.
What do ya'll think the problem is?
I used the minion method for the butts, when they were thru I put a full chimney of lit coals back in the WSM and added more smoke wood. All were moist and tender - but for all practical purposes - no wood flavor! For the butts I used a mixture of cherry & Hickory (2/3 - 1/3) about 6 or more fists. For the spares about 5 fists of only cherry. All the wood was placed dry - no water added.
My cherry is at least 3 years oldand kept in my wood shop. The hickory was purchased about 6 months ago.
Where's the smoke flavor gone? I can only imagine the wood is too dry. Which means I need to discard the cherry or start soaking it before use.
What do ya'll think the problem is?