Load your smoker box with wood chips of your choice.
Adding wood chips to gas bbq.
Place wood chips in the pack or smoke box and place over direct heat.
Once the grill is preheated you will set up the grill for indirect cooking in a later step.
Pick the wood chips flavor that will compliment your food such as cherry hickory or mesquite.
You do not want to use a lot of wood chips to smoke your meat.
If you plan to add just a handful or two of chips for a light smoke over 20 minutes or so then the burn rate is not a real issue.
Some gas grills are already equipped with a smoker box so if yours has one use it.
Then pour the coals into your grill and place the smoke pack on top for a quick smoke best suited for chicken and fish.
A chimney starter or in the grill itself.
Place the smoker box over a burner you will leave on during indirect cooking.
A chimney starter is the easier of the two and it s relatively cheap.
Adding a smoker box to your gas grill is a great way to make your food taste more smoky.
With a built in smoker box.
There are typically two methods used.
Punch a few holes at the top of the pouch to let the smoke out and place the packet directly on the grill grate above a burner.
Add wood chips for the best smoky dish the use of a metal smoker box smoking bag or smoker pouch is a must.
Preheat your grill with all burners on high for about 10 15 minutes.
When they are smoking it s go time.
Otherwise the easiest method is to wrap your wood chips loosely in aluminum foil creating a small pouch.
Close the grill and allow the chips to preheat 5 to 10 minutes.
To use a chimney starter you need either lump wood charcoal or briquettes and something to light the coals with.
Otherwise you can buy one or grab a disposable smoker box from the store with the wood chips already inside.
With a smoker box.
You can place two to three handfuls of wood chips on top of the gas grill for direct heating for one hour.
Before adding wood chips the first thing to do is to light the coals.
If you want a long smoke add a packet of wood chips to the gas grill every 30 minutes to maintain the smoky flavor of the meat.
Adding the wood chips.
Generally a gas grill comes with a smoker box as an additional item.
Using wood chips or wood chunks is a great way to add delicious smoky flavor to your food and either will provide great results.
If your grill has a built in smoker box place the chips in the box and if the smoker box has a lid secure it.
Fill up a smoker box with the wood chips or make a foil pouch as described above.
All you have to do is add wood chips in the smoker box.
Usually gas grills come with the smoker box.