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What's Your Favorite Flavor of Sawdust?

2K views 16 replies 17 participants last post by  EarlS 
#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Fellas, I gotta know. What is your favorite flavor of sawdust?
I don't mean smoking for a BBQ, I'm talking about when you're working and you accidentally get a little bit of that sweet sweet wood shaving in your mouth.

I prefer pine (no green treatment obviously)
 
#8 ·
Red Cedar dust makes my mouth tingle in a very bad way. Walnut, while I've come to associate it positively because I use it so often, is not the most pleasant stuff, taste-wise and health-wise. I turned some cherry a short while ago and it filled the shop with a powerful cherry smell, although the taste was NOT the same. I guess I'd say Maple since it's pretty neutral.
 
#11 ·
as for smell it would be cedar but i love the smell of pretty much all woods.as far as taste i prefer to not eat it so i keep my mouth shut.im like gene,i prefer a good steak.this is a strange question?
 
#16 · (Edited by Moderator)
Sassafras. SASSAFRAS. Oh Lord, give me SASSAFRAS!! If the aroma lasted, it would drive the species extinct. It is a plain but pleasant medium brown. For sassafras, I cast all 8 of my votes.

- Tod
I assume you are not aware of the toxicity of safrole, a component of the oils found in sassafras wood, especially the roots. Nasty stuff. A potential carcinogen.
 
#17 ·
I don't know about taste, but there are plenty of exotic woods that have nice aromas as they are being cut. Ziricote is not one of them - smells like cat piss. Of course a lot of them also are nasty if you inhale the dust.
 
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