THE Best Smelling Firewoods (4 Categories of Campfire Bliss)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ธ.ค. 2020
- In this video, we have a campfire chat about the BEST smelling firewoods. I break this down into 4 main categories, and at the end of the video, I reveal my personal favorite firewood for campfire aromas.
You can find a written blog post that covers similar information on my blog at: burlybeaver.com/best-smelling...
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It's interesting how destinctive you are depicting your favorite tree flavors. You really know and love what you do.
Thanks for your videos
BTW my favorite is white birch flavor
Cherry, eastern red cedar, and pine for me in that order. Good videos! Keep them coming!
Wonderful descriptions 😋
1. Hickory
2. Oak
3. Mesquite
4. Cherry
5. Apple
6. Pear
7. Walnut
8. Pecan
9. Pine
10. Cedar
Love cedar and the beautiful wood colors. Also the bark is a good starter.
Great videos! Thank you Burly Beaver.
I just got into cutting firewood and im a new home/acre owner. There was this day where I found some rotted planks that turned out to be cedar, and one day i was pulling branches off a felled tree, without realizing it was entirely cedar, and i was so hyped to have a butt load of cedar to work through just cause of the smell. Definitely something that's made me like being outside more is just having the cedar aroma.
Ash! It's kinda sweet, kinda dusty, hard to describe- but it's my favorite. Birch is right up there as well. Obviously, apple, cherry, and pine are in there, too. Sugar maple is another good smeller.
Never had Sassafras, but I'd like to get some. I hear it smells like root beer. (not surprising- it's what root beer was originally made from, and what they are trying to imitate)
Here in southern Ohio/northern Kentucky, I love hickory. It always reminds me of being at mamaw and papaws on a cold Christmas Day. They heated the whole house with a wood stove in the basement. They wouldn’t hardly have to turn the furnace on because of the stove! Hickory wood burning brings back those childhood memories!
Piñon is the best for campfires but I love oak that we have here in California for sure. I call it cowboy incense. Piñon is really special though and also burns like a hardwood so it’s way better than pine overall.
I love the smell of conifers (while alive and while burning). My favorite is Balsam Fir. Smells fresh and always reminds me of Christmas.
So rosemary has invaded my garden over the past couple decades. I use long dried branches of rosemary as kindling. That aroma hits really well, albeit short. I like finding ironwood when I get mixed firewood delivered. It's kinda rare in my region, but ironwood smells really good and it's super dense and long lasting. Bush honeysuckle is an invasive species and has a sweet floral scent. It also makes great kindling because the bark is flakey.
Pecan- Very surgary and sweet. Great smell, but no greater taste. Cedar reminds me of cinnamon.
I personally love sugar maple
Very informative. Thanks.
My favorite is Guava for BbQing...smells great. Not really used for firewood, but it’s a great smell.
Hey - that’s interesting. Thanks for the comment!
One of my favorites is "ironwood" aka hornbeam. That stuff smells fantastic. I agree cherry and cedar. But to get a great non popping hot burning fire than ironwood has to be right there on top.
Here in California we have alot of almond wood, that smells good as well. I do like eucalyptus although it is a very strong smell. Great video and great topic!
Where in God's name do you find Eucalyptus, in Cali??? I bet that stuff is like gasoline, I know the leaves burn like mad when they dry up.
@@Tadders It's all over, it was brought over from Australia and planted all over the state, you can find it anywhere besides high elevation. I heard it was planted in order to get a hardwood that would grow fast and be used as railroad ties but the wood is too twisted for any decent length lumber.
@@Tadders It's a very underrated firewood, it is very hot, and is quite dense, it has a great amount of BTUs. It also leaves barely any ash or coals. One of the problems is it takes a good couple of years to season properly, it is very oil heavy wood, plus it can be very difficult to split when dry, as it dries the wood grain twist together and it's like splitting concrete.
@@VODZ that sounds awful. I'd like to try splitting some someday. Can't be as bad as Elm, but at least there's a payoff with Eucalyptus having such high BTUs. I have a hard time lighting hard maple and oak. I bet Eucalyptus lights up much easier with all the oils compared to other hardwoods.
@@Tadders I do tree cutting so I get pretty much free firewood from work for free ya should try and ask the tree cutters they usually happy to give you it to lighten the load for the sump
I'll chime in for the Pacific NW. Cherry is my fave for steak but also works for oysters and steamer clams. Salmon calls for alder.
Classic campfire would be Douglas Fir with the treat in finding some alder or cedar. I moved to the Ozarks so I'm looking forward to sassafras. I have no idea what it is but something I cut into smells like pickles!! They have an evergreen around here that is Cedar x 2 when you cut into it.
Honey Locust smells like pickles and tomatoes. If the wood is reddish orange, with yellow sapwood, and hard as rock- it's honey locust. The color is very distinctive- as is the smell. LOTS of heat in it.
Black cherry smells the best just after it's been split and stacked it gives off a wonderful fragrance, but I've never had a fragrance from black cherry while it's burning. The only really outstanding fragrance I find is from Yellow Birch. Sometimes the hemlock can smell pretty good as well.
My favorite is Douglas fir! It smells like Christmas
Nice - and speaking of which, Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Jon! And Happy New Year!
I definitely enjoy pine and cedar
Gday, I have a wood here in vic au that I have been splitting.
Everytime I split it, it bursts with a sweet bubblegum smell. It's a dead ringer for hubba-bubba (child's chewing gum here) that I remember.
It has a grain that zig zags as it goes up left to right at 1 cm across with intervals the same. The bark on 16 inch rounds is 1 inch thick w texture of victorian iron bark but light brown colours instead of the black/grey that is typical of iron bark. The wood is a yellow colour.
I know it is an Aussie wood but I was hoping you might know what it is?
It burns with just as sweet a smell.
very accurate! i love cherry.
Why did you save crisp conifers till the end?? I'm in suspense! Haha. But seriously, I'm gonna make sure to get some hickory or cherry wood pellets next time so I can get a classic smoke smell. And I'm curious about cherry. I'm using apple wood pellets currently in my wood pellet pizza oven.
So that you’d watch the whole video :p
Apple is a classic, but
I feel like Cherry might be really good with Pizza. I haven’t tried it myself, just a hunch. And maybe hickory would be good with “heartier” toppings, possibly including a BBQ sauce topped pizza (if that’s the kind of thing you’re into).
My favorite by a long shot is juniper, nothing else smells like it that I've tried
Black Cherry by far the best. Also, Lilac can smell like lilac flowers when it burns. Mountain ash smells like spices (cinnamon and nutmeg).
I just hacked out a 60 year old lilac with about 5 inch stalks and was going to pitch it until I read your comment. Any tips on how long to season?
I go into an anaphylaxis reaction when i breathe cedar burning; rash when touched. Lol. You're favorite would be deadly for me.
Pecan is my favorite firewood and smoking wood
Thank you
another one to try is Mulberry wood it has a great smoke for meats and smell
Thank you, I've got a big mulberry in my front yard, will keep that in mind if we ever need to take it down.
Sassafras smells pretty good too. Burns fast like paper, but smells decent.
I just cut one and it smells a bit like root beer
Apple is my favorite!
I wish I understood why burning wood & leaves smells so good
I don't see a lot of the great fragrance coming from the mentioned trees from the Northeast us. Some of those smell nice by themselves, but burning them does not bring out all these wonderful fragrances that everyone is mentioning here. From what I can tell though, I've never seen hickory or pecan. The only one I really appreciate is yellow Birch and that one is fantastic when it's burning but has no fragrance when it's split. Unless you have some branches around that that can sometimes smell like Wintergreen if they're small branches.
Douglas fir is probably the best smelling wood in my opinion
Piñon is so good.
Cedar elm smells fantastic
Yellow Birch
What's a great wood to grill steaks over?
Probably Oak, and maybe Hickory, depending on the flavor you’re going for. That’s my guess, though I wouldn’t call myself an expert on smoking meat and that sort of thing.
Grilling steaks - mesquite (burns hotter)
Smoking steaks - oak
New video idea.. the most beautiful floors... Cherry wins! Hickory a close 2nd.
Lol - I love it.
Walnut lol
What about apple wood?
Definitely Hickory...
red oak?
Doug fir and larch are the best smelling
Sandalwood
Pecan has a menthol smell
Pinion Wood.
FYI.. it’s PA-KAAN.
Yes, Pee-caan does not do it justice.
The worst is elm and sycamore
Incense cedar
I thought elm was the best smelling! 😂😂
Only one correction. Pecan is pronounced pee can not pee con.
Lol - I’ve heard this one both ways. I’ve always said pecOn, but could just be a regional thing.
What kind of oak? Because Red Oak smells awful, man.
I guess it’d be White Oak, which is used to make Whiskey barrels or for smoking meat.
Yup, white oak for smoking, red oak for heat.
Actually post oak for smoking meat granted that is white oak