Barbecue Wood Chips

Try different barbecue wood chips to suit your menu ideas. It’s the BBQ wood chips in smoker cooking that provide the flavour and every wood has its own distinctive characteristics.

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The principal behind smoking is that wood burns when it is heated and by reducing the amount of oxygen available to the wood, it smokes rather than burns and by adding the pieces of wood to your barbecue smoker, a range of fantastic flavours is produced. Some smokers also use a system of pellets.

If you’re just grilling, try wrapping some barbecue wood chips in foil and then perforate the foil with a skewer. Throw the foil pack onto the coals and you’ll get a pretty similar effect.Green wood burns at a higher temperature burns for longer and provides more smoke than aged wood.

Hickory is one of the most popular and below I’ve listed some of the other barbecue wood chips you can choose from and their suitability for cooking with particular foods.

Acacia

Part of the mesquite family provides strong smoke suitable for most meats and vegetables

Alder
Delicate aroma with a hint of sweetness to try with fish (especially salmon), pork, poultry and game.

Almond
Nutty and sweet smoke flavour that’s good for all meats

Apple
Delicately sweet with a dense fruity smoke flavour that works well with beef, poultry, game, pork and ham

Apricot
Similar to hickory but milder and sweeter, generally fine for most meats

Ash
Be warned this one is fast burning with a light but distinctive flavour that complements fish and red meat

Birch
A medium hardwood with a flavour similar to maple. Try it with pork or poultry

Cherry
Sweet fruity smoke flavour suitable for all meats

Cottonwood
A very subtle flavour again for most meats

Grape Vine
Aromatic and similar to the other fruitwoods so it works well with all meat

Grapefruit
Medium smoke with a hint of fruit that is delicious with beef, pork and poultry

Hickory
Pungent smoky bacon flavour perfect for pork and ribs

Lemon
Medium smoke with a light fruit aroma that’s great on beef, pork and poultry

Lilac
Light and subtle with a floral hint, fantastic on seafood and lamb

Maple
Strong and earthy that’s good for pork, vegetables, poultry and small game

Mesquite
Another that’s strong and earthy but this time try beef and vegetables

Mulberry
Beautifully sweet apple flavour delightful with beef, poultry, game, pork and ham

Nectarine
Similar to hickory but sweeter and quite mild but good for most meat

Oak
Really heavy smoke that works with red meat, pork game & fish

Orange
Medium smoke with a light fruit hint that’s good for beef, pork and poultry

Peach
Slight sweet flavour suitable for most meat

Pear
Another one with a slightly sweet flavour and this time good for poultry, game and pork

Pecan
Similar to oak but not as strong so good for most meats

Plum
Similar to hickory but milder and sweeter, another one suitable for most meat.

Walnut
Very heavy smoke and can be bitter so only good with strong flavoured red meat and game.

Once you've selected the different chips that you want to try,

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