I have been lurking in the background for some months reading all the posts and have just recently tried hot smoking with a Kettle Grill, If I say so myself the results were superb, but were somewhat costly! You see I live in Indonesia and had to buy imported Hickory and Mesquite wood chips for the smoke! I would love to try some of the tropical fruit woods, to give my food a local flavour and was planning to use some mango wood, until I found quite by accident that the smoke from mango wood is apparently very toxic! I understood from all the information I had read on the web that any fruitwood was suitable, but this appears not to be the case! Do we have anybody with experience of the tropical woods who could point me in the right direction, I could easily get wood from the following trees: rambutan, water apple, avocado, star fruit, citrus, etc. but would like some advice to avoid possible poisoning!!!!!

I guess I could always test it on my mother in law

Best Regards,
Richard