CSG and any (hardwood)sawdust

[wheels]

The guy from the link I posted above has had success using a mix of very fine dust along with chips from a planer.

HTH

Phil

[saucisson]

coffee grinder

What a good (brave even!) idea

do you remember what that weight per vol was ?

No, but I can work it out for you

[ArtL]

>had success using a mix of very fine dust along with chips from a planer

Yes, I saw that, interesting, much coarser than I had expected.

Yesterday I experimented withn a 'U' channel made out of 1/2 a kitchen roll tube and some very old very dry cherry wood dust., 2inches per hour burn, bit fast. Surprisingly the cardboard was a bit scorched but reasonably intact, I had expected it to burn away with the dust.
Tried again with tea leaves ( blame A.Worral-T for that thought !) failure didnt burn at all.

[ArtL]

and as I was leaving the forum after posting the above a light came on in my head ( I'm a bit slow these days )
TV chefs are fond of tea leaves in woks to give an instant smoke flavour, so wonder what if I mix the tea leaves with the (cherry) dust

[saucisson]

for oak, 100g of dust is 340ml.

[wheels]

:idea: and as I was leaving the forum after posting the above a light came on in my head ( I'm a bit slow these days )
TV chefs are fond of tea leaves in woks to give an instant smoke flavour, so wonder what if I mix the tea leaves with the (cherry) dust

Nah, I think we can strive to do better than tea leaves!

Even if you buy the dust in small quantities, it isn't exactly expensive! Buy it in bulk and with the large amount for postage it's still under 20p per 12 hour smoke (oak or beech). The bulk pack from Mac's works out at 40p (ish) per smoke - it hardly breaks the bank!

Phil

[Richierich]

I might just buy some more from Macs.....

[wheels]

Oops, sorry, I didn't mean to sound prescriptive, but compared to (say) running a Bradley, it is cheap.

[ArtL]

40p (ish) per smoke - it hardly breaks the bank!

Yes, couldnt agree more, I was just sort of thinking aloud [and I'd better not say anything about my other thoughts, , , like home grown tobacco leaves or even other errr weeds ]
There are other advantages to buying it ready made, like not having it blow into your eyes on a windy day outside !

Having decided/shown that it can be DIY is no reason not to go buy a well constructed professional convenient tidy job and dispense with the HeathR aspects

[ArtL]

I was just sort of thinking aloud ,,,

EDIT: while my mind wandered about other flavours ,,,

I wasnt thinking of tea leaves as a cost cutting exersize !

[ArtL]

Buy it in bulk and with the large amount for postage it's still under 20p per 12 hour smoke (oak or beech).

http://forum.sausagemaking.org/viewtopic.php?t=5194

Wood dust for it could be collected from Ashwood Smoking Chips Ltd for those living near - the price (about £6 for a large sack of oak) make it worthwhile.

Anyone know of similar in N.Somerset,Bristol, S.Glos ? ie. old Avon area.

[wheels]

It should be noted that whilst beech and oak are under a tenner. Fruit woods etc are £35 (ish). Still good value though. I think that delivery by courier would be about £15.

Sorry, I don't know about other suppliers.

[ArtL]

It should be noted ..Fruit woods etc are £35 (ish).

Eeek!
Thanks Phil,
I only mentioned cherry in my previous posts because that was what was closest to the top of the heap/most convenient, being not yet a smoker - which is why I asked the orig question - I have not, _yet_ , come to a favourite tree !

I have available copious quantities of beech, field maple, turkey oak, hawthorn, bullace, sloe, several varieties of apple; lesser quantitides of pear, common oak and cherry. (excluding the softwoods like larch, macrocarpa, scots pine, and yew (is that a soft wood ?) )

However, being also average lazy, if there was a convenient source of ready prepared dust the above could continue as autumn and spring heating, midwinter being coal cos otherwise it means too much fetching and carrying of wood, not to mention chain saw excersize !

Exits sage left with calculator and tape measure on his cherry, apple and pear ,,,,

[ArtL]

for oak, 100g of dust is 340ml.

Thanks, interesting benchmark.
At the mo. I have 1pint light shaken cherry = 62g and 1pint squidged down = 74g on my grade of dust.
I'll do the pint / ml conversion later
but looks like my cherry is a lot less dense than oak.

[saucisson]

I don't have time to check as I'm going out but I have an idea that yew is poisonous and must not be used to smoke. I'll get back t you on that.

Dave