Usually gas grills come with the smoker box.
Adding wood chips to gas bbq.
Adding a smoker box to your gas grill is a great way to make your food taste more smoky.
When they are smoking it s go time.
Add wood chips for the best smoky dish the use of a metal smoker box smoking bag or smoker pouch is a must.
Place wood chips in the pack or smoke box and place over direct heat.
A chimney starter or in the grill itself.
You do not want to use a lot of wood chips to smoke your meat.
Close the grill and allow the chips to preheat 5 to 10 minutes.
Then pour the coals into your grill and place the smoke pack on top for a quick smoke best suited for chicken and fish.
Preheat your grill with all burners on high for about 10 15 minutes.
Load your smoker box with wood chips of your choice.
A chimney starter is the easier of the two and it s relatively cheap.
Generally a gas grill comes with a smoker box as an additional item.
Once the grill is preheated you will set up the grill for indirect cooking in a later step.
Otherwise you can buy one or grab a disposable smoker box from the store with the wood chips already inside.
There are typically two methods used.
If your grill has a built in smoker box place the chips in the box and if the smoker box has a lid secure it.
If you want a long smoke add a packet of wood chips to the gas grill every 30 minutes to maintain the smoky flavor of the meat.
Otherwise the easiest method is to wrap your wood chips loosely in aluminum foil creating a small pouch.
With a built in smoker box.
Using wood chips or wood chunks is a great way to add delicious smoky flavor to your food and either will provide great results.
If you plan to add just a handful or two of chips for a light smoke over 20 minutes or so then the burn rate is not a real issue.
For longer smokes set up a fuse burn with charcoal and wood chips or chunks.
Pick the wood chips flavor that will compliment your food such as cherry hickory or mesquite.
To use a chimney starter you need either lump wood charcoal or briquettes and something to light the coals with.
With a smoker box.
Fill up a smoker box with the wood chips or make a foil pouch as described above.
Some gas grills are already equipped with a smoker box so if yours has one use it.
To make your smoker box just soak small wood chips in water for 1 hour place them in a foil baking pan cover it with a sheet of foil and poke a few holes in the top.
Place the smoker box over a burner you will leave on during indirect cooking.
Before adding wood chips the first thing to do is to light the coals.
You can place two to three handfuls of wood chips on top of the gas grill for direct heating for one hour.
The big difference is that chips burn more quickly than chunks.
