wood chips in Smokette question.

I never tried wood chips before but I have some experience with wood pellets. I would try the wood chips wrapped in foil with a couple of holes poked in to let the smoke out. Don't soak 'em either, they'll smolder fine in the foil without water. I'd weigh the chips; figure a couple of ounces depending on your taste for smoke.

Lots of threads,if you go to the search funtion.

Yep they are useful if you are trying to coldsmoke,or generate smoke quickly for short smokes.

Wood chunks are so cheap/plentiful that you'll be lucky to use up $5/yr in the efficient CS,so you might find that your control/results are worth sticking with them.

I prefer to stick with the chuncks and you are correct..........the small amount of wood that I have used so far is very small.

What should I do with the bags of wood chips?

Chips only seem to work on short cooks that do not need much smoke(about an hour). I use a very small amount, otherwise the food gets a very bitter taste from all the quick smoke chips generate. I have tried foil with small holes without luck.

I'd save them for now.... I use chips (actually I just chop up some chunks to make chips) for cold smoking to get a lot of smoke without much heat. Good for cheeses, raw bacon (for more smoky bacon), possibly on jerky.

You could also use some chips along with a chunk to gain the same amount of smoke. It is said that meat won't take on more smoke after it reaches 140 on the outside... so the early part of a smoke is where the taste comes in.

Absolutely,

Wood chips are great for salmon or other fish. And other types of short somkes. They are great for getting good smoke before the temp gets too high. I just put a small (1/3 to 1/2 cup) at the front of the wood box for about a 1 hr smoke for salmon. They don't really go to ash and look like little chips of charcoal when the fish is done.

The problem with chips vs chunks is they burn up too fast and don't "smoke" long enough. I can't really give a conversion for "chips to chunks" but you might try a test with a PB and put a bunch of chips in and see how they do. If it was me, I'd bunch them together so they smoke from the outside of the pile into the middle. THe issue might be if they all ignite, you'll have TOO much smoke.