Customer Reviews

Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Smoking Wood Chips for Seafood & Vegetables

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There are several varieties of chips offered by BBQ U. These are by far our favorite! The flavor of these chips which are a mix of 3 different woods is in our opinion superior to the more popular and readily available hickory and mesquite that you find at the supermarket these woods are overpowering for our tastes. We use them for everything except beef. They are awesome for chicken and pork-chops and of-course scallops.

The best thing about this brand is that the chunks are very uniform in size and burn equally making the estimate of how much you need very predictable. meaning you start with 5 chunks. see how it comes out and adjust the next time. To smokey for you- use 3 not smokey enough-use 7 the uniform size makes the guesstimate quite accurate. The other thing I like is the packaging. Yes-the packaging. Most wood come in bags and makes the storage of them a bit clunky. The boxes make good use of space and can be stored in camping bins and bbq boxes much more efficiently. We store 3 different flavors of wood in the same box and only pack the 1 box. Anyone who grew up with the same tetris like mentality should relate. We also like the woodchips for pork. and the wine barrel chunks. The wine barrel chunks are perfect for beef!

Used Steve's smoking woods for fish and veggies - Swordfish Steaks - added great flavor to the fish. The combination of alder, apple and cherry were quite distinct additions to the flavor. Couple of positive remarks made by my diners about the flavor. Like the product, although thought it was a little pricey.
Recommend you try this for fish, haven't tried with veggies yet.

I knew these wood chips would be good because I don't think Steven knows how to do anything bad. He is a great outdoor chef and has helped me in my backyard persuits by his wonderful recipe and help books. I bought chips for beef and chicken too. Great aroma when smoking and give just the right amount of flavor to food. Will buy again for sure.

Purchased this for a birthday gift for my foodie brother's birthday. He loved it! I wasn't aware of it but he and his late wife used to love to watch this guy's cooking show. I think my bro said it's on PBS.

I bought several mixes of these wood chips and was skeptical that they would make a huge difference, but boy do they add flavor galore. I highly recommend!

I used these with a smoking attachment for a Weber Genesis gas grill. I soaked these first, so they actually took *forever* to start smoking.... forever being about 30 minutes. I think if they were chipped in finer pieces, it would have been better.

They definitely made the grill smell nice, but did I notice an effect on the veggies? Not really.