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How much wood for smoking butts?
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MJG
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I am ready to go with my first smoke of Boston Butts in the LBGE. The lump is loaded but I am wondering how much wood to add in. I am using chunks of both Hickory and Apple. Thanks for any input.
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Low and slow or another method? If less then 275* dome I'd say 2 chunks of each. If going higher I'd use 3 or 4 chunks of each with one chunk of each really buried in the coals.
I raise my kids, cook and golf. When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. -
I'm curious too. I used chips for my first butt and it was completely useless. I used chunks the second time, only added two chunks. I felt like it could have used more than that though."I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it."RTR
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I use 5 large chunks cooking 10lb butts.
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I use pecan chunks to produce a maximum amount of smoke during the first two, to two and a half hours. I think anything past that time does little good to add "smoke tastes" to the meat since it is basically sealed.
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EGGerAllanPoe said:I'm curious too. I used chips for my first butt and it was completely useless. I used chunks the second time, only added two chunks. I felt like it could have used more than that though.
I raise my kids, cook and golf. When work gets in the way I'm pissed, I'm pissed off 48 weeks a year.Inbetween Iowa and Colorado, not close to anything remotely entertaining outside of football season. -
I use both chips and chunks and both give me a lot of smoke. I see no difference in the final outcome when using either one.Go Hogs Go
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I like a pretty heavy smokey taste, so I go with 6-8 nice size chunks of hickory or pecan for a BB.
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I started with four fist-sized apple chunks but found that they burned up in about an hour. So, I added four more to get me through the first few hours (turbo method)
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I am doing a 10 pounder starting tomorrow night. Did not have any apple chunks, but did have apple chips, I am using about 4 fist fulls.Large, small, and a mini
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