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

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

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

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.

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

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.