devolutionist
Meat Mopper
I'm w/Pacman on this - I use both, and for two reasons:
1) soaked chips can be used to help calm down a hot fire
2) dry chips can be used to stagger your smoke - the dry ones will go up first, and the soaked ones will take longer to smoke. instead of having smoke output that goes up and down, if you mix a little dry with wet ones it'll start smoking quick and keep smoke output more even until the wet ones are ashed.
As seen already here, there's a LOT of personal preference that goes into it. Probalby has more to do with getting to know your smoker and what works best with it. Hard to lay down any general rules on this topic.
1) soaked chips can be used to help calm down a hot fire
2) dry chips can be used to stagger your smoke - the dry ones will go up first, and the soaked ones will take longer to smoke. instead of having smoke output that goes up and down, if you mix a little dry with wet ones it'll start smoking quick and keep smoke output more even until the wet ones are ashed.
As seen already here, there's a LOT of personal preference that goes into it. Probalby has more to do with getting to know your smoker and what works best with it. Hard to lay down any general rules on this topic.
