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I'm looking at smoking some meat 'US' BBQ style (Louisiana, Texas, South Carolina, take your pick!) and am on the look out for chunks of hard wood cheap. Oak, fruit tree wood, anything that's a 'hard' wood. Does anyone know where in Dublin I could get this?

I have some oak staves from a whiskey barrell, Free !!

otherwise timber from a timber yard is surprisingly cheap. Ash and oak and maple are about 30-40 euro a cubic metre if i remember right, and beech is just about the cheapest hardwood. so buy a big plank and start chipping off it, will last you forever.

"richiehamilton":xyg6op7q wrote: otherwise timber from a timber yard is surprisingly cheap. [/quote:xyg6op7q]

Don't smoke with wood from a timber yard or commercial stuff it treat to prevent warping and such. Very nasty stuff!

I'm not sure that's true of hardwood. As I understand it they are painted at the ends to slow moisture loss and absorbtion, which prevents cracking and warping and they are kilned dry, but not painted or treated with anything. but obviously the thing to do is ask someone at the timber yard. I think the pressure treated timber might be, but that's softwood for use outdoors. The lisnavagh timber project in Carlow definitely sell boards that are airdried and not even kilned.

i gotta agree with richiehamilton on this one, all Hardwoods that i've ever sold while in the builders suppliers we're never treated. we could order treated hardwoods for you but i don't ever recall anyone asking for it, you may find treated hardwoods in exterior timber yards, it is less likely to be treated if it is being kept in a warehouse. the best policy is to ask the chargehand in charge of hardwoods as they are best equipped to deal with the question.