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It’s unlikely that smoke has anti-fungal properties, short of treatment with creosote.

• inhumantsar 3y ago
  People have been preserving food with smoke, likely since before agriculture. More recently phenols in wood smoke have been shown to have antimicrobial and antifungal properties. Eg: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37152755/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37152755/ Stands to reason that any culture which smokes food to preserve it might try fumigating with it
  • xattt 3y ago
    Treatment of food by smoke is done before a pathogen has a chance to proliferate. If a fungus sets into wood, and smoke treatment is done after the fact, the smoke won’t be able to penetrate deep enough to completely eradicate something that’s well established.
    • jvanderbot 3y ago
      I bet burning the wood to ash would do it. After all that's the subject of article