I've smoked rib roasts the last couple Christmases. The first one was the best rib roast I've ever had. And Mom used to cook one every Sunday. I smoked it for about 2 hours, to internal of about 130, then in my oven as hot as the leaky old box would go for about 10 minutes. It was incredible. Ya don't need much wood...they were both small roasts. The first was a 3 bone, the second only a 2 bone. The first year, I used my Brinkmann SnP, the next one was in my UDS.