To use wood chunks on prime rib?

CoachWiggs

Last Christmas I did not use any wood chunks when I did prime rib.  I was thinking about adding maybe one chunk of wood this year.  Should I stay away from piece of wood?  Or use one?  If so what type of wood

GoooDawgs

I like red oak with my steaks.  1-2 chunks

JRWhitee

I usually use a chunk of oak with my prime rib, you dont want to overpower the great flavor the rib roast already has though.

JustineCaseyFeldown

Just a little oak is usually all it takes. 

although i have been told I'm wrong

seems a lot of people like oak too though. So. There's that

bgebrent

I'm in the one chunk of oak fan club too.

CoachWiggs

I have pecan, cherry, apple, hickory, mesquite of course I don't have just plan oak

bgebrent

Pecan or hickory are fine.  I'd pass on the mesquite personally.

DMW

I'd go pecan.

Arkysmokin

Pecan/cherry

JustineCaseyFeldown

Oak tree in the yard at all? Use some twigs

i haven't bought wood in years

Hans61

One chunk of cherry 

Phatchris

I like cherry with everything, gives a really nice color.

The_Stache

Is it time to start the Hackberry string?  Wonderful fruitwood, very abundant in the south fabulous flavor BUT... 1 chunk on this fine meat.

pgprescott

I am firmly in the no wood smoke for prime rib category. If I were to add wood it would be oak. 

lousubcap

Only oak I can get comes in the Jack Daniels chunks and chips.  I do use a chunk or handful of chips with the rib roast cook.  

Little Steven

lousubcap said:

Only oak I can get comes in the Jack Daniels chunks and chips.  I do use a chunk or handful of chips with the rib roast cook.  

Or Tabasco barrel chips. They were Jack Daniels barrels for a couple of batches then enhanced

lousubcap

@Little Steven - Just toured their facilities on Avery Island a couple of weeks ago.  Turns out that while they use Jack Daniels barrels they don't feed to the chipper very often.  What follows comes from an email I received from them a few days later following up on some questions:
"1.  We get our supply of barrels from Jack Daniels.  
2.  Barrels are reused for many years, sometimes up to 70 - 80 years.  At the end of their life cycle - we chop up the wood to make wood chips."
No wonder the Tabasco chips are hard to find.

Little Steven

They told me that Jack Daniels uses the barrels for two batches and Tabasco uses them for ten. That would be a lot of years