Smoking meat with Walnut?

[Magicman]

I know that fruit tree wood and nut tree wood makes good meat smoking wood, but what about Walnut?

[beenthere]

Eeeuuww!

  ;D
Let us know how it works.

[iffy]

I read in some guide to smoking meats that it imparts a very bitter taste.

[D Hagens]

I've tried walnut once, dried the chips myself. It gives meat a very different bitter taste
I don't think I would try it again, good for the camp fire though 8)

[Magicman]

Yup, I was asked about it yesterday.  My thoughts were that it would be strong/overpowering.  I'll see him tomorrow, and tell him to stick with Pecan, Hickory, and China Berry.

[Raider Bill]

I ruined a good brisket with walnut smoke a few years ago. Bitter,  very bitter.

[zopi]

Try cherry for ribs...yum! Sassafras is good too.

[zopi]

I wonder if galvy spikes would improve on that? lol

[tyb525]

It would taste like it smells...and it smells like a hog farm to me!

[beenthere]

tyb
Glad I don't have your sniffer.  ;D

[SwampDonkey]

 :D :D nasty

[iffy]

For an occasional change I like to use Osage Orange.

[DanG]

Lynn, tell him to mix a little fat lit'rd with the walnut to sweeten it up a bit. ;D

[Magicman]

Jerry will be smoking me a Boston Butt tomorrow while I am sawing for Radar67.  He will use Oak.   ;D

[caveman]

MM, I don't get a lot of walnut but we did cook 38 Boston butts last night on pignut hickory.  Usually, I use black cherry but decided to change it up a bit.  We cooked 150 chickens this morning on cherry--what a sweet aroma in the cool morning air.  The worst meat I ever smoked was an experiment with white oak from a whiskey barrel.  Let us know how the walnut works out. 

[zopi]

Cherry is awesome smoking wood...I keep a stash of chunks, various species out in the shed...cherry, oak, mesquite, sassafrass, maple...well, if I want maple, I just shag a piece off the woodpile...need to dig up some beech..beech makes good ribs...have some apple from an orchard I cleared a couple years back...a couple of doors up, a guy has a big pignut hickory leaning and hung up...cheap dude, won't pay for the removal, but said if I wanted the tree to come get it amd leave the brush lay...sooo...slabs off of that will wind up in the stash...already have a little pecan amd bitternut...guess I need to make some bbq!

[D Hagens]

So MM, how'd it turn out? Are you going to post pics to make us drool over as you usually do

[Magicman]

Let us know how the walnut works out. 

The Walnut idea was canned as per the responses above. 



But, when you have seen one nice butt, you have truly seen a good thing.   ;D



Jerry's smoker.

[SwampDonkey]

I don't know much about smokers, but it sure looks OK by me.  ;D

How'd the meat taste? ;)