Depends on what you're cooking.
For a friday afternoon event I start cooking at 7 am thursday and do all the pulled pork.
Then friday morning around 8 am I do the ribs and chicken until they're almost done.
I then heat up everything and finish the ribs and chicken while setting up for a sale.
Pulled pork takes 12 to 14 hours at 225 degrees. You cook to temperature instead of time and temp though. Results can vary depending on humidity, temperature outside, etc.
Baby back ribs take 4 to 5 hours. But you can't cook them to temp it's cooked to how they flex. There's alot of science to it.
I cook a thing called chicken bombs that's a butterflied breast with 2 cheeses inside along with 2 small strips of jalapeno pepper then rolled up, wrapped with 2 strips of bacon, smoked and coated in bbq sauce. Those take 3 hours.
Everything I smoke is at 225 degrees ish.
