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I have had my Model 50 for a year and have mainly been using Hickory, Cherry and Apple woods with great success. My dad had an Oak fall on his property so now I have a bunch of oak drying. Any comments from the forum on smoking with oak? I have previously only used it to make coals for direct grilling. Thanks.
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Oak is great, I love hickory but I also like a lot of smoke, in seems to much hickory can get bitter. So I alway put some hickory, oak and maple in whewn I smoke. By mixing woods I can get more smoke and not have the bitter. A lot of people were I grew up in georgia only cook with oak. Just make sure its dry for the cs.
Just a couple add ons to the above.

Because oak is somewhat neutral/mellow it is often used with flavor woods.

Because traditional Cookshacks use small amounts of wood and burn very efficiently,sometimes cooks want more flavor in certain products.

For this reason,some folks will burn pure flavor woods in Cookshacks.

Sometimes, pure stickburners burn oak down to coals,to avoid oversmoking.

A popular blend for many cooks is 30% flavor woods/70% oak.

Being the "queen" of woods,it is often thought to have a mellowing effect.

As said above,try it and see.

Just a couple of thoughts.

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