Smokehouse made of gas stove with his own hands
Advantages of the case of a plate
Oven made of old gas or electric stove, sent by the owners to live out their lives in the garage or cottage, can serve as an excellent source material for the manufacture of a smoking chamber. Many elements of its design are ready-made solutions, which do not have to do with your own hands:
- Grooves on the inner side surfaces or telescopic guides;
- Lattice and sheets, which can be used for bookmarking and collecting fat;
- Elements of thermal insulation, maintain the temperature inside the cabinet;
- Consolidation, providing the necessary tightness.
- in addition, housing elements and their coatings are designed for significant temperatures, therefore at observance of a mode of processing and the correct approach to smoke supply such smokehouse will not be deformed. Their surfaces are relatively easy to wash, thanks to which it is possible to put products of any origin: fish, bird, meat and even vegetables.
Smokehouse with fuel filling into the chamber
There are two fundamentally different designs, differing in the principle of laying chips or other sources of smoke. The simplest is a smokehouse with filling at the bottom of the cabinet, because it requires a minimum number of operations with their hands.
The order of performance of works:
- Remove the oven door and its rear wall;
- Dismantle the gas burner from the oven;
- Install the electric stove (1,5-2 kw) or build a firebox under the bottom of the oven or inside the drying chamber;
- Drill two to four holes in diameter 10-20 mm in the lower part of the side walls for air supply and one - two in the upper part for the removal of exhaust smoke. For this purpose it is necessary to use a usual drill with a cylindrical or step drill on metal.
This camera has a number of significant disadvantages, limiting its use:
- Impossibility of cold smoking;
- Difficulty in regulating smoke distribution: the number and diameter of holes will have to be selected by trial and error;
- High heating inertia (inability to quickly reduce the temperature) may cause too intense smoldering of wood chips or ignition of fat, which will lead to spoilage of products;
Design with smoke generator
Smokehouse with a smoke generator has a more complex device. in addition, not all stages of its manufacture can be done with your own hands. Some parts will have to buy or order their manufacture.
The work is performed in the following order:
- To begin, you need to drill a hole with a diameter 27-28 mm at the bottom of one of the side surfaces of the gas stove. It will be used to supply smoke.
- Then a standard plumbing is inserted into it ?»Area with a longer thread length and is fixed by two low nuts. Even with a large thickness of the double side partition, this should be sufficient for reliable fixation.
- The same operations are performed on the opposite side, only this time the hole should be located on top of it. This unit will perform the functions of removing excess smoke and relieving excess pressure in the chamber. At the other end of the outlet screw a ball or cork valve, which will perform regulatory functions.
- A thermometer is mounted in the oven to control the temperature, graduated to 170-200 ° C.
How to make a universal smokehouse with your own hands
Now the smokehouse is ready and you can start making a smoke generator. The ejector-type device combines high efficiency and ease of manufacture. To make such a generator with your own hands you will need the following materials:
- Pipe ?»;
- Tube with inner diameter 6-7 mm;
- Pipe diameter 90-130 mm and length 50-70 cm;
- Neck with cap nut ?»;
- Union;
- Screw M6-M10 with ski nut;
- Thick metal sheet 3-5 mm.
- Air compressor;
- Connecting hose.
Most of these materials can be easily found in any garage or barn of a private home. As a compressor is quite suitable aerator for aquarium performance up to 60 l / year.
First you need to cut a circle out of the sheet on the inner diameter of the larger pipe, drill in it 20-25 small holes and weld it inside at a distance 2-3 cm from the edge. This kind of sieve will serve as a grate. Then a screw is welded to the inner wall of the pipe and a round cover is put on it, which will serve as an ashtray. A hole is drilled a little above the grate (10-12 mm) to ignite chips.
Next you need to make two holes at a distance 4-5 cm from the upper edge of the smoke generator facing each other. The outlet pipe is welded to one of them (3/4?), and to another - a thin tube with a fitting in this way, that the first was inside the structure and went into the second to a depth 1-2 see The compressor is connected to the fitting via a hose. The neck is welded to the outlet pipe and the whole structure is connected with a cap nut.
The video describes in detail the design of the smoke generator:
After igniting the fuel and turning on the compressor, the air stream captures the smoke and directs the flow inside the smoking chamber of the gas stove..
Such a smokehouse, made with their own hands, allows you to produce hot, and cold processing of products, due to which their shelf life increases to several months. The mixture of smoke and air ensures a minimum content of carbon monoxide and carcinogens.
