Wood chip or pellet

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Which do you prefer using wood chip or pellet? Also which flavour wood/pellet do you like to use?

[All Weather Griller]

Hi Jon,

I have used both on charcoal cookers for that woodsy aroma but if I'm honest I haven't ever noticed a huge amount of difference. I think I go with what is easy to source. Wood chips can be found in abundance in the UK if you can identify a supplier. I suppose the same could be said of pellets but I think suppliers of pellets are lesser in numbers than those of wood chips.

I suspect the manufacturing process would be more labour intensive for pellets as it would be for chips and perhaps that is reflected in the price.

I use chips because I can get them with relative ease. If the same were true of pellets I would probably use those.

HTH

Adie

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Cheers. One thing I didn't know (unless I misunderstood), was that I could use pellets on a charcoal burner, or have I got that wrong? I thought they were for the traegers etc

[All Weather Griller]

No you can burn them on a charcoal burner. i have had a few variants, some that come in packets specifically for charcoal, often branded as JD etc or used the pellets that Toby had from Cookshack.

A slack handful when the coals are hot will give you a plume of smoke.

[Vic.]

As a newbe to this business I've only ever used weber chunks on a frying pan, cherry, pecan and hickery. I love the smell and taste of hickery. I could stand all day cupping my hand over the chimney. ....Hec, if I could put it in a pipe I'd probably smoke it

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Learn't something new Might have to try pellets at some point and see if there is any difference. So used to using wood chips, never even considered pellets.