Charcoal Grilling Tips: How to Turn Your Charcoal Grill into a Smoker

CHOW.com Senior Food Editor Jill Santopietro recommends that you smoke all sorts of things: fish, cheese, salt, and, of course, meat. And you don't need a fancy smoking device: You can smoke food on a basic kettle grill. It's really easy. ======================CHOW.com========================= CHOW Tips are the shared wisdom of our community. If you've figured out some piece of food, drink, or cooking wisdom that the world has to know about, send us a message and tell us what you've got in mind! See all the newest uploads from CHOW with the Latest Videos playlist: bit.ly Subscribe to CHOW: bit.ly For more recipes, stories and videos, check out www.chow.com CHOW on Twitter: twitter.com CHOW on Facebook: www.facebook.com ======================================================== TRANSCRIPT If you have a grill then you have a smoker. First thing you're going to do is soak the wood chips for fifteen minutes to a half hour. You can use apple, cherry woods, cedar wood, hickory, mesquite, there's so many different kinds of woods and all those woods can flavor. Then you're going to take unlit charcoal and dump it over to one side. Pick up one cup of the soaked wood chips. Shake off the water and you're going to place them right on this unlit charcoal. Light up some more charcoal and dump that on top of the unlit charcoal. And you're going to take another, about cup of the damp wood chips and place them right on the top there. Now you need to grab your drip pan and you're going to ...