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Making a Wood Chip Foil Pack – Adding Smoke Flavor

By on Jun 18, 2011 in Techniques, Techniques, Tips and Equipment
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Knowing how to make a wood chip foil pack is a must for any grill’er or BBQ fan. The flavor that wood adds is a quintessential part of BBQ certainly, but should also be a main part of your grilling playbook. Add a mesquite foil pack to your grill for some southwest flair with simple grilled chicken. Smoke up a pork loin or some chops with an apple or cherry foil pack. Season up your lamb with some smokey pecan. The sky is really the limit here, but for me, even when I have to make something fast during the week, I’m almost always doing it on the grill and I’m always using wood chips that I’ve usually started soaking the night before, which makes it quick and easy.

Equipment:

  • Aluminum Foil
  • A tooth pick or fork
  • Soaked wood chips (soaked for a minimum of 30 minutes)

 

Technique:

I can walk you through it verbally, but I think it’s easier if I show you…

So the last thing, is what you do with your foil pack. Fortunately that’s the easy part. For a gas grill, you should always preheat the grill for whatever your cooking. At the point you start the gas grill for preheating, place your wood pack right on the cooking grate over a burner that’s on. The foil pack should begin smoking by the time your grill is heated. There won’t be a ton of smoke, but you should see a little coming from the pack and you should smell it.
Now, if your doing charcoal you can do the the exact same thing. Place the foil pack on the cooking grate directly over the charcoal and wait to smell some smoke before you throw your food on. If you’re using a Texas-style offset fire box type grill, and your BBQing something using the indirect heat of the firebox, you’re going to want to put the pack on the heat in the fire box. I would recommend using wood chunks or logs if you’re doing this sort of cooking.

I’m going to follow this post up shortly with some wood-to-food paring recommendations. Here’s a few links to two online resources for your grilling and BBQing wood needs.

www.charcoalstore.com/c4600/Wood-Chips

http://www.barbecuewood.com/StoreFront.bo

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