Anyone Tried Birch Wood

[Habanero Smoker]

There was another member who made his bisquettes out of solid wood. He did one additional step. He drilled holes in his to improve the way they smoked.

[rigstar]

thanks for the tip Habs

[JZ]

Ditto

I think I will try solid pucks first though - just less effort to make them.

[JZ]

Verdict is in!

I have now smoked chicken twice using the solid Birch pucks and they worked perfect. Made a ton of smoke and the taste was great. The first smoke was last night with one piece of chicken (just in case there was going to be a problem or the taste wasn't good). But it worked great and the wife loved the taste so much I did a bigger batch tonight and once again everything turned out great. I used 4 pucks for each smoke. While the chicken was in the smoker I went to the shop and made about 50 pucks. It took about 40 minutes.

Looks like I will be using a lot of Birch from now on.

Here's a pic of the smoker while it was running (just to prove it happened). I guess I should have taken a pic with the door open but that would mean loosing heat and it wasn't very warm today as you can probably tell by the fresh snow in the background.

[Quarlow]

Sounds good John. A new flavour is always great.