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In Europe, alder is the traditional smoking wood, but oak is more often used now, and beech to a lesser extent.

In North America, hickory, mesquite, oak, pecan, alder, maple, and fruit-tree woods, such as apple, cherry, and plum, are commonly used for smoking.

Other fuels besides wood can also be employed, sometimes with the addition of flavoring ingredients.

Chinese tea-smoking uses a mixture of uncooked rice, sugar, and tea, heated at the base of a wok.

Some North American ham and bacon makers smoke their products over burning corncobs.

Peat is burned to dry and smoke the barley malt used to make whisky and some beers.

In New Zealand, sawdust from the native manuka ( tea tree ) is commonly used for hot smoking fish.

In Iceland, dried sheep dung is used to cold-smoke fish, lamb, mutton, and whale.