I won't talk about it. All I will say is, I enjoyed the Hickory smoked flavor of food that was warmed in the oven over the next month or so after that day. . . . wifey did not!
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What % of Weight is Water in Green Hickory
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I won't talk about it. All I will say is, I enjoyed the Hickory smoked flavor of food that was warmed in the oven over the next month or so after that day. . . . wifey did not!
You should have just told her that the smell must have been from the pulled pork sandwich you reheated.
For a couple of years I passed off the fine yellow dust in the house as pine pollen, even in the winter. Not sure how she figuered out it was dust from sanding osage. My daughter probably squeeled on me.
Are you suggesting the experience was sorta like making popcorn without the benefit of a containment device?
Funny you should mention popcorn.
I was careful used low power levels, and short time cycles. Everything was progressing as good as I had imagined. I just kept the wood hot enough for steam to escape from the ends of the stave. When I noticed a wonderful, buttered popcorn aroma coming from the oven, I checked the wood and very little steam was escaping. At this point I figured the wood was very close to oven dry, so I gave it one last little blast to finish it up as I stepped out of the room for a second. That's when the damn thing spontaneously combusted!
So, if anyone ever takes it upon themselves to nuke a piece of green Hickory, STOP when you smell popcorn!!
This is what I did. I weighed one of the tension wood staves, it came in at 8.56 lbs. I then put it behind the woodstove in late December. I totally expected it to check and split like crazy in a few weeks, but it remained very stable while it lost moisture with only very light checking. I weighed the stave weekly to check the drying progress. In the first couple of weeks it lost weight quickly, but then slowed, at this point I placed the stave on the cooler edge of the stove where it would be warmed. The stave slowly continued to lose weight until a few weeks ago, at that point I was sure it was oven dry, with a final weight of 5.91 lbs., for a weight loss on nearly 31%! (if my math is correct). I have a Tommy Axe head that is calling to me, and I can't wait to work with this amazing piece of tension wood to make it a haft!
Wow! That lost a bit of moisture. I had no idea it would be that much.