smoker fuel / again

[abm]

ok, i've started to save used T bags..... (not a fetish...)

Has anyone tried new T bags ?

just a though.....

 

[dn170221]

Just used ones on top of my main fuel. When I get the aroma from the tea bags burning I know to refill my smoker! (a tip learnt from here, not my own)

 

[madasafish]

I prefer the smell of cannabis sativa.

No nasty additives.

 

[REDWOOD]

Rotted wood

 

[Curley]

Not sure what they do to the paper of tea-bags or if indeed it is paper - it certainly doesn't rot in my compost bin in one go through -usually have to recompost them or accept the veg patch looking litteredd with small grey bits of tissue. And certain smelly teas - like cheap early grey - have aromatics put in on small pieces of expanded polystyrene - not sure I want to burn that either

 

[itma]

ok, i've started to save used T bags..... (not a fetish...)

Has anyone tried new T bags ?

just a though.....

Tea can be used for smoking foods. But normally, not in the bag ...

 

[itma]

Not sure what they do to the paper of tea-bags or if indeed it is paper - it certainly doesn't rot in my compost bin in one go through -usually have to recompost them or accept the veg patch looking litteredd with small grey bits of tissue. ..:

This varies greatly from brand to brand.
IIRC Sainsbury Red Label (as insisted upon by Someone I Used To Know) bags were almost indestructible, while Twinings composted nicely.

 

[MikeT]

50 yrs ago my Rural Science teacher always used cut up hessian bags. Can't get a supply of old bags now so I use rotted wood mostly pine, gives nice smell.

 

[Edwardking]

Somalian incense. Very relaxing for both parties.

 

[dn170221]

Somalian incense. Very relaxing for both parties.

I often wonder whether the bees get as much of a relax from a nice smelling smoker as I do. Sometimes when in thE middle of a stressful inspection or manipulation and the smoker hits a sweet spot of fuel it really does help relax things, for me anyway!

 

[domino]

I'm a big fan of rotting wood.

 

[juanito]

Almond shells for us.

 

[Martin Bee]

I had a visit last year from a Canadian beekeeper who uses the dried flower/seed heads of Stag's-horn Sumach (Rhus typhina) and as I have a thicket near my hives which had some seed heads from the previous year I tried it and it was very good. Has anyone else used this very free and nice smoking material. I have a bag of drying seed heads hanging up in my shed ready for the new season.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Can't get a supply of old bags now

Swansea Kingsay on a Thurday night - not as good now that Baron's nightclub has closed

 

[SixFooter]

I collected some rotten wood in an old back pack 2 years ago whilst walking the dog in a nearby wood. I've also picked up prunings of rotten wood from people's gardens I saw as I drove past and I found a 4 ft long very rotten log in a layby that I put in my car and took home. I think I now have enough for the rest of my life! I keep it outside as a home for creepy crawlies and I have a small stock drying in the greenhouse. I dried some of it in a tray in the back of my car. Once dry, it's lovely stuff. Breaks apart easily so I can stuff the smoker and pack it full and it doesn't go out.

 

[Finman]

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Rotten birch from woods. But specially rotten. All are not good. Some burn too fast and some burn not at all. When I find proper, I pick it more.

Too much smoke means tar formation in smoker and tar condensation onto honey combs.

I do not love smoke. It is poison and make clothes to stink. And smoke is tar in form of gas.

Best smoke is light and blue. White smoke means more flying tar.
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[pargyle]

Swansea Kingsay on a Thurday night - not as good now that Baron's nightclub has closed

Grab a Grannie night at the Whitley Bay Rex ... not sure it's still there but someone on here will know ... used to be Thursday night !

Sorry ... off topic - led astray by JBM !!