Review of Flavorwood Grill Cans

The popularity of grilling has led many grillmasters to explore the world of smoking meats. There is now a product that makes smoking meat much easier for grillmasters and amateurs alike, called Flavorwood Grill Cans. Honestly, as an experienced grillmaster I wasn't sure what to think of these "woodchips in a can" for the grill when one of my friends introduced me to them. He told he he had used them several times this year and that the Flavorwood Grill Cans gave him a smoked flavor to his meat similar to mine. He pointed the only difference was that he had a smoke source that was reusable and required much less preparation than my traditional wood chips I used when smoking meat on the grill.

For anyone that is familiar with smoking meat, you know that you must soak the wood chips for at least half an hour before putting your meat in the smoker and adding the flavored wood chips. Ideally, your wood chips should soak for over an hour. Yet, with these Flavorwood Grill Cans when I first tried them I noticed there was no preparation involved. All you had to do was place the can on your grilling surface and about five minutes after it was placed over the hot coals, smoke started to come from the can. This smoke was very consistent in the airflow from the can.

I was even more surprised when I tasted the meat. After sitting on the grill with the lid closed and the Flavorwood Grill Can inside the grill, the meat I removed from the grill had a very respectable smoked flavor. I used the hickory flavored Flavorwood Grill Cans, and the flavor was not as complex as the smoke flavor from smoking meat for six hours over a grill, it was a very good replacement for a half hour meal. The great thing I have found when using the Flavorwood Grill Can a few times since then is that this single can can be used for anywhere from three to five grill sessions on your grill. The Flavorwood Grill Can lasts as long as a traditional bag of wood chips, and is much easier to store. It also costs about half the price of the bag of wood chips.

Many times you will struggle to find certain types of wood chips at your local grocery stores, and you can only find them at specialty grilling stores. With Flavorwood Grill Cans flavors range from the traditional hickory to the harder to find types of wood including cherry wood, pecan wood, and apple wood. Pick up a six pack of these and keep them with your grilling supplies and you will have a variety of options for smoked meats that will last you anywhere from one to three months depending on how often you grill.

Flavorwood Grill Cans are definitely worth purchasing for the cheap retail price of $4 each. They may not be authentic when compared to the smoke you produce on a grill for smoking meat with wood chips over the course of many hours. What Flavorwood Grill Cans are though, is something that produces a resonably authentic smoked flavor for grill masters who don't have the time to smoke meat with a traditional method.