Anyone Flavor Wood for smoking

[grneyemonstr]

I have heard that you can soak wood in various juices wines and beer for smoking. Anyone done this? If so how much to how much water? How long to you soak for and how long does it take for the wood to dry?

[jerseyhunter]

For starters you don't want the wood to be dry, it will catch fire, you want smoke.
you can also use different kinds of wood, apple, cherry, hickory etc.
Normally I soak my wood chunks in water for 30-60 minutes I guess you can replace the water with whatever you like.

[petasux]

You can soak your wood in a mixture of water and whatever you want, apple juice, wine, etc..Ive never noticed a lot of difference in the flavor doing this personally.

You can also save the water and whatever you mixed it with and use it the water pan of the smoker while youre cooking.

If you really want the flavor of the wine or juice or whatever in the meat you can pull the meat off when its got an hour or so left to cook, boat it in tinfoil and add the liquid in the bottom of the foil and finish cooking it, Ive done thing using apple juice on baby back ribs before and it gives it a nice flavor.

[Canned Heat]

I've heard of soaking your wood in apple juice, or having it white wine infused.

I do that to my cedar planks that I do trout and salmon on....I've heard of guys using vodka too. Don't know what that adds...?

[yodeldog3]

I use green wood, apple mostly. cut from a live tree and strip of leaves , and new growth chunk it into small peices and give that a try, I think it's the way to go.

[BlackLab]

My main choice of wood is hickory chuckssomtimes mixed with a little apple wood.