Whether you're using a dedicated smoker, a pellet grill, or just looking to transform your charcoal grill into a smoker, ...

To make smoke, you need to burn some wood (or pellets), and nearly every smoking tutorial will tell you that the wood chips or chunks ... If you’ve done a lot of extended cooking on a charcoal ...

But when faced with the choice between wood chunks or wood chips ... of the hot coals — it will take them around five minutes to reach the point where they're smoking rather than flaming ...