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Brian Nystrom
 
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Default can I use pine for steambended ribs?

Tim W wrote:
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[...]. Can I steambend and use the pine[...]

The structure of softwood is such that it simply does not steambend.


Ahem, cedar is a softwood and steam bends well. [...]



I could have been wrong. I wonder what I meant to say.


I wouldn't say you're wrong. Some cedars bend OK when green or air
dried, but none of them bend as well as hardwoods like oak and ash. Kiln
dried cedar doesn't bend worth a damn.