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Chips or Chunks?
Andymizunogolfer
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So far I have only used chips. For long smokes I am thinking chunks are better. Does it really just depend on if I am going for a long cook compared to a short one?
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Kinda like "Ford vs Chevy". The quantity of smoke wood (chips or chunks) and where it is located relative to the traveling fire in the BGE goes a long way to determine the amount of smoke generated. Some use chips throughout the lump load other use chunks strategically placed. Really doesn't matter which you use to achieve your objective as long as the fire finds them. FWIW and YMMV.Louisville; Rolling smoke in the neighbourhood. # 38 for the win. Life is too short for light/lite beer! Seems I'm livin in a transitional period.
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I prefer chunks just for the sole fact that you only have to load them up once. Chips will get the job done though.
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I've gone to chunks only, mainly for lack of storage room. Just one or two small ones for short cooks. I'll try to be more stategic about where I place them on longer cooks and use the bigger chunks.
Damascus, VA. Friendliest town on the Appalachian Trail.
LBGE Aug 2012, SBGE Feb 2014
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Mostly chunks, but I like the Jack Daniels Chips. I have a thing for Bourbon!
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I have never done a low and slow, but when I do am going to use chunks because I don't want to have to keep adding chips.@smokindawg82 I am also using Jack Daniels chips!Louisville, GA - 2 Large BGE's
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Chunks all the way.
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johnkitchens said:I have never done a low and slow, but when I do am going to use chunks because I don't want to have to keep adding chips.@smokindawg82 I am also using Jack Daniels chips!Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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+1 on the chunks especially if its a longer cook.
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Small, Medium, 2 Large, XL ,Stumps XL Stretch, Workhorse 1975 -
I use both. Learned it from Stike.
Mike
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