I had to go to a meeting at a job site that is a former walnut orchard. I saw a big pile of wood so naturally I had to inquire once all business was dealt with. The guy told me it was all walnut and I could take as much as I wanted. Does this look like walnut to you guys? I have no reason to doubt him I just want to be sure before I start using it as such. There were quite a few oaks around the perimeter as well so I'm not sure if maybe it could have been mixed it too.
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When in doubt try it on a cheap chicken leg or thigh cook, and use only salt. Then you can really taste the smoke to know if it's good. If it's not you're only out a couple bucks worth of meat and not an expensive hunk of something. If you have a couple of the same cookers, do the same on both but in one use a known favorite wood to get a good side by side judgement of the new wood.
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I'd be making live edge cutting boards and serving trays with that beautiful piece of wood.
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Frozen Smoke my friend works for our local municipal, they took down a 38†black walnut with 20’ of straight wood..... he got to keep it
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Well it is not American or Black walnut as Mudbeaver pictured. It very well could be English walnut (thin pale shelled nuts) which type of nut do they grow?
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I think I got mostly live oak. Which is a good find anyway! Maybe some olive?
It was a black walnut orchard but kind of interesting I found a list of trees for relocation from the job site.
I'll try to get back there this week to search for the tell tale signs of walnut! (dark core)
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Most walnut in Nor Cal is grafted. Black walnut is the base and English Walnut is the top. Black Walnut has a better root system and English Walnut has a better nut with less tannin. They are a cleaner, bigger walnut. Thank my wife, the Ag/Animal Science for that info. She is wonderfully informative but won't let me indulge my MCS to it's potential.
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tbob4 great info! I’ll have to see if I can find any. I’ve heard walnut has a great flavor to its smoke.
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