The smoking has begun!
My brother (CP member Aegypticus) ended up finding a nice 4.2kg pork shoulder at Sobey's yesterday. Last night we prepared our own spice rub mixture (brown sugar, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, celery salt, white sugar, smoked paprika, hot chili powder, cumin, and cracked black pepper) and applied a liberal coating of rub to the pork. We also injected it with a cider vinegar, water, sugar, and salt solution. We used the same dry rub for the beef ribs.
We fired up the smoker at around 9:30 this morning. Our nice cheap $60 Costco smoker that is. It's a wet smoker so we put a marinade made out of coke, vinegar, water, and the leftover spice rub into the marinade tray. We also soaked a whole bunch of mesquite chips last night, which we placed right on top of the hot charcoal. Half now, half when we put the ribs on.
We'll take more pictures of everything when we put the ribs on around noon.