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cdhknives · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 03 Aug 2012 Posts: 297

I got an electric smoker for Christmas...first time smoker owner. Dad always did briskets and such on the pit, but that is pretty much over for me living on corrosive Padre Island.

Do y'all make your own chips for smokers or buy them?

I was hacking on some scrap mesquite to get chips for mine, but decided that was NO fun. Maybe I should fire up the bandsaw and just cut chunks...but what size to make sure the water soaks in but they don't burn out too fast?

Any rules of thumb?
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Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

HEB sells all kinds of chips including my favorite for fish - Alder!
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cdhknives · Flour Bluffian in training Joined: 03 Aug 2012 Posts: 297

Pay for wood chips? Laughing

Yeah, I have a garage full of scraps of pecan and mesquite, but I'd like to try some of the northern fruit woods like apple and I guess I'd have to buy them.
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kweber · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:57 am Post subject:

Ty.. I used that on the salmon last yr...
just bought a bag of apple to smoke cheese... it's 1.87 a bag
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rodandroll · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 10:56 pm Post subject:

I cut mesquite limbs into 1 inch wide rounds and use just like that. Works great.
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Chef Lefty · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 1:47 pm Post subject:

If you are going to do some red meat or pork, give the Jack Daniel's wood chips a try. They are wonderful. I get mine at Academy.
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