Place the smoker box over a burner you will leave on during indirect cooking.
Adding wood chips to gas bbq.
You can place two to three handfuls of wood chips on top of the gas grill for direct heating for one hour.
For longer smokes set up a fuse burn with charcoal and wood chips or chunks.
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.
Usually gas grills come with the smoker box.
Adding a smoker box to your gas grill is a great way to make your food taste more smoky.
Add wood chips for the best smoky dish the use of a metal smoker box smoking bag or smoker pouch is a must.
Load your smoker box with wood chips of your choice.
Adding the wood chips.
Generally a gas grill comes with a smoker box as an additional item.
Place wood chips in the pack or smoke box and place over direct heat.
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.
To use a chimney starter you need either lump wood charcoal or briquettes and something to light the coals with.
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 your grill has a built in smoker box place the chips in the box and if the smoker box has a lid secure it.
Pick the wood chips flavor that will compliment your food such as cherry hickory or mesquite.
Close the grill and allow the chips to preheat 5 to 10 minutes.
A chimney starter or in the grill itself.
Before adding wood chips the first thing to do is to light the coals.
Some gas grills are already equipped with a smoker box so if yours has one use it.
You do not want to use a lot of wood chips to smoke your meat.
There are typically two methods used.
A chimney starter is the easier of the two and it s relatively cheap.
With a smoker box.
All you have to do is add wood chips in the smoker box.
With a built in smoker box.
The big difference is that chips burn more quickly than chunks.
Fill up a smoker box with the wood chips or make a foil pouch as described above.
Punch a few holes at the top of the pouch to let the smoke out and place the packet directly on the grill grate above a burner.
Then pour the coals into your grill and place the smoke pack on top for a quick smoke best suited for chicken and fish.
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.
Once the grill is preheated you will set up the grill for indirect cooking in a later step.
Otherwise the easiest method is to wrap your wood chips loosely in aluminum foil creating a small pouch.
