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Use BBQ Wood Chips to Intensify Your Grilling

Take a tip from the experts: use BBQ wood chips to spice up your grilling. If you’re a master BBQ chef, then you probably know the fine benefits of BBQ wood chips. However, lots of people don’t have a clue why this product is so popular.

Wood chips are very small pieces of wood that are added to your BBQ to create smoke. If you’re not already using wood to cook your food, the only way you’re going to get true smoke flavor is to add wood to your grill fire.

BBQ wood chips take your grilling to a whole new level. Whether you have an electric, gas or charcoal BBQ you can add wood chips to get authentic barbecue flavor. There are special smoker boxes that can be placed in your gas and charcoal grills to add that special wood smoke flavor. Read the instructions for your particular grill before you try doing this.

When you use wood chips, take care to keep them burning quite slowly. This creates intense bursts of smoke that can make food bitter. If you soak wood chips in water for about 15 minutes before you use them, you’ll slow down their burn and make them smoke more. Make sure you let the wood drip dry for a few minutes before you add it to the fire. Ideally, your wood chips will be damp but not saturated.

When using a small smoker in your grill you don’t necessarily have to soak your BBQ wood chips first. Soaked wood chips will burn longer, but if you’re cooking a steak, you probably don’t want a long, slow grilling.

Wood smoking chips or BBQ wood chips are available in a wide variety of flavors. They go from mesquite and hickory all the way to cabernet. The stores that sell these chips will have flavor guidelines so that you can choose the one that will give you the taste you want.

In general, the lighter the meat, the milder the wood chip you need to use. But it also doesn’t hurt to experiment and try mesquite with chicken, just begin with fewer wood chips then you would normally use.

With its more delicate aroma, alder wood chips best accompany lighter meats like fish and poultry. Fruit wood chips are also mild and are best used with poultry, veal and pork. These types of woods include cherry or apple.

Hickory or maple wood chips are strongly flavored and should be used with poultry, pork or beef. Beef, duck and lamb go well with the strong mesquite wood chips, and oak, another strong flavor, is good with beef and ham.

Just remember that BBQ wood chips are a flavor enhancer and not the meal itself, so don’t skimp on your meats. A substandard cut of meat is not going to be improved significantly by the wood chip you use. Make sure the meat you get is fresh and comes from a reputable supplier.

So the next time you decide to grill a great piece of meat consider using some of these BBQ wood chips and savor the great flavor and aroma coming off your grill.

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