I'm still pretty green so I won't try to give a ton of advise. My first smoke was a pork butt for pulled pork, my second favorite. Followed advise and instructions from this site and I could not believe how good it turned out. I WAS HOOKED! Did 3 over a period of time, just got better. Then what happened? Mr expert smoker tried my very favorite....ribs. I"ll make short. Not so good. Second time, not so good. About to give up when I tried Jeff"s 3-2-1 method. Damn, back to Mr expert again. So pick something, research this site and go for it. Ya know that ole saying......if first you don't succeed, keep smokin!