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Originally Posted by TheRiddick
As for the "cleanliness" of the smoke, or more specifically, color of it, I thought color mostly depends on the amount of (remaining) water in the wood? "Greener" wood leads to darker smoke?
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That's part of it, but mostly it's a function of the completeness of the combustion plus the sap burning. Green wood = doesn't burn well for various reasons = incomplete combustion + sap burnoff = darker smoke.
I can take very well seasoned wood and create dark smoke by choking the combustion.
In an electric smoker, you can get a dark and/or heavy smoke because the wood smoulders rather than burns. Smouldering being an incomplete combustion, and as stated previously there are factors that can make it worse.
Unfortuantely, dark is kind of ambiguious.