Wood chunks--soak or not?

[Rfhd69]

Never soak IMO!

[UncleSpike]

The only time I soak them is if I add wood to a smoke box on my gas grill. I typically soak one of the two boxes, so as the first one finishes up, the second one starts smoking.

[Troutman]

My old man used to always tell me to "oh go soak your head". That's about all the soaking I ever do

[ecowper]

true story: when my best friend was 5'ish, his dad told him "go soak your head in a toilet" ..... and the next thing we all heard was Todd flushing the toilet.

[tiewunon]

ecowper man that has to sting a "self inflicted swirly".

[FireMan]

ecowper & tiewunon , in my day we called it givin someone a dairy queen. Who would of known that some youngins would think it cool & develop a hair style of such. Ther is a guy on the Weather channel with. DQ, looks absolutely amazing & silly.

[rickgregory]

I think the whole 'soak wood' thing came about when most of what you bought was chips and you were trying to avoid having them just burst into fire and burn away as you added them. Same reason you'd make a packet of them in foil.

The right thing is to avoid chips entirely and use dry chunks

[FireMan]

Hmm, never thought of that, one reason to soake wood, to avoid an explosion.