{"id":1484,"date":"2022-01-10T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.timbergadgets.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2022-01-10T18:39:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T18:39:20","slug":"hickory-firewood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timbergadgets.com\/hickory-firewood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hickory Firewood: How Good Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hickory is excellent firewood. It closely competes with black locust firewood for its burning qualities, due to its dense hardwood that burns long and has high heat output<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It produces excellent quality coals. Because of this, you can rely on it for long cold nights. Its exceptional performance is that it smells very nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are to smoke meat and barbecues, hickory is an excellent choice. Its wood is used for smoking and adds a sweet, pungent flavor to the meat.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowingly, hickory is a wide group of trees and has around 18 species, of which, 12 are cultivated in the United States. This kind of hardwood is used to make handles for the tools because of its strong, flexible wood and great shock-absorbing properties<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Its heat production is even higher than oak. However, it is difficult to split and takes almost a year to lose enough moisture to be burned. Moreover, it gives low smoke and few sparks. One cord of hickory weighs heavier, even among the hardwood species. It has a low sap level especially as compared to softwood-like pine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, hickory belongs to the walnut family and produces edible nuts. It has compound leaves and grows as a tall deciduous tree that likes to grow in low areas beside the river or wet places. As soon as it touches the ground, the wood is prone to decay. So, it should be seasoned at the earliest and consumed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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