Hey snusdog and the rest of you in the path of sandy, how's the weather?

[The Stig]

I'm on the fence with this actually. I've used wood chips both ways, in different applications, and had some good results and some horrific ones as well. For smoking in a low and slow environment, i've always used small chips and dust in dry form to create the smoke needed. For charcoal grilling, in an indirect heating arrangement, used damp larger chunks. Using dry in this application actually catches the wood on fire and caused some really off flavors for me and made it harder to manage the heat. Using them damp keeps the wood chunks from catching fire and creating too much heat. As long as your top vents are open and positioned over the food, you get enough circulation and steam is no problem. When I was in the restaurant biz, we'd actually smoke fish on the cook top using damp wood chips and a stainless pan from our Bain Marie. :-)

[whalen]

Being hit by a hurricane, Whalen still manages too keep his extremely low level of intelligence when creating jokes - I think he'll be alright.

Edit : Can we also, PLEASE get a photo of the cat? (in duct taped condition of course)

Cat is outside but froggy is game!

[whalen]

And if my Intelligence level was that low, I would create a US warehouse for snus, take away everyone's credits, and then start screwing my customers big time! Just sayin........... My intelligence is above average, so is my level of brain damage, bad combination for jokes really! Sorry about that.............

Should have caught my act before the extended open heart surgery!

[Bigblue1]

Here is a great website on all things Q' this link links to an interesting article on the subject of soaking. http://www.amazingribs.com/tips_and_...king_wood.html Lot's of other great info thru out the site.......

[GoVegan]

We might get up to 1 inch of rain tonight!

[Snusdog]

Here is a great website on all things Q' this link links to an interesting article on the subject of soaking. http://www.amazingribs.com/tips_and_...king_wood.html Lot's of other great info thru out the site.......

Thaks for the link Blue.........I'll go check it out!