One major perk to charcoal cooking: the ease of adding wood-fired taste. Simply toss hardwood chips or chunks onto the charcoal, or mix the two together before lighting. Unlike a gas grill, a wood chip smoker box is unnecessary — in fact, by burning directly on the charcoal, the resulting smoke is that much more efficient and potent. As always, we don’t recommend soaking wood chips, as all you are doing is delaying your smoke until the chips dry enough to ignite. If you need smoke over long periods of time, you may find that wood chunks are a better solution than soaking chips.