I am using a meco electric water smoker. The pork shoulder is 12 lbs total (its cut in half). The larger half has the bone in it. I put the pork shoulder in at 8:00am this morning.
It is actually having a little trouble keeping the temperature down in the smoker today, that has never happened before. I am wondering if the hickory chunks I am using are adding too much heat or something. I had to add more water, turn the element down and take the cover off a few times to keep it from getting to hot.
I was thinking I could take to pork off at 6 hours around 185-190F and then put it in foil in the oven for an hour. in the mean time that would give me 4.5 hours to do the ribs and the smoker would already be hot....