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I loved the cherry wood. Much less acrid than hickory and mesquite and I didn't overdo the smoke which I did with mesquite on chicken my first smoke. I ordered a bag of pecan and bag of peach from Western which I'm really looking forward to trying.
 
Very nice.

I just did my first smoke with ribs last Sunday. I used hickory which was excellent, but I've been eye-balling both the cherry & pecan chips lately. How was the cherry?
 
I'm doing some beef texas ribs this weekend using just pecan for wood , mixture of store bought spices for my rub and dadgum good BBQ sause. I'll post the results next monday
 
I did my first smoke with ribs using Pecan and we loved it, my son did some ribs last summer with Cherry and I thought it was kind a strong, maybe less smoke on them???  I have some maple to try next batch of ribs.
 
Maple is good, Wife like Pecan the best.  So I go with it 90 % of the time

Gary
 
They sure look good. I did this yesterday:


Using my OTG. 225-250 3hrs, then foild wrap with apple juice for 2 more hrs


And the last hr just with the home made sauce. I used apple chips and chunks for smoke; they were looking like this before take them to the table:


And some  smoke ring


They did came out good and we did enjoy them.
 
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Beautiful Ribs   Nice Job   
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IF I could only use one (thank goodness that is not the case) it would be Cherry "hands down" - I do mostly cherry with some apple and hickory most times FWIW
 
If I had to go with only one smoke wood it would be kiawe! Hands down no second place!

Since I have TONS of guava and ohia on my property I tend to use them more but I try to use kiawe whenever I can...

Guava is suppose to be very similar to Apple. Ohia is excellent with beef! I don't know what ohia is comparable to? It's an incredibly hard wood and puts out tons of smoke!
 
Here in East Texas,  Hickory, Pecan and Oak are what mot people use because of the availability  

Gary
 
I have heard that guava leaves goes fine with pork too.

I've tried guava with everything! It's good with pork, fish, turkey, chicken, etc... My favorite pairing is salmon! What it doesn't go with is beef! Guava smoked prime rib? Be there, shouldn't have done that!!!!!

My wife wants the guava on my property to be gone! I can only smoke so much every week...
 
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