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I don't know the answer but Aaron Franklin once smoked three briskets at the same time in a wood burning smoker. Two were wrapped after a couple hours and one was never wrapped so it got smoke for the full time (at least 8 hours almost certainly more) and when they tasted the three, the unwrapped one did not taste overly smoky  so there seems that there is a point where smoke stops penetrating.  The point of wrapping is to speed up the finish point  and apparently wrapping does not decrease the desired amount of smoke.

I don't know the answer but Aaron Franklin once smoked three briskets at the same time in a wood burning smoker. Two were wrapped after a couple hours and one was never wrapped so it got smoke for the full time (at least 8 hours) and when they tasted the three, the unwrapped one did not taste overly smoky  so there seems that there is a point where smoke stops penetrating.  The point of wrapping is to speed up the finish point  and apparently wrapping does not decrease the desired amount of smoke.

I don't know the answer but Aaron Franklin once smoked three briskets at the same time in a wood burning smoker. Two were wrapped after a couple hours and one was never wrapped so it got smoke for the full time (at least 8 hours) and when they tasted the three, the unwrapped one did not taste overly smoky  so there seems that there is a point where smoke stops penetrating.  The point of wrapping is to speed up the finish point.

I don't know the answer but Aaron Franklin once smoked three briskets at the same time in a wood burning smoker. Two were wrapped after a couple hours and one was never wrapped so it got smoke for the full time (at least 8 hours) and when they tasted the three, the unwrapped one did not taste overly smoky  so there seems that there is a point where smoke stops penetrating.