Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance the
flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
TIA - Dave

>Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance the
>flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
>TIA - Dave
>

Yup.

You can buy cast iron boxes, or just wrap in foil.

-Zz

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:42:38 +0100, "Dasco" >
wrote:

>Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance the
>flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
>TIA - Dave
>

Yes, you sure can! (finally, a question this newbie can answer, though
others will have more details)

Some gas grills come with smoke boxes--mine doesn't have one, so I
have a cast iron smoke box I bought separately. I understand you can
also just soak the wood chips in water then wrap them in aluminum foil
and poke holes in the foil.

Not a perfect fix, of course, and it's something I'll have to play
with more to get better results.

Desideria

Dasco wrote:
> Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance the
> flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
> TIA - Dave
>
>
Hi Dave,

I used to use wood chips soaked in water for half an hour in a metal
smoker box on the hot side of the gas grill. The nice regulars here
turned me on to using unsoaked chunks wrapped in aluminum foil with a
few small holes punched in the foil.

I have to say that the chunk method provides much better smoke both for
flavor and cooking.

We have a 6 burner grill. I light the two rightmost burners and put the
foil-wrapped chunks over the heat. I put my meat on the left side with
foil under it (keeps the grill cleaner). I've had great success with
ribs, chicken and spatchcocked (butterflied) cornish hens so far. One of
these days, I'm going to try a small pork butt.

--
Janet Wilder
Bad spelling. Bad punctuation
Good Friends. Good Life

"Desideria" > wrote in message
...
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:42:38 +0100, "Dasco" >
> wrote:
>
>>Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance
>>the
>>flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
>>TIA - Dave
>>
>
> Yes, you sure can! (finally, a question this newbie can answer, though
> others will have more details)
>
> Some gas grills come with smoke boxes--mine doesn't have one, so I
> have a cast iron smoke box I bought separately. I understand you can
> also just soak the wood chips in water then wrap them in aluminum foil

DON'T soak them.

> and poke holes in the foil.
>
> Not a perfect fix, of course, and it's something I'll have to play
> with more to get better results.
>
> Desideria

Other than that one point, you're right on target.
I can't get my neighbor to give up his gasser, but I have finally gotten him
to give up the wet wood.

BOB

"Janet Wilder" > wrote in message
...
> Dasco wrote:
>> Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance
>> the flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
>> TIA - Dave
> Hi Dave,
>
> I used to use wood chips soaked in water for half an hour in a metal
> smoker box on the hot side of the gas grill. The nice regulars here


> turned me on to using *unsoaked* chunks wrapped in aluminum foil with a

Janet, PLEASE repeat this several times for those that still like to boil
their wood.


> few small holes punched in the foil.
>
> I have to say that the chunk method provides much better smoke both for
> flavor and cooking.
>
> We have a 6 burner grill. I light the two rightmost burners and put the
> foil-wrapped chunks over the heat. I put my meat on the left side with
> foil under it (keeps the grill cleaner). I've had great success with ribs,
> chicken and spatchcocked (butterflied) cornish hens so far. One of these
> days, I'm going to try a small pork butt.

Pork butt is much easier than ribs or Cornish hens/yard bird. Just takes a
little longer. Don't get one that's too small, it'll be more susceptible to
drying out (less fat to begin with).

BOB

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:09:01 -0400, " BOB" > wrote:

>
>"Desideria" > wrote in message
.. .
>> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:42:38 +0100, "Dasco" >
>> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi - Please excuse the newbie question: Can I use wood chips to enhance
>>>the
>>>flavour of food, using a gas barbeque without coals or lava rock?
>>>TIA - Dave
>>>
>>
>> Yes, you sure can! (finally, a question this newbie can answer, though
>> others will have more details)
>>
>> Some gas grills come with smoke boxes--mine doesn't have one, so I
>> have a cast iron smoke box I bought separately. I understand you can
>> also just soak the wood chips in water then wrap them in aluminum foil
>
>DON'T soak them.

I thought folks here had said "don't soak them" before, but couldn't
remember for sure. Thanks!


>
>Other than that one point, you're right on target.
>I can't get my neighbor to give up his gasser, but I have finally gotten him
>to give up the wet wood.

(smile) Thanks again, BOB!!

"Desideria" > wrote in message
news
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:09:01 -0400, " BOB" > wrote:
>
>>DON'T soak them.
>
> I thought folks here had said "don't soak them" before, but couldn't
> remember for sure. Thanks!
>
>
>>
>>Other than that one point, you're right on target.
>>I can't get my neighbor to give up his gasser, but I have finally gotten
>>him
>>to give up the wet wood.
>
> (smile) Thanks again, BOB!!
We'll forgive you this once since you're fairly new to this game. '-)

Look what I found...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv7y1TWyKEw

BOB