Oak wood

[Pigs by the Moon BBQ]

I am looking to get some oak wood to mix with apple. What types of oak are good to bbq with?

[WBC]

I've used red oak, white oak, post oak, and probably live oak. I can't really taste a difference between the oaks. I can taste difference between oak, mesquite, and hickory.

[Zilla]

I thought we went over this already! :wink:

[bigwheel]

Live oak is the best. Got to quarter it and maintain the bark. Start it bark side down in the coals. This is gurahanteed info from a bohunk pal raised down in the Hill Country. You know it got to be right.

bigwheel

[Pigs by the Moon BBQ]

Thanks for the advice guys :wink:

[Goat]

Live oak is the best.
bigwheel

Free oak is the very best. :lol: :lol:

goat

[bigwheel]

Yeppers cant agrue with that one:) It especially nice if the "free" part includes cutting..splitting..delivering..and stacking. Now that is some real good free Oak.

bigwheel

[rstcso]

Yeppers cant agrue with that one:) It especially nice if the "free" part includes cutting..splitting..delivering..and stacking. Now that is some real good free Oak.

I guess I've never tried any of that free oak. I always seem to have to work for it, either cutting it myself or working for $$$ to pay for it.

[bigwheel]

Ya know sometimes the yups up here get it all nicely cut and stacked and laying out by the curb just waiting for a needy bbq cook to load it up. Now it do require the manuel labor of throwing it in the pickup and unloading it at the house and such things. Then you got to listen to the warden nag about big piles of wood in the yard..blah blah blah. Is sometimes enough to break chubby boys into a sweat. Thats why I like charcoal and chunks so well.

bigwheel

[david brace]

I always heard that White Oak has the better taste, due to it having less bitter tannins in the fiber of the wood. So I have only used white oak.

DB

[TexLaw]

I've heard similar remarks, but I've never noticed a whole lot of difference. Maybe I'm just not all that sophisticated. :D


TL

[david brace]

To respond to TL...I think I'm just afraid or stubborn or cheap to try other types of oak :lol: I also wonder if a sophisticated taste could really tell the difference between the oaks. Maybe...

DB

[TexLaw]

I'd bet that only someone who has really tried to learn how could tell the difference between the oaks, and only then if they had samples next to each other.


TL