by Oddwookiee » Wed Oct 03, 2012 5:11 pm
Better bet is contact a local meat shop and see what they charge if you buy a luau pig and cook it for you, then just pick it up in a big cooler and serve yourselves. If you're doing a casual gig with friends and family, rolling in with a whole-carcass pig smoked and cooked makes quite the impression. I'm just outside Portland OR, so for a 61-100 carcass luau hog it's $2.90/lb for the body then $50 for the smoking.
Granted, if you want a company to smoke, bring it and serve you, you can probably double that price pretty easily.
Another option, if on a budget, is hiring a shop to smoke boneless shoulder butts. The meat will be considerably cheaper and if they're competent they can do pulled pork in a commercial smokehouse very easily.