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Afternoon all,

A mate of mine has just immersed himself into the 'wood turning' world and bought me in a bag of cherry shavings.
Two questions..

a) Could I 'gently' smoke with these? Or would the strands be too thin, they're about the size of shredded paper (obviously, I'd put them in a container).
b) Would I need to dry them out first?

John

It depends on how "green" the wood is, if it's just damp from conventional moisture I can't see a problem with putting the wet shavings in a foil pouch, or even some of the larger pieces well soaked, onto the coals. I don't think that even the green shavings would cause too much of a problem to be honest. Cherry is a firm favourite with some smokers so fill yer boots (or pouches)

Ta Keith,

will stick a bird in this evening and give them a bash

Didn't get round to using the cherry on a chook on Tuesday but used them last night on a bone-in belly of pork, thanks Keith, absolutely lipsmacking wonderful!!!!!