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Sawdust for smoking?

Suck Creek Wings
Suck Creek Wings Posts: 112
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
Is this a common practice? I read somewhere over the holiday about someone using it with good results.

Anyone have experience with it?
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  • Bacchus
    Bacchus Posts: 6,019
    I saw an Alton Brown show recently where he did that. Of course his smoker also was made from a cardboard box. I would be VERY careful since you don't know for sure that the dust was created from untreated lumber......
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  • Grandpas Grub
    Grandpas Grub Posts: 14,226
    Saw something Alton was doing also.

    He used a pie tin over an electric element.

    In the egg I wouldn't use sawdust in an egg with possibly one exception.

    Sawdust can be extremely flamable and or it can snuff out the lump if one uses a lot.

    If the sawdust were to be put into foil 'tubs' with some holes in the top of the foil tubs. That may allow for some controlled smoke to be released.

    my 2¢

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  • Fidel
    Fidel Posts: 10,172
    Smoking pellets are generally made from hardwood sawdust, so I think if you know the source of the dust you would be safe. Traeger pellets made from hardwood are the sole heat source in their grills, so I figure they are safe.

    The questions is, why would you want to?
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