Best Wood For Smoking Chicken Wings

When you are smoking meat low and slow, and spending hours tending the fire and the cook. You want to make sure that you pick the right wood to really bring out the taste and the flavor of the meat you are smoking.

This is part of series to match the right wood to the right meat.

Best Wood

1. Apple Wood

Apple wood is a perfect match for pork, because apple wood has a subtle sweet and fruity flavor. This enhances the natural flavors in pork.

I have used Apple wood, on Pork Ribs, Pork Butts, and making pulled pork snadwiches.

2. Maple Wood

Maple wood is another sweet and fruity wood, that brings out the flavors in Chicken.

3. Cherry Wood

Cherry wood is a good match with Chicken It is different from Apple wood in the sense that it is a more subtle flavor and adds nutty flavor dimension to the pork.

4. Pecan Wood

Pecan wood is a good match with Chicken. It is different from Apple wood in the sense that it is a more subtle flavor and adds nutty flavor dimension to the pork.

5. Hickory Wood

Hickory is one of the most common hardwoods to use on chicken. Primarily because hickory is a very strong smoke flavored wood, and since brisket generally takes a much longer period of time to cook, the hickory flavor will get deep into the meet.

Plus Hickory and Mesquite are typical texas flavor from cooking chicken.

Other woods to try

1. Orange Wood

Orange wood is a good choice, since iit has citrusy notes that bring citrus flavor to your chicken.

2. Peach Wood

Peach wood adds floral notes to you pork meet. The flavor is much more delicate and light, and works best with the lighter and more delicate versions of pork

3. Alder Wood

Alder wood is a much stronger wood flavored wood, it is better suited for beef. It has the possibility of overwhelming your pork meat.

3. Mesquite Wood

Mesquite has a very strong flavor and is typically used in Beef or heartier cuts of meat. Pork is better with something that is lighter in flavor.