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Add more wood chips or water as needed while your meat smokes. Now you are ready to smoke your food.
The smoker has a loading tube with a handle.
How to use wood chips in an electric smoker. Usually its safe to load around half a cup or one cup of wood chips in an electric smoker. However you should check with the loading trays capacity prior to putting the wood chips in. The loading tray is present at the bottom of the racks in most smokers.
When there is no wood chip pan in your electric smoker using an electric smoker with wood chips is still possible. Rather than using lots of foil over and over like most people do you can take an empty tin can and use that to hold your wood chips. Using it you only have to put the marinated meat inside the smoker.
Fill the water pan with water and wood chips in a wood chip box. Shut the door plug the switch in and turn it on. Now you are ready to smoke your food.
Because during the smoking process the meat leaves juices and gets hard. How to Use Wood Chips in an Electric Smoker Fill the Water Pan If your smoker comes with a water pan use hot water to fill the metal container provided and carefully place it at the bottom of the smoke chamber. Do NOT mix up your wood chip tray and your water pan.
Load 1 cup of wood chips into the wood chip tray or loader. Side-loading units such as the MES 130 B Digital Electric Smoker or the Masterbuilt 30 inch have a slide-out loader. You can remove the loader and fill it to capacity.
Generally speaking youll find the wood chip tray positioned directly under the heat source in an electric smoker. Exposed to extreme heat the wood chips in the tray smolder and burn producing smoke that rises up and flavors the meat on the racks above. If your electric smoker doesnt have an obvious receptacle for wood chips then you can get around this by putting them in a metal can or in some tin foil and then placing it carefully around the bottom of the chamber of your smoker.
You can even use a smoker box which is designed with good smoke ventilation and durability in mind. Its time to connect the electricity with the masterpiece and load 1 cup of your favorite wood chips into the grills wood chips tray if you use 30 of MES. Besides the main grill you can see a wood chips tray to load wood chips.
Add more wood chips or water as needed while your meat smokes. A good way to know whether you need more wood or water is to watch the smoke. As soon as it stops open the smoking chamber and refill the water cup to the top.
Then load another 1-4 cups 150-600 g of wood chips into the chip tray slide it back into place and resume smoking. Add Wood Chips in the Smokers Tray During the cooking period add the soaked wood chips in the smokers tray pull back the tray and load the wood chips in the tray around 3 to 4 cups and replace it because if you add more wood chips you do not need to add the wood again and again. By far one of my favorite features of the Masterbuilt electric smoker is the way you load the wood chips.
The smoker has a loading tube with a handle. You turn the tube and pull it out of the smoker fill it with chips and then slide it back in and turn it to fill the tray. The food in an electric smoker is cooked from hot air produced by the electric heating element - just like an oven.
When it comes to smoking the food you need to add wood to the wood chip tray. This will get heated up to create the smoke. Basically an electric smoker is a type of smoker that uses electricity to cook different kinds of BBQ meat.
The first step is soaking the wood chips in water for 30 min. I soak the wood chips in liquid smoke for 2 hours. I add the chips to a stainless steel bowl then pour enough water on them to cover them.
I put the bowl directly on the pellets. I add water every 3 hours if needed to cover the chips. Now thirty minutes before you start cooking put four or five handfuls of lump charcoal into your smoker or in the firebox located on the side of the grill and light a fire using an electric charcoal starter.