the best wood BTU's and Flavor Firing Your Oven Discuss the best wood BTU's and Flavor in the Oven Management forums; What do you think and please rank the order in which you would use first set or rankings for flavor ...

[stevenki]

What do you think and please rank the order in which you would use first set or rankings for flavor second set for best at giving off high heat BTU's

Apple
Hickory
Red Oak
White Oak
Walnut
Pecan
Ash
Pine
Mesquite
Birch
MAple
Cedar
Cypress
Other (Name)

[CanuckJim]

Steve,

Here's my read on the woods you mention:

Flavour

Apple
Pecan
Mesquite
Walnut
Any fruit wood

BTUs

White Oak
Maple
Red Oak
Hickory
Ash
Walnut
Birch

Kindling

Pine
Cedar
Cypress
Fir
2x4s
Any soft wood

Jim

[jayjay]

Ashwood wet and ashwood dry,
A king can warm his slippers by.

Here we have mango and some other fruit woods.
We also have coconut. We use the shells of the coconut
as well as the husk.
But I did not see mango or coconut on your list....
JJ
Philippines