home made bisket question

[buttburner]

Hey guys...My smoker will arriving in about an hr from my buddy in the brown truck....

Looking over the home made bisquettes posts got me to thinking

has anyone tried just using a holesaw and punching them out of solid wood? I am sure it would not burn at the same rate, I dunno???

I have a hickory tree and for years I have been just using my chainsaw to slice it up for my old smokers.... I could just slice it to the proper thickness and use a holesaw in my drill press to cut them out.

Actually I have already made some this way to try out lol

anyone else?

[ananomoly]

I bought some raw oak wood planks from Lowes and did the same thing with a hole saw. Works great!!!
The first puck gets charred a bit but I just keep rotating to a new puck on the next use.

[buttburner]

I am trying one now in my seasoning process

It works, but the volume of smoke is a lot less.

I bet if I drilled a few holes in it, it would burn better.

I dunno, might be worth it if I mixed in some with my regular biskets

we'll see

[Smokin Soon]

Could work, but would not give the pure constant smoke that the Bradley was designed for.

[Gizmo]

Several have made the attempt but I recall they were not happy with the results and returned to using the bisquettes.  Do a search and you will find several posts.

[ananomoly]

Sorry but I didn't read your first post correctly. I only use the (3) oak plugs for spacers at the end of the bisquettes to push
the last bunch through.

[buttburner]

Sorry but I didn't read your first post correctly. I only use the (3) oak plugs for spacers at the end of the bisquettes to push
the last bunch through.

thanks

thats I ended up using them for