Soo, not trying to be a snob or anything but it seems like paint is not what you want on wood that you plan to use for smoking food. đ€·
Just picked this up from home Depot, dang jealous devil. You did me dirty. Definitely the same wood as the rest that's in the box. No paint on the box or any of the other pieces.
by Pork_Confidence
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Just use a saw to cut off the 1/4 inch of painted wood. Doesnât really seem like a big deal.
Is that just scrap lumber?
You got scrap lumber w some paint on it. Hopefully its untreated wood. You can just split that edge off and it will be as fine as the rest of the scrap lumber
One place I buy wood from puts a small spot of paint to distinguish different chunks of wood.. I donât think this is that though
Pro tip, find the closest feed store, if possible, and buy your smoking wood from there. In my experience they have better wood and itâs cheaper than anywhere else Iâve gotten it from. Think I pay like $25 for a layer of wood from the pallet, can usually get 2-4 smokes depending what is in the smoker.
So âhotter than hellâ the wood turned red!!
What kind of wood is that.. looks like the oak scraps i have at my place
Jealous devils lump charcoal seems ok, but all their other products are pretty shit. Clearly dressing up scrap garbage as food grade fuel. I would return that box.
Home Depot has a generous return policy. I wouldnât trust this product after seeing this. Thatâs just me though
Spicy!
Hope you kept the receipt
…It said wood blocks on the box, What did you expect?
Just use it. That little paint will literally do nothing.
Is this that hot log they used in back to the future 3
Thatâs nice wood you donât deserve it.
Better than the fiberglass and shit that comes in Royal Oak charcoal
Jealous devil smoking wood was horrible in my experience. Weber smoking chunks are much better if you can’t get local wood instead.
Using painted splits really adds to bark development. and enhances the color of the cut like you wouldnât believe. /s
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I have a heavy timber saw mill around the corner from my house. They sell slab wood for $30.00 a bundle
giving them the MAXIMUM benefit of the doubt, paint can be nearly anything that leaves a trace but holy god they are making it hard to not look like that.
I bought a box of that garbage a couple months ago. Got home and opened it, turned around and went back to return it.
What garbage
You guys gonna stop buying shit like Jealous Devil, etc. B&B only, forever, all day, every day. The quality is completely unrivaled. I’ve never had any of these sorts of issues like this from their products
The logs from back to the future 3?
They couldnât just grind it up into pellets like everybody else does with scrap lumber?
I get as many trim ends as I want from work and you paid for them.
RIP Frootawood
How much are these guys charging for sawed up pallets?
I mean, I had some unfinished oak floors installed and you can technically use those offcuts to smoke food with, though it does feel forbidden.
Well crap. Thatâs what I can do with all the trimmings from the hardwood floor?
Some industrial shop by me has a free pallet sign up 24/7. Or⊠go buy this!
Ah… chop it off with a hatchet, what’s the big deal?
What are pallets made of? I thought pine…?
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Here’s a picture of the box
As others have said, this looks to me like scrap from a wood shop. Looks like it is maybe 8/4 oak thatâs been through a planer. Then what you have here are the end bits that were cut off longer boards to make a table or whatever they were building. The paint is used in the lumber yard to mark stacks of boards.
I wouldnât worry too much about it, but probably not a bad idea to split it off, though Iâm not sure if I would bother personally.
Source: I get a fair bit of my smoking wood from my woodworking projects.
Could be wrong but thatâs what it looks like to me.
If I bought this I would be annoyed by the paint and probably wouldnât buy that brand again but nothing to worry too much about.
Edit: wording
So I make furniture and buy wood from a local saw mill. The other day I was there and he showed me an entire cherry tree worth of wood he cut that ended up being a bad tree and it twisted and split when it dried and was all trash. He offered to give as much as I could take for free for firewood because it saved him money hauling it to the dump. That type of thing happens and some trees aren’t good for anything other than burning, so worth checking and making some contacts with some local sawmills if you want cheap or free wood. Might not be the most convenient for you since you’d have to saw and split it but it’s better than this over priced box of offcuts.
Be easy, It will burn off before you get your smoker hot enough to cook on. It is likely from a pile marked with paint or it is from a hardwood pallet.