wood chunks vs chips

I use a couple of chunks for long and slow butts, say 10-12 hours and they give smoke a long time.

Others use chips mixed in with the lump in various methods, and that has worked for me as well, although I mostly use chips for shorter cooks.

Either will work.

often you hear "chunks are better" because they last longer.  well, it's true.  a chunk is bigger than a chip, and will last longer.

but i look at it this way.  give me a single half pound chunk, or a half pound of chips.  which can i get more smoke from, and for longer. 

for me, it's chips.  actually, it's small bits of wood, chips, twigs, whatever.  i do have chunks, and use them, but i just use them differently.  i mix a lot of small bits of wood into he lump where the fire is going to be.  and that's it.

a single chip might be gone sooner, but there's another chip near it and more mixed in and around it. 

they don't ignite and burn any faster than chunks, because the BGE restricts the fire.  you don't get open burning flames. a chip smolders just like a chunk.  in a gasser, the chip would burst into flame and be spent inside three minutes.  like littlesteven

use whatever you have.  the wood doesn't care what shape it is in, and the fire neither