If you want to add real flavor to your meats then finding the right wood chips for masterbuilt electric smoker can make all the difference.
Electric smoker chips or chunks.
While any charcoal grill will impart at least some smokiness adding wood chips or chunks with smoking especially in mind will make a huge impact on the flavor and aroma of your meal.
That special smoky flavor is one of the most sought after features of great bbq food.
Every smoker has its personality quirks and the masterbuilt electric smoker is not without some quirks.
Bark makes great fuel for a campfire but not for smoking meat.
Because electric smokers often have inbuilt temperature controls soaking wood chips isn t really necessary.
However soaking wood chips can do much more than help regulate the temperature in your smoker.
Avoid using wood chunks electric smoker pellets or wood chips with the bark still on them.
Aside from the wood chips mentioned above there are several other wood chips that you can use for your masterbuilt electric smoker.
Chips chunks or charcoal.
W orking with a professional chef we tested five of the top electric smokers smoking over 40 lbs of pork butt 25 lbs of baby back ribs and 20 lbs of chicken.
The ones above are just some of the most popular ones.
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We found the masterbuilt 20071117 to be the best electric smoker overall producing succulent flavorful and tender smoked meats that could easily rival professional results.
If you have an mes 400 electric smoker you can use either wood chips or wood chunks depending on which smoke setting you are using.
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Wood chips wood chunks and pellets have been used for centuries to add smoke flavor to meats however with all of the different types and flavors of wood available today it can be a little confusing at first when trying to make a decision on wood chips.
There are also smoking chips that are made from avocado wood beech olive willow persimmon carrotwood bay chestnut guava fig etc.
Pellets are specifically designed for use in pellet smokers and can cause wild variances in temperature if used in your masterbuilt electric smoker.
Our electric smokers and cold smoker attachment are designed to operate with the use of wood chips only.
You can even take it camping with a small propane burner making it easy to smoke fresh fish or steak in the great outdoors.
Let s take a look at why you might not want to prepare your chips for electric smoking.
Wood chunks or wood chips can be used in our propane smokers.
Still the masterbuilt electric smokers are by far one of the easiest to operate.
Adding wood to your fire is the only way to get the true smoke flavor in your smoker.