Soaked Wood Or Dry?

[Sonny Jordan]

I usually soak the oak chunks in water for an hour before I put them in the smoker. Now I am wondering if maybe dry is better.

Any suggestions?
Thx.

 

[Dennis Solin]

Dry, wet wood makes your ribs black. We use just dry chunks of mesquite or hickory, dry alder chips or dry oak logs.

 

[Chris Allingham]

Sonny,

See To Soak or Not to Soak.

Regards,
Chris

 

[Konrad Haskins]

Dry Chunks /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

 

[Lee Reiser]

I soak wood chips but not wood chunks.

 

[Sonny Jordan]

Hey Chris,

I should have known you already covered the topic in the site. Duh!

I like to soak the wood because it gives me something to do since the WSM does everything else.

 

[Jim Clay]

IMHO it is a total waste of time to soak wood chunks. The water doesn't penetrate more then a 1/16th of an inch at the most. Soaking wood chips will keep them from burning up too fast. Since I got the WSM I only use chunks and never soak them.

 

[Dennis Fraley]

I never soak my wood either. Whats the point? Why season or dry wood out to try and add water back into it? I realize it's not sap only water but still. Dry works fine for me. And I get all my wood for free. Ateast maple and fruit wood I do. But it works for me. So I don't really care if they burn up faster. I'll just add more /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif

 

[Bruce Bissonnette]

...non-soaker here also.