I would start chunking some in there now and see how it smells. I have used some real fresh cut stuff and it was wonderful as it was. If for some reason it smells stinky wait 30 days and try it again. I accidentally kilt one with a weed wacker one day and burned it that night. Now if that some kinda offset dont use the apple for the entire heat source..just toss in a little on the charcoal base fire. That apple is too special to be wasting it to heat up the atmosphere. Get Algore riled up too. You heard of that old global warming thang no doubt. Guess that is whut is causing all the blizzards in exotic locations.
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