Osage Orange, aka 'hedge', for smoking?

DanielS · Mar 15, 2017

Anyone use Osage Orange for their heat wood? I don't know what sort of flavor it would impart.

It sort of has a fruit on it; hedge apple. It's not something that anything but a critter might eat.

Just wondering.

Thanks.

roncoinc · Mar 15, 2017

Very hard wood.
great in a woodstove for heating.
hard on a chainsaw and chain too.
puts out a LOT of BTU ..

don't know about using it for smoking as we don't have it around here.

cowgirl · Mar 15, 2017

I use it for heat but add other woods for flavoring.
Works great for overnight underground pits.

roncoinc · Mar 15, 2017

cowgirl said:
I use it for heat but add other woods for flavoring.
Works great for overnight underground pits.

That's it,,one of the best for heat.

legendaryhog · Mar 15, 2017

No. I would not recommend. I burn it in my wood burning stove b/c it gets hot as heck, but not for cooking. Very acrid smoke.

cowgirl · Mar 15, 2017

I've not had a problem with it. Here's an old discussion thread on the topic.

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83532&highlight=hedge

ncmoose · Mar 15, 2017

Makes a good stick bow

DanielS · Mar 16, 2017

A few years ago I gave at least a ton of hedge to a neighbor. He only burns hedge in his furnace. A lot of it was fence posts that I pulled out of the ground when removing a fence. The posts must have been in the ground well over 30 years and were hard as a rock when I pulled them up. After a few cuts with his chainsaw he'd pull out a file to resharpen it.

I have lots of the trees on my place. May need to get out the chainsaw and a good file.

Thanks for the information folks!

Osage Orange, aka 'hedge', for smoking?

DanielS

Found some matches.

roncoinc

Full Fledged Farker

cowgirl

somebody shut me the fark up.

roncoinc

Full Fledged Farker

legendaryhog

is Blowin Smoke!

cowgirl

somebody shut me the fark up.

ncmoose

is one Smokin' Farker

DanielS

Found some matches.

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