Wood Chips for Smoking Food

[simonator]

Can anyone suggest anywhere in the UK that sells decent quality wood chips for smoking food please?

[sherman]

http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=bbq+wood+chips&...

[simonator]

Thanks - i had googled it previously, but there are quite a few results and wandered if anyone has bought anything from any suppliers and how they rated the products too?

[Mobile Chicane]

The Weber chips (available from garden centres) are good, however why not gather your own?

Any hardwood will do: oak, beech, fruitwoods etc. Just break twigs into smallish pieces (avoiding any with mould on) and soak in water for half an hour before throwing on the BBQ coals.

At this time of year I gather young fresh beech twigs, strip these of leaves and throw them on the embers of a BBQ followed by a whole trout. Whack on the lid, close the vents and check after 20 minutes.

The resulting hot 'smoked' fish (in the society of brown toast, horseradish sauce and a bit of fresh dill over) will be flavoursome, succulent and enough to convert even the most hardened fish hater.

(Not to mention a 1/4 of the price of smoked trout in shops.)