A New Spin on Soaking Wood Question

[gnubee]

I was watching some Dude on the cooking channel . He was using a foil packet for his wood chips. He used 1/2 dry chips and 1/2 wet chips. Placing the Wet chips on one side of the packet and the dry chips on the other. He claimed he got a much longer smoking time out of the packet. Thus it allowed him to only need one packet for the entire smoke.

It made a certain kind of sense to me. Almost like a minion method for wood chips.

Has anybody else done this??

 

[figjam]

No, but it makes sense. The dry chips burn up first, and the wet chips wait until the moisture has evaporated out before they start to smoke and burn up.

 

[coyote-1]

When I use chips I soak them overnight, and scatter them throughout the coal basket. The water in the chips has to evaporate before they burn.

So two things happen:
a) some of that evaporated moisture comes to the meat and helps keep it moist
AND
b) The chips don't burn away as rapidly, therefore increasing smoke time.

Yeah, it makes a great deal of sense.

 

[pineywoods]

I sometimes place soaked and non soaked chips in the chip pan and I think it does make the smoke last longer