found in<\/a> wilted leaves, not the wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\nIf you want to be extra sure that you are smoking pork and other meats with safe wood, though, you should make it a point to choose good wood that hasn’t been processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
2. What Wood Should Not Be Smoked?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Avoid smoking soft woods at all cost! Not only do they have sap and turpenes but they also produce soot when smoked. In doing so, they turn the meat bitter. It is best to stick to fruitwoods like cherry, apple, maple, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wrapping It Up<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
As you can see, cherry wood is a great option for smoking meat! So, the next time you want to smoke pork, chicken, or anything mildly flavored, you know what wood to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And, if you are cooking dark meats or beef, then you know that cherry can make for an excellent accompaniment to mesquite or hickory. With all this knowledge, you can guarantee that your next cook is going to be a good one!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cherry wood is great for smoking, in fact, it is one of my favorites. It works especially well for smoking pork and other delicately flavored meats. I completely understand why you would be wondering is cherry wood good for smoking. Most pitmasters will talk about mesquite, hickory, and oak but cherry is rarely mentioned. Well, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"table_tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7804"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8148,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7804\/revisions\/8148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7804"},{"taxonomy":"table_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pitmastercentral.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/table_tags?post=7804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}