Gather wood

[Fire Art]

I’m going to start gathering some native smoking wood in this area I have used choke cherry and quaking aspen but we also have serviceberry and sugar maple brush we are primarily I conifer area I was wondering about Willows and cotton wood?

[EdF]

This chart may help a bit: https://kbq.us/wood-selection/

[Fire Art]

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[PBCDad]

Don't use cottonwood. What I've heard is that its smoke smells like urine. I usually google "smoke with ____" type of wood and get good results, lots of people have the same question.

[texastweeter]

being allergic to cottonwood, my eyes would swell shut and I would be sneezing everywhere. Might as well be smoking with poison ivy.

[JeffJ]

Anyone ever used birch?

[Henrik]

Yup, cannot stand it. Birch is good for heat, but absolutely terrible for smoke. That's my 2 cents anyway.

[JeffJ]

Thanks for the input Henrik. I saw some birch for sale and resisted buying it because I knew nothing about it for cooking.

[Steve R.]

Great fire pit wood, but I have way too much oak, hickory and black cherry around to mess with all that other stuff too much.