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Community => Butchering, Cooking, Recipes => Topic started by: reload821 on October 25, 2015, 12:34:22 PM

Title: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: reload821 on October 25, 2015, 12:34:22 PM: I haven't even started yet, so any ideas are good. I've looked on line, but would like to be able to hear feed back on how yours turned out, things you would change if you were to do it again, etc. Thanks
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: CplRaines on October 25, 2015, 12:41:32 PM: Here is a build I did recently

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,181331.msg2393770.html#msg2393770
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: NRA4LIFE on October 25, 2015, 12:43:39 PM: I built one out of an old Hotpoint refrigerator. It works great. This was one of the models that had a clamping door that shuts very tight.
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: Bean Counter on October 25, 2015, 12:55:32 PM: Corporal Raines. I have to tip my hat to you handy people. How much does the use of wood for the main chamber affect the flavor imparted to the food being smoked?
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: CplRaines on October 25, 2015, 12:59:52 PM: Once you get a few smokes in it to season the wood, it is pretty much the same as my big chief was.
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: pianoman9701 on October 25, 2015, 01:25:32 PM: Look through the cooking section. There are a couple of threads by kckracker on building your own that might assist you.
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: Blacklab on October 25, 2015, 03:20:36 PM: insulation insulation is really the thing I would do different. That would be adding. The racks would be 8 to 10 inches apart instead of 6. Other than that she's a keeper.
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: reload821 on October 26, 2015, 09:31:25 PM: Quote from: CplRaines on October 25, 2015, 12:41:32 PM
Here is a build I did recently

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,181331.msg2393770.html#msg2393770

That is one nice deal right there. Thank you, I'm not so sure I have your talent.... but I tell you what, Nice :)
Title: Re: Making a Smoker, Any Ideas
Post by: reload821 on October 26, 2015, 09:47:36 PM: Thanks for contributing to my project ideas, I've got some thinking to do. Lot's of good stuff, Thanks again :)