Has anyone ever tried using Thorne's packaging material as smoker fuel?

[drstitson]

i also use it along with dead wood as per PH and lavender trimmings/walnut leaves.

 

[mbc]

The problem with cardboard packaging is that its usually impregnated with flame retardant, ask almost any marine mammal near an estuary, their thyroid glands are packed full of these flame retarding chemicals. You will get a nicer smoke from cardboard packaging if you leave it out to soak in the rain for a few months to leach the chemicals out of it, once dry it will then be ok as smoker fuel, but still not as good as well rotted wood.

 

[nelletap]

I tried it but it didn't seem brilliant - could have been me. It coincided with the bees being a little tetchy but that could have been coincidence. It seemed to give me a headache as well. enough to put me off persevering.

 

[MJBee]

I know that pine is a no no in the woodburner but had anyone tried it in a smoker? We have dozens of big (2ft diameter trunks) pines that were blown down in the big storm of 1999. The outside 4 - 6 inches is pulp, very wet but would it be worth collecting and drying?

 

[Erichalfbee]

dead wood and lavender trimmings/walnut leaves.

How about topping up with cherry laurel as per another thread?

 

[drstitson]

no thanks - had a bad experience recently anyway when OH decided to take some laurel cuttings and put them in same jar of water as some blackberry/tayberry cuttings. result - dead soft fruit plants.

 

[BeeJayBee]

How about topping up with cherry laurel as per another thread?

I hope you're not serious?

 

[Ziggymole]

collect good moss in the autumnn dry over winter fantastic smoker fuel

That is one very good tip for someone who has a moss lawn rather than a grass one - we just put 4 wheel barrowfulls of the stuff on our organic tip.

 

[Luminos]

How about topping up with cherry laurel as per another thread?

 

[Erichalfbee]

I hope you're not serious?

 

[keithgrimes]

I use hessian sacking with dried donkey poo and lavender stalks

make a sausage of the wet donkey poo inside a number of layers of hessian and make into a smoker sized sausage and allow to dry... cut into suitable smoker sized lengths.

Long lasting aromatic smoke !

Dried donkey poo? that's classic.

By the way, where would you get a dried donkey, and how does it poo?

 

[keithgrimes]

I'm reluctant to use any cardboard. A lot of it is chemically treated either with preservative or fire retardant

 

[REDWOOD]

I know that pine is a no no in the woodburner but had anyone tried it in a smoker? We have dozens of big (2ft diameter trunks) pines that were blown down in the big storm of 1999. The outside 4 - 6 inches is pulp, very wet but would it be worth collecting and drying?

I use pine cones that I have put through a wood chipper, natural smoker fuel !

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Got a big poplar tree which fell down years ago where I fish. Really rotten on the outside, i take a big chunk home each time and dry it in the greenhouse. When it rots a bit more i peel some more off. Keeps me and the association apiary going

 

[SixFooter]

I use it along with newspaper, but rotten wood is the best. I just go for a walk/run in the woods and bring back a piece of rotten wood. Sometimes, I take a rucksack with a bin bag in and get a lot, but often I just bring back a conveniently carriable stick. I saw a rotten tree being cut up at the side of the road on the way to work once. I stopped and asked if I could have some. The tree fellers ( actually there was only 2 of them) thought I was mad but let me take a rotten log about 6ft long.