smoking with maple?

[mikeSF]

TVA dropped some maple trees in the neighbors yard. I grabbed a small load and am wondering if this wood is OK to smoke chicken once it's dried? thanks!

maple1 by mikesgm, on Flickr

[mikeky]

curious as well

[denraytay]

my understanding is yes. I have used some silver maple at the end of cooks after all the smoke penetration is done.

[Keystonekiller]

Use it all the time from the store... May not be the exact same kind of maple... I mix it with Apple also.. it's my favorite combo

[Clif Kincaid]

I thought sugar maple was the maple to only use.

[basscla]

I buy maple wood chunks and really like it. Chicken and ribs were good with the maple wood.

[Ben Danbleume]

I've used hard maple and prefer it to the softer maple varieties.