can pine wood be used for grilling smoking meats
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Maybe certain types of pine may be Ok in very limited quantities but sounds like something I would not like to try for fear of creating a permanent off-flavor in my smoker. I googled using pine for smoking and didn't see too many good responses but there were some references to using spruce for certain meats in Germany.
DoHomerSimpson
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Very unwise from a health perspective AFAIK. Something about carcinogenic effects of incomplete combustion of resins, chemicals and tars that would saturate the meat..
Stick with 'fruity' hardwoods...
Stick with 'fruity' hardwoods...
Pine is your wood if you like the taste of turpentine.
Gugi47
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No, is not good.
Don't try ....
Don't try ....
homemade
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As far as straight pine to produce smoke I wouldn’t think it’s a good idea. I know fish can be smoked with cedar which is a conifer.
If you like smoking and pine is free, try making a charcoal maker. There is several ways to do it, but I would think that once you burn most of the pitch out of it it would loose the pine-sol taste.
If you like smoking and pine is free, try making a charcoal maker. There is several ways to do it, but I would think that once you burn most of the pitch out of it it would loose the pine-sol taste.
CentaurG2
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Pine for grilling (cooking over high heat) will probably work but it might take some practice to get it right. It generates plenty of heat but usually does not form good long-lasting coals that put out even heat.
Pine for smoking would probably come down to a matter of taste. I think the flavor would be just horrid but people do cook on cedar planks, chew spruce gum, drink gin and some even drink turpentine.
Pine for smoking would probably come down to a matter of taste. I think the flavor would be just horrid but people do cook on cedar planks, chew spruce gum, drink gin and some even drink turpentine.
apple is good
oh this is that guy try cow patties
Yep...Pine is great , especially the treated kind.
The only wood I will use to smoke Carp is Pine! Wrap the carp in foil on a pine slab after coating in Tabasco, cook for 4.3 hours over low pine coals. Remove and let rest 20 minutes, remove the foil and throw away the carp, eat the pine slab that should now be tender.
Old recipe, but I've never tried it. Don't like carp or pine.
c5rulz
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With all the grease, I would think the pine plank would blaze up a storm in a wood stove.
A few weeks ago, I had a small whitepine break off next to my firepit. It had been dead for a long time. Of course I cut it up and threw it in the pit. I had a pretty big pile and I wanted it all gone so I stayed with it and kept throwing it on the pit. When all the wood was gone, I decided to throw on my cowboy grill and cook a few burgers. damn best burgers I had ever ate. I threw on a few of the bigger pieces of pine I had saved and let them burn down and threw 10 more burgers on the grill. We had burgers for the next several days. While pine would not be my first choice for smoking, it sure made those burgers taste yummy. Of course this was very dead and dry pine, I suspect green might not have worked so well.
Cooked on burnt down pine coals many times. No way I'd use it to smoke. Anybody guess what people cooked over out west for generations?
CentaurG2
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I think back in the day, anything you could find that would burn was acceptable cooking fuel and that included cow pies.
KenJax Tree
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Railroad ties are better for smoking meat.
I was just going to say buffalo dung.
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