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GrillSgt
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I'm new to the egg. I have always used chips when grilling or smoking. Do you use chunks for the long smoke? Soaked first? Thanks
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No need to soak. I use chunks since they last longer. Many people use chips and mix them throughout the charcoal. Try whatever you can buy easily.
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No need to soak and chips are fine, mix them thru the lump as you fill the fire box. Restricted airflow in the egg limits flare ups to when you open the dome, otherwise the chips do their smokey magic. Suggest you use less than you do in a kettle or other smoker and don't look for large whiffs of smoke coming out the top. Good luck!Delta B.C. - Whiskey and steak, because no good story ever started with someone having a salad!
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as said: NO SOAK...... I use whatever i have handy. I only turbo so 5 hours is a long cook for me and not that often anyway. So both work just fineSalado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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I do 4 chunks and about two handfuls of chips fora low and slow. Layer them both throughout the lump while I'm filling it.
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It's about how much smoke you desire for the food you're cooking. Different strokes........New Albany, Ohio
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no need to soak. i use whatever is available, and usually focus them in the middle of the lump vertically up and down through it. gives smoke throughout the cook.
chips will not ignite in the egg, so they don't 'burn up' faster than chunks. you just need more of them to produce the same amount of smoke. all things being equal, including the amount used, chips or chunks will produce the same amount of smoke.
truth be told, i get better results mixing chips and bits in than i do betting it all on one or two chunks of the same weight. fire can move away from a lone chunk. but it usually finds chips or bits (twigs, etc.) spread throughout the lump
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Either or. I tend to use chunks of Oak but, only because that's what's handy. I have both and use pretty much everything. It all burns and smokes.LBGE 2013 & MM 2014Die Hard HUSKER & BRONCO FANFlying Low & Slow in "Da Burg" FL
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Both - I like to use the ash tool to mix the chips into the lump than maybe add a couple chunks right on the edge of the fire before putting meat in.“There are three rules that I live by: never get less than twelve hours sleep; never play cards with a guy who has the same first name as a city; and never get involved with a woman with a tattoo of a dagger on her body.”
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Non soaked chunks. Mostly Pecan, Peach and Sugar Maple."Knowledge is Good" - Emil Faber
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Thanks. The consensus is that there is no consensus.
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GrillSgt said:Thanks. The consensus is that there is no consensus.
pretty straight forward actually.
if you want to drive further, put more gas in the tank.
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YukonRon said:Non soaked chunks. Mostly Pecan, Peach and Sugar Maple.Salado TX & 30A FL: Egg Family: 3 Large and a very well used Mini, added a Mini Max when they came out (I'm good for now). Plus a couple Pit Boss Pellet Smokers.
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