To use wood chunks on prime rib?

CoachWiggs · December 2016

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 · December 2016

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

JRWhitee · December 2016

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 · December 2016

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 · December 2016

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

CoachWiggs · December 2016

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

bgebrent · December 2016

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

DMW · December 2016

I'd go pecan.

Arkysmokin · December 2016

Pecan/cherry

JustineCaseyFeldown · December 2016

Oak tree in the yard at all? Use some twigs

i haven't bought wood in years

Hans61 · December 2016

One chunk of cherry

Phatchris · December 2016

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

The_Stache · December 2016

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 · December 2016

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

lousubcap · December 2016

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 · December 2016

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 · December 2016

@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 · December 2016

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

To use wood chunks on prime rib?

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