Adding wood to your fire is the only way to get thetrue smoke flavorin your smoker. Whether you have anelectric, gas, or charcoal smoker, you can add wood for the authentic barbecue flavor. Fortunately,wood chipsand wood chunks come prepackaged for your convenience, but which should you use?
There is a lot of debate about soaking wood chips for smoking and wood chunks for grilling. Soaking the wood in water can help keep the wood from catching on fire and helps to make the wood last longer. Wood can also be soaked in wine, whiskey, beer and other fluids to add flavor. ...
For charcoal grilling I prefer natural lump charcoal-made from pure wood and recognizable by its irregular shaped chunks-to briquettes. This is a natural product, containing no additives or fillers. Look for it at grill shops and natural foods stores ...
how - to; FIRED UP; Cooking with wood - chips, chunks, planks, whatever - is the newest, and oldest, trick in the grilling book.(SOURCE)Ward, Bill
WatchBBQ Hall of Famer Meatheadcompare the various forms of charcoal. Binchotan, for example, burns more evenly and hotter than wood. He also demonstrates how to work with wood logs, chunks, untreated oak flooring, wood chips (which cook quickly), compressed sawdust bricks, and compressed sawd...