- Oct 13, 2019
- 19
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Hello all!
New to the forums here. Been lurking around for a bit here recently as I was in the middle of deciding which path of smokers I wanted to go as this was a gift for my wife. She wants to learn to smoke. I ended up getting one of those:
Figured that most people are going three different ways. My wife didn't want gas smoker, pellets were a tad too high with some issues. So I ended up with this thing here from Lowes. Already got it assembled and fired it up for a few hours to get the chemicals off.
I read some threads on the forums here that focus how to smoke meats and such. I went with the lump coal. To my surprise, it does nicely compared to briquettes.
My question here is how does everyone handle their charcoal smoker? Do you light it up and throw some dry wood chips or do you soak them before hand? We want to get a good smokey flavor on our meats. My wife wants to pre-cook the food to reduce some time spent smoking for many hours. Just don't have all that time in the world.
Thanks!
New to the forums here. Been lurking around for a bit here recently as I was in the middle of deciding which path of smokers I wanted to go as this was a gift for my wife. She wants to learn to smoke. I ended up getting one of those:
Figured that most people are going three different ways. My wife didn't want gas smoker, pellets were a tad too high with some issues. So I ended up with this thing here from Lowes. Already got it assembled and fired it up for a few hours to get the chemicals off.
I read some threads on the forums here that focus how to smoke meats and such. I went with the lump coal. To my surprise, it does nicely compared to briquettes.
My question here is how does everyone handle their charcoal smoker? Do you light it up and throw some dry wood chips or do you soak them before hand? We want to get a good smokey flavor on our meats. My wife wants to pre-cook the food to reduce some time spent smoking for many hours. Just don't have all that time in the world.
Thanks!