Professional pitmasters order their wood by the cord, but us backyard cooks don’t usually need that much to smoke a brisket. Besides, flavoring your steaks and burgers with a little wood smoke doesn’t even require a log. Chunks of hardwood and even wood chips work better on a grill, and Texas-based W W Wood Inc. packages them all. You’ve likely seen their bags of Western Premium BBQ Products in the grocery store, right above the bags charcoal, but maybe you didn’t realize that the product grew from a one-man operation in South Texas. When Jerry Lawson started his business in 1986, he sold hickory and mesquite logs to locals around Pleasanton, just south of San Antonio. The W W Wood business still occupies the same plot of land…View Original Post
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