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| - With the amount of chopped wood here I can definitely imagine Paul Bunyan running this shop with his trusty blue ox Babe. Nestled just past the Tempe border into Guadalupe, the lot is essentially a giant storage facility for all the great varieties they offer. Whether you want wood for your fireplace, campsite, or some nice chunks for smoking meats, you'll find some high quality goods to take home.
When you enter the lot, off to the sides you'll see two gigantic piles. On one side is a pile of various shaped branches and thinner pieces of wood called "camp wood" and on the other side is a neatly stacked pile of more uniform logs. Prices for large orders and bags and bags of wood chunks for smoking are posted and lined right outside the shop. I loved how there were so many varieties of wood available. Some examples include pistachio, almond, mesquite, cherry, apple, oak, and pecan. After talking a bit with the gentleman manning the store he mentioned that the most popular wood used here in restaurants was the pecan but the cherry was one of their best woods for smoking (The owner personally uses cherry for BBQ). I was very intrigued by the more rare woods (Almond and pistachio) and he recommended the pistachio mixed in with a second wood. The bag of pistachio was $30 and it is listed as 1.2 cubic feet but it seemed a lot bigger to me. To be honest every time I look at the bag it looks even bigger than I imagine it to be lol. The chunks themselves were a very generous size.
We looked for some lump charcoal too but they only sell mesquite lump (I prefer oak).
Service was very helpful and friendly and the gentleman I spoke with was very knowledgeable about their different smoking woods.
I'm excited to fire up the BBQ to get smoking meat again! If only the weather will cool down so I don't melt while I'm outside. I'll be back for sure because I want to get some more chunks once I use up some of my existing supply.
Thanks for an excellent experience, Paul Bunyan & friends!
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