Review of Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set

One of the biggest complaints that my wife has when I smoke meat in my barbecue is that I take the sink to soak the smoker chips. With the Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set that is no longer an issue. The Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set removes the need to soak your wood chips for smoking meat in the sink or a bucket. You can now use this convenient soaker mechanism to do your soaking of your chips right where you grill, and that is outdoors. There are quite a few advantages to using the Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set for soaking your wood chips for your grill or barbecue.

The first is that Mr. Raichlen is one of the best known barbecue grillmasters in the country. He is the equivalent of Emeril Lagaase or Bobby Flay in the cooking world. He has designed his Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set to the proper size so you can have two baskets of wood chips soaking at the same time in the plastic basin. These baskets of wood chips for smoking on your grill or barbecue are the perfect size to use. Once your wood chips are done soaking you have two options. You can either pour the baskets over each side of your smoker set up for your grill, or you can put the baskets directly onto the hot coals themselves. Before placing the wood chips on the coals, just hold the baskets over the plastic basin for a minute to let the excess water drain.

Clean up for the Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set is extremely simple. The baskets are made of stainless steel, therefore you don't have to worry about them rusting. You can either wash them by hand or put them in your dish washer. The only inconvenience is that they are a little large for some dishwasher compartments. The plastic basin that you soak the chips in when they are sitting in the stainless steel baskets should be washed by hand. This takes very little time.

The convenience of being able to soak my wood chips for smoking meat in my grill or barbecue while leaving the kitchen sink free for other tasks is greatly appreciated. It allows us to prepare other portions of the meal and save me from hearing the complaints of my spouse about the amount of space I am taking from the kitchen. The Steven Raichlen Best of Barbecue Wood Chip Soaker Set is a must have for any grillmaster or want to be grillmaster who enjoys doing a lot of smoking on their grill or barbecue.