Chuck of wood on a gas grill?

[Mikhail]

Has anyone tried just putting a chunk of wood on Grillgrates for a short gasser cook? Was just wondering if I could infuse some smoke flavor that way. I had some old gunk or something smoke up the grill the other day with some halibut and the results were a fantastic accident.

 

[Bob C Cue]

It might work. Just one question: how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

 

[Mikhail]

Y'know, that chuckin' works for duck too. How much wood would a wood duck duck.....

 

[Back9Q]

Would chips in foil packet work well


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[Evan]

Depends on how hot the chunk of wood gets. They make smoker boxes that you can fill with chips and place directly on top of the heat diffusers in a gas grill.

 

[Callahan-que]

Try it, what do you have to lose.

 

[JIMSMOKES]

Soak some wood chips and add to one of these.

 

[Mikhail]

Well, I tried it. Never got hot enough to ignite the wood.

Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

 

[Shadowdog500]

Wet chips in the Weber device shown above will kind of work on a regular gas’s grill.

Butch’s smack your lips BBQ used to have a big home made carousel propane cooker that had a door to add splits. That cooker made excellent smoked ribs.

I also had a big daddy bbq pellet cooker diffuser that held mini splits that made a world of difference in smoke profile. Perhaps someone could come up with something similar for a gas’s grill.

 

[Itsdone]

I cant figure out how to embed youtube videos, lol
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[mike243]

Shag bark off of a hickory tree, a smoke box or foil, leave out the water, put it on a burner so it will get hot enough to smolder, it doesn't take a lot and put it in there a couple minutes before you start grilling. I feel sorry for folks who have no shag bark hickory tree's

 

[gcs]

Wood pellets work for that, but burn up quickly, depends how short your grilling time is i guess.

 

[Moose]

I had no luck with the smoker boxes made for gas grills, so I created this little contraption which worked great:


https://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/showthread.php?t=72045

 

[Mikhail]

Shag bark off of a hickory tree, a smoke box or foil, leave out the water, put it on a burner so it will get hot enough to smolder, it doesn't take a lot and put it in there a couple minutes before you start grilling. I feel sorry for folks who have no shag bark hickory tree's

I have half a dozen of them so I will try that. Heck, we've lost that many in the 30 years we have been here. Plus a couple pignut.

 

[11earl]

I take a piece of wood and fire it up with a propane torch until it's burning - it helps somewhat.

 

[morgan-que]

I have used a small cast iron griddle place on the vaporizing bars and put chunks or chips on top placing the meat on the indirect heat side.

 

[Newglide]

I got my start in "smoking" on a weber gas grill. I wrapped a couple of handfuls of wood chips and made a foil pack and poked holes on both sides then threw it on the flavorizer bars, made a couple of those packs then put the meat on the other side cooking indirect. When the smoke stopped I threw another pack on. I never had any luck with those metal boxes.

 

[clarsmn]

Unless I need the space I always have 2-3 oak chunks on the grate across the back of my 2 burner Weber. Preheat it a few minutes longer and they start smoking. Don't want to wait, hit them with the weed burner for a bit.
Occasionally during a long grilling session I'll get a flame when the lid is open and have to spray them a bit or if they keep smoldering afterwards but usually I enjoy the smell for the few minutes after the grill is off.
I notice a slight smoke flavor, nowhere near the flavor of cooking over charcoal or wood tho.

 

[alphaking]

I've been throwing a handful of wood chips in my GrillGrates on my gasser and it works great. I have a sear station on mine and use it just for wood chips while cooking on the rest of the grill.

 

[jzadski]

Mine has a little trough to attach along with a special burner to use for it