pellets N 09?

Just a guess,but they may burn more quickly.

They may also be a blend,with a smaller amount of flavor woods.

If they work well for you,go for it.

I think like Tom says they'll burn quickly.

You might need to add more, as a quick smoke won't last as long as a chunk of wood. Some people even put them in foil and then in the wood box to slow the burn down.

Interesting, give it a try and let us know how it went.

Russ

I did 6 butts this weekend. I used 2oz.(chunk) of hickory with 6 oz. apple pellets. the meat was fine. It WAS a little light on smoke however that may be from the mild apple wood. I usually use 6+ oz.of hichory for that type of smoke. The pellets were burned black but NOT ash. completly whole and in good shape. I will continue to experiment. Thanks for the advice.
David

Steve from tiawain brought me a couple packs of pellets. I took his advise and put them in foil with 2 holes poked. Seemed to work pretty good. My personal taste is more smoke but I can sure see the attraction.

david,
since we use both our fec and sm150 we have found that the pellets make our lives a lot easier since we do not have to carry both chunks and pellets. the biggest thing you need to do is make an aluminum foil pouch for your pellets and poke one tiny hole in it. that way 1.5 ounces of pellets will smoke for around 45 mins. you might like to use more pellets to get even more smoke but our best results have always been to make sure to put them in the foil pouch with only one tiny hole poked in it.
have fun experimenting and i hope this helped some
jack

As Bill mentioned, the pellets work well for me, and I don't have to worry about customs bringing them in. ( I had about 80 lbs. of wood chunks burned at customs here in Taiwan.)
You can also check out, BBQ ers delight. Candy Weaver is a member and she is fantastic to deal with. As everyone mentioned, the foil pouch works very well for me.
Steve.

Thanks to all for the help. I did 3 slabs of ribs. taste testing, thats another topic. I put in ONE chunk of hickory, and 5oz. of apple. I put the apple pellets in foil stuck my index finger in the center and wraped foil around finger. Thus creating a foil pouch with a hole in the center about the size of my finger. 250* for 5 hours, opended door half way to turn and spray. after finished, the hickory was gone and I still had a lot of unburned pellets. wood flavor seemed to be fine. I am thinking of cutting back on the pellets. Oh, the ribs were GREAT!!!
David

Oh yea, after 5 hours of cooking I was still getting a small amount of smoke from out of the vent hole. Since the hickory was gone, it had to have been comming from the pellets.