What is Fine Cherry Wood Chips best used for?

Fine Cherry Wood Chips are best used with hot smoking ovens, stovetop smokers, food smoking guns and cocktail smoking guns. The wood gives a mild, rich and slightly sweet fruity smoke and pairs especially well with duck breast, fish, chicken and vegetables.

What grade is this smoking wood?

This cherry smoking wood is fine grade 7/20 (average size approx 2mm). Choose this fine 7/20 grade when you need quick-lighting chips for smoking guns, cocktail smoking, stovetop smokers or hot smoking ovens.

Are these suitable for smoking guns?

Yes. This cherry fine grade is suitable for food and cocktail smoking guns when used according to your smoking gun instructions.

What does this wood taste like?

Cherry gives a mild, rich and slightly sweet fruity smoke. Use that flavour profile when choosing between lighter fruit woods, stronger woods and classic BBQ smoke.

Which foods does this wood suit?

It suits duck breast, fish, chicken and vegetables. Start with a small amount if you are new to this flavour, then increase if you want stronger smoke.

Is this smoking wood chemical-free?

Yes. This cherry smoking wood is chemical-free and ground to a consistency that gently smoulders when ignited.

What pack size should I choose?

Sampler bags suit testing cherry smoke, while 100g, 500g and 5 litre options suit regular stovetop, smoking gun or hot smoker use. Sampler is around four smokes; 100g is around 16 stovetop smokes; 500g is around 80 stovetop smokes.

How is it packaged and stored?

Sampler and 100g sizes are supplied in biodegradable resealable bags; 500g in a resealable bag; 5 litre in a resealable tamper evident tub. Keep the cherry pack sealed and dry between uses so the wood stays ready to smoulder properly.

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Cherry Fine Wood Chips

Be the first to reviewMild & rosy

Mild and subtly sweet, with a rosy colour it lends to the bark. Beautiful on poultry, duck and salmon — and a favourite blended with oak.

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Is Cherry your wood?Mild smoke · 2/5

PoultryPorkDuckSalmon

FlavourCherry · strength 2/5

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The profile

How Cherry smokes

Where this wood sits on the things that matter once it's smouldering.

Smoke strength2/5

Smoke output2/5

Sweetness4/5

FruitySweetColourful

From the smokehouse: Mild and subtly sweet, with a rosy colour it lends to the bark. Beautiful on poultry, duck and salmon — and a favourite blended with oak. Colour on food: rich mahogany red.

Pairing

Smoke this with Cherry

Poultry

Pork

Duck

Salmon

Method

For smokers & smoking guns

Fine 7/20 chips light fast and suit hot smokers, stovetop smokers and smoking guns. For big BBQ cooks, reach for a coarser chip.

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Hot smoking & infusing

Hot smokers, stovetop smokers, smoking guns and cocktail cloches.

Hot-smoked salmon · fish · cheese · chicken · butter · cocktails

Use a coarser chip

Low-and-slow BBQ

For BBQ smoke boxes, grills and charcoal you want bigger chips.

Ribs · brisket · pulled pork

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The grade

Coarse, fine or dust?

You're looking at the fine grade. Here's how the three compare — pick another for a different method.

Wood dustFine powderCold smoking — mazes, tubes & smoke gunsShop ›

Fine chipsYou're here7/20 · ~2mmHot smokers, stovetop smokers & smoking guns—

Coarse chips20/160 · ~8mmBBQ smoke boxes, grills & charcoalShop ›

Across your kit

However you smoke

The same bag works on whatever you cook on — dial in the amount and timing for your setup.

Soak

Not needed

Amount

1–2 tbsp

Smoke

20–40 min

1Scatter a tablespoon or two of fine chips across the base of the smoker.

2Heat on the hob until the chips start to smoke, then fit the drip tray and rack.

3Add food and lid keeping the heat medium so the chips smoulder rather than flare.

4Hot-smoke fish, chicken or cheese for 20–40 minutes.

In the bag

What you get

500g

Resealable bag

2mm

fine 7/20 grade

~2 yr

if kept dry

These chips smoulder slowly, so a small handful goes a long way.

Peace of mind

Safe to smoke food with

Chemical-free wood

Ground to smoulder gently

No additives or binders

Made for food smoking

The range

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First time smoking?

Start with a milder wood like apple or cherry, use a small handful, and build from there. Our guides walk you through it.

Which wood? ›Smoking guides ›

The detail

Specifications

GradeFine 7/20 (average ~2mm)

Best forHot smokers, stovetop smokers, smoking guns and cold-smoke mazes

TreatmentChemical-free

For BBQ smoke boxesUse coarse wood chips instead

Guides

Read up before you light up

A few of our most useful smoking guides and recipes.

Buying adviceWhich wood chips do I need?Read guide ›

Getting startedHow to smoke food at homeRead guide ›

RecipeSmoked mackerel at homeRead guide ›

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Cherry · 500g

£18.95

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