Simple! The flavor of any tree is in the Metabolites or cambium layer of the growing tree. This means that all BBQ pellets made from residual sawdust as a by-product are generally comprised of the core kiln dried wood.  For example, the sawdust from a hickory furniture or hammer handle factory is void of flavor or has only a very weak carryover from the growth in the cambium layer. When the old timers smoked meat and fish they did not take the bark off the wood they gathered for this very same reason. We are a round log plant which means we harvest actual trees and chip them up as green chips, with full flavor to make our BBQ pellets. We all work hard for our money and we expect the best product we can buy for our dollars, not some inexpensive to manufacture product, that is nothing more than a low flavor gimmick product.

Don’t get confused
When we say we debark the red oak base material on our blends, we do this for a very specific reason. It costs extra money to do this step. Because the smoke flavor you’re looking for and expecting is in the bark, we take the bark off the oak so it allows the full rich flavor of the primary wood to come through, such as Hickory in the Hickory blend or Apple in the Apple blend. This allows us to have the strongest flavor in our blends! All of our 100% varieties are full flavor and all logs are picked logs, not dragged logs, so no dirt has accumulated to create clinkers in the ash.