For use with the ProQ Frontier, or the ProQ Excel, and any kettle BBQ
Hickory is the most popular smoking wood in the USA. It is great for BBQ flavours with meats like ribs, pork and brisket. The robust wood produces a strong, bacon-like flavour which is a great partnership with big meat-flavours.
To cook low 'n' slow, American-BBQ style, arrange coals in the basket of your smoker in a horseshoe shape. Sprinkle over the wood chips, and then pour hot coals - using a chimney starter is easiest - into the centre of the horseshoe (see photo). Sprinkle a small handful of chips onto the hot coals. The coals will burn slowly outwards, keeping the BBQ lit for hours, with the chips burning evenly as they go.