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How to Choose the Best Grilling Wood For Maximum Flavor
Jun 21, 2025
In this video we're going to make your grilled food taste even better and show you how to choose the right wood to pair with whatever you're grilling. #cowboycooking #partner #smokeywoodsbbq
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how to choose the right wood to get the
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best flavor on your grill
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first off use a good hardwood lump
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charcoal not briquettes there's so many
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artificial things in them and never use
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lighter fluid and when them get white
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hot now it's time to pick out the right
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wood to get the flavor you want on that
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grill first off let's talk about hickory
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and I like to use it when I either got
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pork or I've got chicken on that grill
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now it is a hardwood and it's going to
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give you a really good rich smoky flavor
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next up and it is my all-time favorite
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mosquite makes a great lumpy hot coal
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but folks it's going to give you a
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traditional flavor i really like it on
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steaks but it can be overpowering and
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get bitter if you use too much we're
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talking about oak now this is red oak
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and white oak i like to pair it with
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even mosquite but it also goes well by
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itself if you're cooking chicken cooking
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fish cooking beef and even pork now post
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oak to me it has a more mellower smoke
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than it does the red oak or the white
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oak pecan and if I use it I'm going to
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mix it with a little bit of a mosquite
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or a little bit of oak if it's not kiln
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dried can give you an oily flavor that
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that pecan smoke puts on there you know
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when we're talking about good wood we're
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talking about smoky woods and it's all
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kiln dried you're not going to get the
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oil or the sap that's coming out of a
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piece that you go out there and cut
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right in the forest but something my
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Alaskan fans got me on board with
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alderwood this is a very mellow sweet
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smoke that I love to use on fish and
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vegetables let's move on to fruit woods
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now my favorites are cherry and apple
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now when you're using cherry wood in
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there and I like to mix it with a base
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of oak or mosquite it's going to give
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you that good rich bark that you're
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looking for on a brisket but apple I
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love it on some pork i do for longer
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smoke i like to take that smoky woods
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and just put me a big old stick in there
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right on top them coals when they're
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white hot but if you're doing a short
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cook say "Hey we're just going to throw
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some burgers on the grill get you some
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of their flakes." And you can soak them
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if you want them to last a little longer
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just make sure you guys get you a great
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hardwood to flavor what you're cooking
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on the grill and I love Smoky Woods
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because they'll ship it right to your
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door but also you can pick this up in
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nearly every Ace Hardware store meat is
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important thing that you're going to put
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on the grill what are you going to cook
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it with smoky woods you're going to get
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the heat and you're going to get the
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flavor
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