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Default Help with a Pork Butt

Janet Wilder wrote:

> Nick Cramer wrote:
>
>> Janet Wilder > wrote:
>>
>>> [ . . . ]
>>> I smoke things on a (horrors) gas grill over indirect heat using soaked
>>> chips in a cast iron smoker box. I'm seriously thinking of "liberating"
>>> that smoker from her one of these days ,vbg>

>>
>>
>> Hi Janet,
>>
>> As previously mentioned, I think you'll be much more pleased if you wrap
>> dry chips in a foil packet with a couple of holes poked in it, rather
>> than
>> soaking them.
>>

> I would try that in the neighbor's smoker, but not in my gas grill. I
> think the dry chips would catch fire over the heated side of the gas
> grill even wrapped in foil.
>


Instead of chips, wrap chunks tightly in foil and position them where
the heat is just right. They don't catch fire and they last longer.

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