Smoking is a great way to prepare steak, but the wood you use shouldn't be an afterthought. We went to an expert chef for ...

It's widely used in restaurants cooking over wood, and growing up in New Orleans, it's always been readily available.' Pecan is easy to find online - you can grab a bag of pecan chunks at Walmart.

You have to consider humidity and sunlight and choose the size of the wood you want to grill with (chips, chunks, or logs). But before all that, you have to pick the right type of wood.

The first way to smoke in a charcoal grill is a method so simple that it sounds like cartoon logic: throw some wood chunks into your grill. These will burn and create thick, delicious smoke that will ...