Bet you thought this thread was about AZ402...
Anyway, i recently made some summer sausage and told myself I will never smoke again on the old pile of junk Brinkman garbage can thingy. I will build one or buy a better one. I like to build things.... I have some metal working ideas and tools to get it done so I decided to build one. While looking for a cabinet I came across a restaurant style cooker/warmer on Craigslist. It is made for low temps, only maxes out at 350 degrees and is a 110V unit. Stole the thing for $100. These things are new around $5K , a shame to turn it into a smoker, NOT
So I had all the heating and controls already in place with the oven, it goes down to 100F on controls. So to make it get some smoke now
Did some research, came up with the ideas for a smoke generator that is nothing more than a Stainless tube filled with wood chips, and a fish tank pump for a small air supply to force air in the bottom of the pipe to keep the wood smoldering. Works like a charm!
Added a vent stack to the top of the box for draft and keeping air moving and fresh smoke, and an air supply pipe to the back of the oven to hook the smoke generator too and get fresh air. The cool thing is the smoke generator can produce a little, or a lot of COLD smoke to use for cold smoking as well. Here is some pictures of the project and some cooking today.
Here is the smoke generator, it is a 3" pipe with a screen on the bottom and capped off.
Cranked up!! WAAAY too much smoke for realistic smoking but just a test.
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And the smoke generator piped to the same size vent with a loose fitting 3' dryer tube for an intake
a couple butts and a Fatty cookin
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A finished fatty
The fatty had Italian sausage, Venison Italian sausage, ground venison, sun dried tomatoes, pepperoni, mozza cheese, mushrooms, onions, and peppers.
they were good, but the sun dried tomatoes were a little too salty.
Anyway, i recently made some summer sausage and told myself I will never smoke again on the old pile of junk Brinkman garbage can thingy. I will build one or buy a better one. I like to build things.... I have some metal working ideas and tools to get it done so I decided to build one. While looking for a cabinet I came across a restaurant style cooker/warmer on Craigslist. It is made for low temps, only maxes out at 350 degrees and is a 110V unit. Stole the thing for $100. These things are new around $5K , a shame to turn it into a smoker, NOT
So I had all the heating and controls already in place with the oven, it goes down to 100F on controls. So to make it get some smoke now
Did some research, came up with the ideas for a smoke generator that is nothing more than a Stainless tube filled with wood chips, and a fish tank pump for a small air supply to force air in the bottom of the pipe to keep the wood smoldering. Works like a charm!
Added a vent stack to the top of the box for draft and keeping air moving and fresh smoke, and an air supply pipe to the back of the oven to hook the smoke generator too and get fresh air. The cool thing is the smoke generator can produce a little, or a lot of COLD smoke to use for cold smoking as well. Here is some pictures of the project and some cooking today.
Here is the smoke generator, it is a 3" pipe with a screen on the bottom and capped off.
Cranked up!! WAAAY too much smoke for realistic smoking but just a test.
And the smoke generator piped to the same size vent with a loose fitting 3' dryer tube for an intake
a couple butts and a Fatty cookin
A finished fatty
The fatty had Italian sausage, Venison Italian sausage, ground venison, sun dried tomatoes, pepperoni, mozza cheese, mushrooms, onions, and peppers.
they were good, but the sun dried tomatoes were a little too salty.
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