FRESH WOOD

[CAWKY1962]

How long do you think it will take to dry naturally?

[JEC]

6 to 18 months depending on how dry you want it and where you store it. I generally use wood around a year old

[CAWKY1962]

I cant wait 12 months for it dry, i'm gonna show my missus who wears the trousers in this house and that i'm the boss. Then ask her for permission to put it in the airing cupboard

[Steve]

It's still going to take months in the airing cupboard. Whilst I agree with showing the women who's boss if I were you I'd buy some smoking wood for this season and keep your apple for next year.

[CAWKY1962]

Took your advice from a previous thread Steve and got in touch with Paul Goulden and he's done me a real good deal on three boxes of oak,cherry and hickory delivered all the way up here to Hull, so hopefully i'll be up and running next week

[Steve]

Good call mate. The cherry is quite similar to apple in many ways. Be careful with English oak it's quite strong. Mixing oak and cherry is a lovely combination. One part oak two parts cherry works very nicely.

And next year you'll have all that lovely apple to look forward to

[keith157]

Good call mate, best not upset the missus, putting your foot down is all well and good, but hopping for the rest of your life (short as it would undoubtedly have been) would not be elegant.

I can confirm oak on it's own is VERY strong

[CAWKY1962]

Guess you tried oak on its own then Keith, does it make meat unedible if too much used or is it ok if just small amounts used or should I always mix it with others like you say Steve? Ive only ever used the Weber chips and the longest ever cook I've done upto now was my turkey on the rotisserie at Christmas which took about 3 hours, so long smokes are a whole new ball game to me.I've never had a smoker before so all advice is greatly accepted

[CAWKY1962]

Who or what is Bing (bot)

[JEC]

A search engine is collecting information relating to a search from the forum, explained in general terms below, there are also google bots for example

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingbot