How to Make Electric Grill Taste Like Charcoal – 4 Best Ways

Many of you must be wondering “how to make electric grill taste like charcoal” and get the same taste as it is coming from the fire pit. You can get the charcoal flavor in any other grill like a gas grill or an electric grill by using charcoal in it.

How to Get Charcoal Flavor on an Electric Grill 

Electric grill taste like a charcoal grill if you use charcoal in it. You can use this charcoal by wrapping it in a piece of foil or using a smoker box. You may also use liquid smoke while marinating your meat. These methods are easy, highly effective and inexpensive. Let me discuss all these methods in detail.

• Using a Smoker Box

• Use a Wood or Charcoal Chips

• Using Liquid Smoke 

• Using Smoking Gun Wood Cocktail Smoker

1.   Using a Smoker Box

A Weber Universal Smoker box is a stainless steel box specially designed to facilitate grill lovers. A smoker box will heat up wood kept in it and provide extra heat and smoky flavor to your food on the grill.

The benefit of using a smoker box is that you don’t have to spend time making fire or tending to the fire. In order to slow down combustion, soak wood chips in water for about 30 minutes. After that just fill the smoker box with charcoal and wet wood chips. You can use a smoker box during the summer to smoke your food outdoors.

This will give your food a much stronger smoky flavor. When you are smoking something indoors like if you want to smoke food in your kitchen, a smoker box can be used easily. You can either place it near the stove or next to the oven. It will keep the smoke in the cooking area and not in the rest of the kitchen.  You can add more wood to your smoker box, and it will make your smoke more intense. It will also create a nicer and smokier aroma.

Always use the box full of wood chips and charcoal it will give a nicer smoky flavor and also it will not damage the smoker box as it is recommended to use it filled. Because you cannot fill it out again in the middle of grilling.

2. Using Liquid Smoke 

If you are using any grill without a lid then this method of getting a taste of a charcoal grill is best for you. It is the easiest method. Just mix the liquid smoke with all the other ingredients of the recipe while marinating your meat.

Colgin Assorted Liquid Smoke is the best liquid smoker among all those I tried up till now.

3.  Wrapping Charcoal in Aluminum Foil

First, make a container-type shape of an aluminum sheet so that it can hold your required charcoal and wood chips. Now keep your charcoal and wood chips in it and then close the top of the sheet container.

Make some holes in the container with the help of a toothpick so that smoke is allowed to move and flavor our food. Now Keep this container on your grill next to the food you are cooking.

Close the lid of the grill and let the foil be kept in the grill for about 10 minutes on high heat. Make sure the coal heats up. If you are using the ceramic grill, you may use a separate vessel for wood chips during grilling.

What Type of Charcoal can be used in an Electric Grill?

These charcoals must be kept in a smoker box or aluminum wrap otherwise they may harm your electric grill.

4. Smoking Gun Wood Cocktail Smoker

Smoker gun is another method to make nicer and smokier aroma in your food. Fill the gun with wood chips, light them up and then blow smoke on your food.

By this method your indoor grilled food will taste like an outdoor grill.

Conclusion

If you are using an electric grill or gas grill, it doesn’t mean you cannot enjoy the smoky flavors and aroma of your food. You don’t need to worry anymore about how to make electric grill taste like charcoal. By using the above-mentioned method, you would love your food. It is very easy to add charcoal flavor to your food by using any of these methods.

Using Liquid Smoke

Using lump charcoal

Using Smoker box

Using Smoker Gun

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