Guide to Smoking With Chips in a Bradley Smoker

Written By
Amy Rodriguez
Amy Rodriguez
Published: Dec 22, 2010
Updated: Nov 20, 2021
1 minute read

Function

Bradley Smokers burn specially designed bisquettes. These bisquettes are compacted wood chips of various types that are bound to one another. The bisquettes burn for a set amount of time and are extinguished with water.

Features

Bradley Smokers burn a bisquette for 20 minutes. The smoker then extinguishes the spent bisquette and automatically replaces it with a fresh one. Several bisquettes may be required to sufficiently cook your meat. The amount of bisquettes used when smoking depends on the meat you're cooking.

Significance

Multiple bisquette burnings allow the meat to absorb clean smoke from the initial burning of the fuel. Continuing to smoke with wood chips that are almost completely ash gives the meat an unpleasant aftertaste.

Amy Rodriguez

Writing professionally since 2010, Amy Rodriguez cultivates successful cacti, succulents, bulbs, carnivorous plants and orchids at home. With an electronics degree and more than 10 years of experience, she applies her love of gadgets to…

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