Charcoal & Wood Chips

Hickory runs bold and doesn’t apologize for it — good for beef and pork, too much for fish. Apple burns mild and clean. Cherry splits the difference and puts color on the bark that looks like you know what you’re doing. Charcoal, pellets, and smoke chips each do a specific job, and Nixa Hardware & Seed Co stocks all three. Briquettes hold heat longer than lump but burn less clean. Stocking a couple of options means the fuel follows the cook, not the other way around.