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Food Smoking Wood Chips

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Wood Chips for Food Smoking

Choose from these food smoking wood chips to add a delicious flavour to your BBQ. Place the chips directly on your fire, or make a foil pouch with a small hole in, which allows the smoke to escape. You can use these smoke chips with any barbecue be it gas, electric or charcoal. You will get the best results with a purpose built food smoker and a stainless steel smoker box or cast iron smoker pot. Are you looking for wood chips for a stovetop smoker?
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Wood Flavour Chart

Wood Type	Smoking Wood Flavours
Alder	Alder wood smoke has a delicate sweet flavour. Great with fish, pork, poultry, and game birds.
Almond	Almond has a sweet smoke flavour. Good for smoking all types of meat.
Apple	Apple smoke is very mild with a subtle fruity flavour and slightly sweet. Excellent for smoking poultry and pork. Turns chicken skin that tasty brown colour.
Ash	Ash has a light but distinctive smoke flavour. Good with fish and red meats.
Birch	Birch smoke flavour is similar to maple. Good for smoking pork and poultry.
Cherry	Cherry is one of the most popular wood flavours. Great with with poultry, pork and beef.
Grape	Grape smoke has tart flavour. Produces a lot of rich and fruity smoke. Best with with poultry, red meats, game and lamb.
Hickory	Hickory smoke is by far the most popular for smoking food. It benefits from a sweet to strong, heavy bacon flavour. Good with pork, ham and beef.
Maple	Maple wood smoke has a smoky, mellow and slightly sweet flavour. Good with pork, poultry and cheese.
Mesquite	Mesquite smoke has a strong flavour. Good with beef, fish, chicken, and game. Mesquite wood burn very hot.
Mulberry	Mulberry wood smoke has a smell like apple. Works well with pork poultry and fish.
Oak	Oak is the most popular wood for smoking. Great for smoking ribs. Good with red meat, pork, fish and game.
Orange	Orange has a mild smoky flavour. Ideal for smoking beef, pork, fish and poultry.
Pear	Pear has a subtle smoke flavour a bit like apple. Excellent for smoking chicken and pork.
Pecan	Pecan has a sweet, but mild smoke flavour similar to hickory. Good for smoking poultry, beef, pork and cheese.
Plum	Plum has a mild smoke flavour. Great for smoking white or pink meats, including chicken, turkey, pork and fish.
Walnut	Very heavy smoke, usually mixed with lighter woods like almond, pear or apple. Can be bitter if used alone. Good with red meats and game.

The different types of wood used to smoke food

There are various types of wood used to smoke your food which will mainly depend on the device you are using.

Wood chips and wood pellets are the most common and are used with larger smokers e.g. Frontier, Amigo, Brinkmann Smoke n Grill etc. It is best to use them in a smoker box which allows the wood chips to smolder and therefore produces a constant stream of rich smoke. Can also be used on a gas BBQ with a domed lid.

Wood Granules are used with the Cameron stovetop smoker or the Anuka electric smoker. These wood granules produce less smoke and smolder at lower temperatures which is more suitable to indoor smoking.

Wood chunks are with larger smokers e.g. Amigo, Frontier and Brinkmann smokers and are usually placed directly on the fire. They can be soaked in water before use which will allow them to burn for longer.

Please note using treated wood or wood that you are not able to establish its origin can be a health hazzard. Treated wood will give toxic fumes and should be avoided. Some woods like willow and pine are in themselves toxic and should not be used for food smoking.

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