I'll be doing my first cook tomorrow on my new 22"- I'm thinking of an 11# butt & 5# brisket on bottom & 6.4# chuck, 2.8# babybacks, 4.4# spareribs on top. It sounds like alot, but I've got a chili cookoff lunch on Wed. & plan to use the chuck & brisket (haven't been able to cook a decent brisket yet, but if I hide it in chili...)& freeze any leftovers.
I've cooked a ton of butts on my electric Old Smoky, as well as in crockpots, ovens, & grills-pretty hard to mess it up. I'm not crazy about ribs, but the kids like them. I have all day to fiddle with it, gonna rig up a windscreen with an old futon frame, because it's pretty cold here. My biggest challenge, I think, will be keeping the puppies away from the smoker.