Smoking With Wood - How to Choose the Right Wood for Smoking Meat

Choosing the best Wood for Smoking and Grilling

There are different types of wood to use for smoking bbq. I like to choose a seasoned wood chunk.

When I use charcoal as a heat source I like a seasoned wood chunk for flavor. When cooking on a stick burner, use a seasoned wood split for smoking.

[progers]

I think short informative videos like this are great. The majority of people are like me and are just getting into smokers. We've been grillin steaks, hamburger, chicken all our life but doing ribs, brisket, boston butt etc on a smoker is new or we have little experience. I'm trying to catch up though and vids like this are great. Thanks for all your contribution to BBQ 101. By the way, I just got some of your THE BBQ RUB & SAUCE in the mail. Will be trying it out on some ribs this weekend.

[darronchristopher]

This is my page right here! My first bbq didn't know a thing about smoking meat I went to YouTube found this page and never turned back! Memorial Day is coming up best of luck to all the smokers out there

[demohunto]

Been going through all your videos, bought your rubs sauces and made brisket, pork shoulder, ribs, pork chops, tri tip, and the stuffed chicken breast. All these foods were phenomenal!!! Some of the best food I’ve eaten. Malcolm you’re the best

[CaseyScoffieldWOW]

I like the combination of hickory and apple. Love apple. I love the taste of the smoke that it puts off.

[ZippyTheWonderDog]

You make the best grilling videos - I'm a real fan.

[trey]

My personal top 5 wood to some with are.
1. Apple
2. Oak
3. Pecan
4. Cherry
5. Mesquite

[justaddmusclecom]

This video was amazing, super informative.

[LiveIbanez]

I start a chimney with briquettes, enough to fill about half my firebox, then use the lovely post oak as a primary source since we've got an infinite source here (TX). I'll generally use hickory chunks but I'll use pecan sometimes too. For heavier meats I'll mix half as much of both hickory and pecan on top of the post oak. Incredible smoke flavor.

[KnightOfTears]

Great video Malcom! I find that a combination of hickory and cherry or pecan and cherry is magical for most cooks, even on my pellet grill.

[oofogmanoo]

I use to cut trees and tried wood from a yellow popular tree and it gave it an amazing flavor.

[markkromer]

I have lots of pearwood I've been using with hickory and cherry for pork butts. Yeah, combination

[hughmorris]

perfect answer to my questions that brought me here. Thanks

[ArkansasBadBoy]

Pecan & sugar maple mixed are absolutely delightful :)

[TrueHearted]

Thanks for the update.
My new question, HOW TO USE WOOD IN A SIDE SMOKE BOX ON MY BARREL GRILL ( START - FINISH )?

[oren]

I'm happy for you. Sorry, I don't use Twitter or Facebook. Comments about the wood chucks was good.

[charliemcgee]

Alder plus sugar cane is good with spicy chicken. Good sweet/spicy flavor.

[tyremanguitars]

English Pear is a really nice wood for smoking if you can find some, my favourite.

[xTHEPIPERx]

Does anyone have insight on persimmon wood? I have someone who's giving a bunch of it away and was wondering if anyone has used it for smoking?

[dusbus]

In Texas the wood of choice is oak. Nice clean spoke with little extra flavors. Let’s you really taste the meat. Might be why our bbq is best

[JM-fcgm]

Pound for pound, I gotta give the strong nod to post oak as the best smoking wood.