Make A Meat Smoker
Smoking with mulberry wood?
There are 2 very large mulberry trees in my yard that were blown over in a storm. The base of each tree is about the diameter of a 55 gallon drum. I’ve smoked meat with pecan, pear, apple and hickory wood before. How does mulberry wood perform in a smoker? Would I use the small, medium or large branches to make chunks of wood for the smoker?
You can use both the logs for the heat source and the branches for smoking, any fruit wood is fine, only pine and cedar give off an oily resin that can be bitter, but if the trees came down in the recent storms, I would use the branches and let the wood dry, it will just be less smoky a fire.
Like nut woods, fruit wood impart a lighter smoke, hardwoods like maple, oak and hickory are stronger and are best tempered with a fruit wood for contrast. I am a former chef and have use quite a number of different type of wood, even old grape vines are not bad.
If your smoking anything for a long time you have to add in stages, for a quick smoke then after the initial wood has burned of it is done, but for long cooked or smoked products like briskets, hams, spare ribs or whole hogs, you need a heat source generally wood or charcoal, and add the smoking medium at stages to penetrate the entire piece of meat overtime.
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