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Tropical Fruit => Tropical Fruit Discussion => Topic started by: BonsaiBeast on July 06, 2020, 08:44:10 PM

Title: Cooking/Smoking with Tropical Fruit Woods?
Post by: BonsaiBeast on July 06, 2020, 08:44:10 PM

Now that I have my yard filled with establishing mangos, peaches, citrus, sapotes, loquats, avocados, and other trees that will need trimming soon, it got me thinking: do any of these woods work well for smoking/barbecuing?

It would seem like these widely-ranging flavored fruits might produce widely-ranging flavored smoke. Does anyone have experience trying this out? I had a batch of jerk chicken I was going to try grilling up over an open charcoal flame, but it got me thinking about the possible tropical woods that might accompany this tropical dish.

Title: Re: Cooking/Smoking with Tropical Fruit Woods?
Post by: roblack on July 06, 2020, 10:10:20 PM

guava wood is supposed to be great for grilling

Title: Re: Cooking/Smoking with Tropical Fruit Woods?
Post by: bulldawg305 on July 06, 2020, 10:11:50 PM

Peach wood is great for smoking. I have heard of people using citrus and avocado as well.

However, I would be hesitant to use mango wood because of the sap.

Title: Re: Cooking/Smoking with Tropical Fruit Woods?
Post by: ScottR on July 08, 2020, 10:30:59 AM

I use guava wood on BBQ quite a bit and other fruit woods for sure too they have a sweet light smoke flavor!
I've used guava, deciduous fruit tree wood cherry, prunus all, macadamia and non fruiting wood mostly maple and liquid amber has a very nice smoke profile for my annual smoked turkey at Thanksgiving time!

Title: Re: Cooking/Smoking with Tropical Fruit Woods?
Post by: buddy roo on July 08, 2020, 11:46:24 AM

guava-citrus and allspice is my favorite  even the allspice leaves are good to use