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Maple Wood?

clifkincaid
clifkincaid Posts: 572
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What maple tree wood is usually used for smoking? 
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  • YukonRon
    YukonRon Posts: 17,261
    Sugar maple
    "Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber

    XL and MM
    Louisville, Kentucky
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    But any will do.

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • clifkincaid
    clifkincaid Posts: 572
    So looking at Big leaf maple (western maple) it can also be tapped to make syrup. Looks as though it's not as sweet 2-4% sugar rest being water. Couldn't really find a definitive answer if this wood smoke was sweet (er) or pungent. Or I should just burn it in the fire pit.
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  • stlcharcoal
    stlcharcoal Posts: 4,759
    Love maple......I use is on pork butts with some apple.  AKA: "Mapple"
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  • Gamecockeggman
    Gamecockeggman Posts: 1,339
    Carolina Q said:
    But any will do.
    So let me get this straight.  Any maple tree can be used for smoke wood?  I aske because I have a maple tree in my backyard that has to come down.  I live in South Carolina and never gave it a thought that it could be used for smoke wood?
    Go Gamecocks!!!
    1 XL, 1 MM
    Smoking in Aiken South Carolina
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  • gmac
    gmac Posts: 1,814
    edited January 2017
    It's mild, I have used a bunch of it. I quite like it. I don't think the sap sugar content matters at all unless you cut it in the spring when it's running but I don't know for sure
    I used a few green branch trimmings - good, and dried maple -good. Like dried better though.

    Definitely use the Big Leaf in the smoker. I bet it's good. And a whole tree is a lifetime of wood for a BGE.  
    Mt Elgin Ontario - just a Large.
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  • Carolina Q
    Carolina Q Posts: 14,831
    Gamecockeggman said:
    Carolina Q said:
    But any will do.
    So let me get this straight.  Any maple tree can be used for smoke wood?  I aske because I have a maple tree in my backyard that has to come down.
    Correct. Sounds like you just hit the Mother Lode!

    I hate it when I go to the kitchen for food and all I find are ingredients!                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

    Michael 
    Central Connecticut 

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  • Gamecockeggman
    Gamecockeggman Posts: 1,339
    Carolina Q said:
    Gamecockeggman said:
    Carolina Q said:
    But any will do.
    So let me get this straight.  Any maple tree can be used for smoke wood?  I aske because I have a maple tree in my backyard that has to come down.
    Correct. Sounds like you just hit the Mother Lode!
    Sounds like it.   =) Thanks 
    Go Gamecocks!!!
    1 XL, 1 MM
    Smoking in Aiken South Carolina
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  • onedbguru
    onedbguru Posts: 1,648
    Gamecockeggman said:
    Carolina Q said:
    But any will do.
    So let me get this straight.  Any maple tree can be used for smoke wood?  I aske because I have a maple tree in my backyard that has to come down.  I live in South Carolina and never gave it a thought that it could be used for smoke wood?
    So, where should we come to pick some up?
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  • clifkincaid
    clifkincaid Posts: 572
    Got back to this to late...just cut a huge big leaf down. It was all hauled to the yard waste.
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