What is the best wood for smoking ham?

There is no best. It depends on what you're trying to do. That said, fruit is the most popular.

Pork=fruit wood
Beef=oak, hickory
Chicken=maple
Lamb=fruit wood
Oak works well with everything except veggies, use fruit.

>>21395774 (OP)
pecan/oak combo is good for literally anything

>>21395791
>Beef=oak, hickory
I enjoy a steak from time to time but the flavour beef, lamb and venison get from smoking just doesn't generally sit well with me. Maybe it's the hickory. I've never smoked beef myself and have only had it in the form of American hot dogs and American barbecue and I like neither. Beef bacon is pretty good, though. Have you smoked beef yourself?
>Chicken=maple
I've used oak. You forgot to mention fish. I only ever smoked fish with beech. Pork gets the most variety of woods. I've used pretty much everything you can think of to smoke pork.

>>21395857
Literally noone is smoking steak.

>>21395858
Yeah, but they're smoking beef ribs and brisket, neither of which are things I enjoy.

>>21395860
>>21395857
>>21395791
Anyone who doesn't smoke steak with a fruit would like apple shouldn't be eating steak at all

>>21395774 (OP)
I never smoked or grilled ham, but I use pecan wood for everything. Take my trailer up the highway and grab a quarter cord every year.

>>21395774 (OP)
Apple for pork
Pecan for beef

>>21396149
You don't know what smoking is.

>>21395774 (OP)
Traditional is hickory.
I prefer pecan as it is a little less smokey. But you can also use fruit woods like apple or peach as well with good results. When I make bacon or back bacon I tend to use maple.

>>21395858
No. But you can cook over mesquite for a kiss of flavor.

>>21396162
Pecan is pretty much the universal wood. It's good on almost everything.

>>21396228
only real smokeheads know this truth

>>21395774 (OP)
Applewood or hickory
Any other meat is mesquite.

It doesn't matter the type of wood. If Brazilian rosewood were easier to come by, every bbq enthusiast would be using it, and lunch meat in grocery stores would be "rosewood smoked" with an image of a Fender Strat on the package. Every smoked bbq you've had was smoked using whatever trees were nearby.