I got an email saying the Fruita Wood guy is retiring and closing the doors April 15th. I bought all my smoking wood from those guys. I just checked and this is not reflected on the web site yet, but I'll be stocking up before long.
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Yeah, Smokinlicious is great. Uniform sized pieces, no bark, good stuff. Learned about them from a fellow board member here a while back, think it was STEbbq if I remember correctly.
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I have poor taste memory. Wife and I had been using wood from the hardware stores. After reading from numerous posts that fresh wood from an orchard or wood bought online was better, I bought from Fruita. The taste was significant enough for me to tell the difference. My wife and I like smoky, not acrid. Flavor was much better and worth the price.
I recommend you trying a taste test. Get some wood from an orchard or buy some that is dried naturally, not kiln dried, and do a side by side test.
Fruita has a selection I haven't seen in stores. I got plum and orange. I can't say I actually taste a difference from apple, which is readily available. I think I just like the idea lol
I just received a 30 pound order from Fruita in January. Haven't used any of it, yet. Takes me about a year to go through 30 pounds of wood. Buying extra now does not seem reasonable, by the time I get to it it will be very old. I will miss the Peach. The Palisades Peach wood had a fantastic flavor, very bright and sweet! I had 5 different varieties from Fruita and did a taste test with chicken breasts. We settled on Pecan and Peach as our go-to varietals. I think Bert outsources his Pecan and others, but the Peach is local.
My last order was about 2 years ago, and I still have some post oak and a little plum. So I ordered 40 lbs this time - orange, plum, pecan and peach. Should to last me awhile.
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I may have pondered too long about placing an order even though I have enough for a few months. I've bought sweet cherry and hickory from them for quite a while. I'll keep checking their website just in case they're updating inventory or something and not shutting down early.
The owner sent an email saying he received over 600 orders which is nearly 2 months of work so he shutdown the website temporarily to fulfill the orders. The website will probably open back up about April 1. New orders will take about 3-4 weeks to process.
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One mans trash is another’s treasure. I have to pay to have pecan limbs hauled off. About once a year the pile gets too big and I call the guy I use. I remember ComfortablyNumb saying he had all kinds of apple wood. Spinaker has lots of wood too. I guess we should form a co-op.
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