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If you need to use the wood straight away your best option is to harvest during the winter when the sap content is lower. 11 Tips for smoking with wood Mesquite is used almost exclusively for hearty cuts of beef, especially in Texas, where the flavor is renowned. In particular, brisket is one of the most popular partners for mesquite wood. It can also be used to intensify the smoky qualities of pulled pork, especially when used in combination with a mellower wood. Shapes of Wood Used for Smoking Bark — Starts out smooth but develops shallow ridges as the tree ages, becoming gray-brown with a rough feeling, scaly square-shaped pattern in maturity. However, as a ratio of bark to heartwood, there is always comparatively little bark, so the difference it makes will be negligible.

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Add your wood early, when the meat is still cool. This is when meat takes up most smoke flavor without you having to intervene. One word of caution, while you want to get the wood on as early as possible, wait until the fire is hot and the coals have stopped smoking before you add the wood. Blonder says kiln-dried wood creates a larger smoke ring than air-dried wood and yields a smokier taste. Buy one from each group, use these for some time until you get used to using them, and getting the right strength of smoky flavor you like on the different foods you cook.

If wood is not the primary heat source, many pitmasters find that adding the wood chunks to the coals once they are hot, and the meat and thermometers are all set up, is the easiest way to start producing smoke. To ensure that you start getting good smoke right away, make sure the wood is touching the hot coals.

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For smaller cuts of beef and pork, start by adding two fist-sized chunks of smoking wood, one right on top of the fire, and some just beside it to ignite and burn some time after the first chunk burns out. I have smoked with and without the bark, and I cannot tell the difference. So my preference is to remove bark that’s easy to do so, if it simply pulls away. But to just leave it on if it doesn’t easily peel away with little effort. Life is simpler that way.We find that the heavier smoke flavored wood works much better for brisket and other cuts of beef. As brisket is generally quite a tough meat and needs a lot of time in the smoker, the best woods will be something that can burn cleanly and at moderate temperatures for a long time, whilst producing a good quality smoke. You have quite a few options here, some people tend to go straight for mesquite as it’s the heaviest smoke producer of the lot. This will probably give you a good brisket but you always run the risk of it being bitter and after 12 hours of working on your brisket you don’t want to ruin it because of the wrong choice of wood.