Garden Secrets Barbecue OAK Wood Smoking Chips

Excellent. Perfect sized chips for the purpose I have used them. I did not want these for smoking BBQ meats, but for aging spirit. Oak barrels are A. Too big and B. too expensive, to used for aging small quantities of spirits. But in a glass demijohn, a cupfull of these soon releases the tannins and other oak flavourings that immitate oak-barrel aged spirit. The chips are not as illustrated. They are obviously deliberately machine-chipped in bulk; made for purpose, rather than off-cuts from carpentry, or logging, as the illustrated chips are.If my spirit turns out the way it looks like it will, I will definitely use these again. I would imagine that in a smoker, these would impart just the right flavour too. If you were trying to use these in a normal BBQ, you would need far more because much flavour would be lost to the atmosphere, even in a covered BBQ.[Update]I have had the oak chips in the spirit for long enough now that the chips are very definitely imparting the right flavours. I 'toasted' some chips using kitchen foil on a BBQ at the weekend and added those into the demijohn, along with some more spirit. I will be ordering more when the lot I have runs out, but it'll be a while.

Not a cheap product, but good quality, decent sized, uncontaminated oak chips. I soaked the chips overnight before putting in a smoking box directly on top of the burner of my gas barbecue turned up fairly high until the smoke started, then turned the burner down to just enough to keep the smoke coming. I used about 1/3 of the tub each time, which was enough for about 2 hours smoking, and successfully smoked a full pastrami each time

Really appreciated getting a message from Garden Secrets, confirming that the smoker and wood chips were on their way and that if I needed any help with setting up or anything else to 'just get in touch!' It was great to know that they cared about their product and it would be lovely if this sort of service was provided by other sellers too! Thank you!

Produces a bit of a thick smoke (you want a thin blue) but still does an alright job, of course more expensive or home grown wood will end tasting or smelling way better but you get what you pay for!

I am happy with the product and the service.

Only used once so far as great British weather has limited opportunity to BBQ, but am sure they will do the job OK.

I used these for homebrew, they worked perfectly. I aged my brew for over 3 months and the chips imparted a mellow oaky flavour on them.I've used less than half a bucket on 5 x 5l demijohns. I'll definitely buy another bucket when I run out.

These are Too small wood chips... burn easy even if soaked in water for 1 day before use !!!!!!