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With so many other smoking products out on the market, one might ask "why choose Flavorwood?" Wood chips and chunks has been the primary way of adding smoke flavor on grills for years but the major drawbacks with these products has always been the need to soak your wood hours before cooking and often catch fire (flare up) when the wood dries out. This leaves your food covered in ash and does not always produce a noticeable smoke flavor on the food.

Flavored charcoal is one solution the industry has come up with to solve the wood chip problems, but the problems this product has is that most of the wood gases that add the smoke flavor to the food is being burnt off as fuel. This tends to make the smoke flavor on short cooks, such as burgers, barely noticeable even when using strong flavor woods such as mesquite and hickory. Pellet grills have this same issue when it comes to the short cooks.

The industry is now trying a new solution with the introduction of flavor bars. These bars allow the consumers to put barbecue pellets into a built in tray and add smoke to their cooking. Although pellets are a more stable medium to use for smoking due to their consistent size and density, flavor bars do not solve the flare up issue as they do not limit the amount of oxygen that is getting to the heated pellets.

Flavorwood solves the issues that the industry can not. Flavorwood does not require soaking, does not have the flare up issues that wood chips and flavor bars have, and will add noticeable smoke flavor to your cooking because all the wood gases are used for flavoring not fuel.

Flavorwood vs The Competitors

	Flavorwood Barbecue Grilling Smoke	Cast Iron Smoke Pot	Woodchips/ Woodchunks	"Flavored" Charcoal	Wood Planks^*	Smoke Cones	Flavor Bars	Pellet Grills^**
Adds flavor while cooking	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
No flare ups	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes¹	Yes	No	Yes
Adds no carcinogens	Yes	Untested	No	No	Untested	No	No	No
No prep time	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No²	No³	Yes	Yes
Reusable	Yes	Yes⁴	No	No	Yes⁵	No	Yes⁴	Yes
Easy to change smoke type while cooking for different foods	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Does not use smoking wood as fuel.	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Possible⁶	No
Does not leave ash residue on food	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	Possible⁷
Everything needed to smoke food in one small package	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
No cleanup after use.	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

* - Because wood is not a uniform material, most items cooked on wood planks do not cook uniformly.

** - Please note that pellet grill prices start at around $400 and are designed primarily for long, slow cooks.

1 - Users must properly soak planks before use to prevent flare ups.

2 - Requires the product to be soaked in water for at least an hour and then the food side must be coated with a non-stick substance.

3 - Requires product to be used before grilling

4 - Only the smoking device is reusable. Contents in device may not be reusable

5 - Must remove all charred wood and resoak before reusing.

6 - Pellets or wood chips in flavorbar could ignite

7 - Depending on grill construction and brand of pellets