Smokehouse made of wood and a smoke generator from a thermos with his own hands
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How to make a wooden chamber for a smokehouse?
Every smokehouse includes three basic components:
- smoking chamber;
- heating element;
- chimney.
The wooden smoke chamber is easy to build, has an aesthetic appearance, non-toxic, and with proper processing of materials and careful assembly will last for many years. The following materials will be needed to build a camera with 1x1 meter parameters with your own hands:
- bars for a framework in section of 25х50 mm or 50х50 mm in length from 1,3 to 1,5 meters;
- lining or boards on a covering in section of 20-25х150 mm;
- thin self-tapping screws on a tree, or nails;
- moisture resistant sealant;
- roofing material - corrugated sheet, flat sheet, etc. .;
- hinges and door handle;
- temperature sensor.
It is necessary to clarify, smokehouse made of hardwood only. First comes the assembly of the carcass. The height of the camera with subsequent placement on the pedestal should be 1,3 meters. If you plan to smoke cold smoke with a smoke generator, then the height is left 1,5 meters, 20cm of which are added to the legs. First you need to decide on the slope of the roof, because with a one-slope shape, the front of the camera should be on 20 see above the back.
First of all we form a framework by means of such elementary preparations:
The next operation is to cover the bottom of the frame with a board to fix the shape of the structure.
Further, if the roof is pitched, from bars cut out guides in the form of isosceles triangles with a median to the basis. The vertices of the triangles are connected to each other by a bar. Now you need to decide on the location of the doorway and design it, stuffing boards the length of 20-25 see top and bottom.
The design of the roof depends on the shape:
- one-slope - boards in length 1,3-1,4 meters knocked down close to each other;
- two-pitched - on the top bars of a skeleton of sidewalls fix additional brusochki for support of the future roof, boards in length 0,8-0,9 meters nailed one end to the ridge, others to the sidewall bars.
The next step is to install fasteners with grooves for placing products. You can make them with your own hands from the length of the board 90 cm. First, it is drawn in half lengthwise, then with an interval of 10 cm with a feather drill drill holes with a diameter 3-4 cm. The resulting product is sprayed along the line and get shelves, which are mounted in two rows on the sides of the camera.
Then all the sides of the chamber and the ends of the roof are upholstered with boards close to each other.
On top of the boards, the lamp is covered with lining to increase thermal insulation. The roof is covered with corrugated sheet or aluminum sheet in size, then cut out a window 15x15 cm and make a fungus for smoke.
Cover the roof with stainless steel
Doors are also made with their own hands. From bars collect a skeleton, upholster it with a board and a lining, or just stuff boards and lining on two parallel bars, attach the handle and hinges, hang on a jamb. All seams and joints are sealed with moisture-resistant sealant, the top of the smokehouse is covered with mastic and varnish. The last touch is drilling holes for the temperature sensor and its installation. On 50% smokehouse made of wood is ready.
Another way to make a smoking cabinet is described here!
Types of smokehouses with a wooden chamber
Another design directly depends on the source of smoke. You can use the smoke from the fire, entering the chamber through the chimney. In this case, the lamp is equipped with a firebox, in which large wood logs will burn. The second option involves the supply of smoke to the chamber from the smoke generator.
How to make a smoke generator for smoking with your own hands
First, consider the instructions for creating your own smokehouse with a firebox. The process of arrangement in this case begins with the choice of location. Remember, that in the process of work the smokehouse emits a lot of smoke, which should not disturb the owners or neighbors.
If the soil at the construction site is loose and susceptible to flooding, it is better to start with laying the foundation under the smokehouse. To do this, dig a hole the size of the future structure and depth 30-40 cm. The bottom is covered with a layer of gravel, concrete blocks are laid along the walls of the pit, they are tied to the fortress with reinforcement and filled with cement mortar.
preparing the foundation
If the soil on the site is hard, groundwater lies deep and there is no threat of flooding, you can do without a foundation. As a chimney suitable metal or ceramic pipe, asbestos and polymer are excluded, because they emit harmful substances when heated. The best pipe length is close 1,5 meters and a diameter of about 15 cm. If the pipe is placed on the foundation - it is covered with bricks on all sides, sandstone or cement blocks, if not - the position is fixed in blocks, located on the sides.
A camera pedestal is built over one end of the chimney from cement blocks, whose parameters are 1x1 meter and height is close 60 cm. In the case of a foundation, an iron angle welded to the dimensions of the chamber is built over one end of the pipe.. At the other end, a firebox is made of refractory or ceramic brick and a metal door is built in..
- The manufacture of the original stationary smokehouse from wood is described here!
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Smoke generator from a thermos
It is much easier to make a smokehouse with a smoke generator with your own hands. Sawdust or wood chips will be suitable as fuel for it. The smoke generator can be made of any metal vessel with a tight lid, for example, a thermos with a large volume or a can.
A thermos can serve as the body of a dimogenerator
At a thermos we remove the top border and we get an internal flask. The case is no longer needed.
The most difficult thing is, that you need to grind all the sides, to get such a clean flask:
At the top of the tank punch a hole, in which weld a chimney with a diameter of about 3-5 cm. On the upper plane of the pipe, four inches from the vessel drill a hole for a pipe with a diameter of about 6 mm, to which the hose from the compressor is later connected.
In the bottom part of a vessel make apertures for ignition and for ash dumping.
Condensation will flow through the hole at the bottom in cold weather
The smoke generator works as follows: fuel is poured on the bottom and set on fire, air is pumped into the pipe from the compressor, which expels the resulting smoke into the chamber.
Any dish, be it meat, Salo, bird or fish, smoked cold or semi-hot way at home is a cause for pride of the owner. If the smoke was prepared by a wooden smokehouse, assembled with his own hands, then the reason for pride is at least doubled!
