/ck/ - Food & Cooking

oof smoking chiggin or pork with clean white beechwood is my absolute top flavor. I used to go out in the woods in spring and find all the beech trees that were broken from the winter, and I would harvest and split them up while they were still fresh and we would use them for smokewood all summer. Fuck hickory and mesquite, beech is the best.

Pic related, me splitting up all the spring beech with kitty watching closely

>>19842909
beech is my preferred smokewood. I harvest it every summer

>>19691015
nah man I just brine it overnight, salt pepper and garlic powder it, and toss it on indirect heat and keep an eye on the coals. The charcoal tastes really nice by itself but I also toss strips of beechwood in throughout, shit is absolutely my favourite smokewood.

>>15871376
for me, grilled on a beechwood plank and then firebombed at full temp for 5mins with maple/mustard glaze

pic somewhat related, me processing fresh beech with kitty supervising

>be me
>grow up in rural New England
>wild blueberries all over the property
>wild cranberries
>a literal acre of raspberries and blackberries
>groves of wild apples and crab apples of all types to harvest in September and make pies
>blankets of wintergreen berries you can harvest all year, even dig them up from under the snow
>a secret chestnut tree deep in the woods
>acres of sumac, spruce, beechnuts
>groves of birch and beechwood to harvest for smokewood in summer

Now I live in the city in Australia and spend like $7 for a punnet of berries at a supermarket, and they're all sour and taste like cardboard. Almost all native trees toxic to use as smokewood.