Smokehouse Project (pictures)

That's a nice smoker wilderness. How many hams and bacon sides will it hold?

What are you planning for security ? The smell of the meat smoking would be tempting..lol.
I think it's awesome ! Good job !

I love the smokers and they have given me ideas and incentive to build one. The biggest problem is that DH doesn't weld and we have to find someone who can and will and then get them to understand what we want. Those pictures are a big help, so thanks to you who take the time to show the rest of us different ways of making things. I currently use an electric smoker to cook meat, but I would love to have a smokehouse to really smoke the meat in. There was an old smokehouse on DH parents' homeplace, but they only hung meat in it, they didn't use it to smoke it. I always wanted to smoke in it, but it got torn down before I could.

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GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!!

Thank you WolfWalksSoftly My dogs will definately keep an eye on it. lol


You're welcome ilovetodig. Here is a site that might inspire you....lots of smokers made out of a variety of things. One man even uses a hollowed out tree stump. You have to click on their names at the side...
http://www.wedlinydomowe.com/photo_g...es/joachim.htm

LOL Elkhound!

Maybe the way to a man's heart is a smoker! lol

(makes note to tell daughters how to win a man's affection! lol)

Hey Cowgirlone! Thanks for the links!

I think I will be looking into this. Sounds like a project worth pursuing!

ROFLMBO! Took the words right out of my mouth! We had 30 pounds or so on mine the first time out, and there was room for another 30-40 pounds. I'm gonna tell you why mine has wheels now. So I can hide it from the woodcutters. If you buy hickory to heat your house with, they want $110/cord. If they see you have a smoker, they want $220/cord for the same wood.

For all you folks worried about a fire, check this out...you check it out, too, cowgirlone, for maybe some ideas...


Uh, is that chimney cap a PIE PAN? (New idea for me!) I can't wait to see this thing SMOKIN'!!!

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Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

Oh yeah, in the spirit of inspiration, here's how to build my barrel smoker...

http://bbq.about.com/gi/dynamic/offs...ll.net/smoker/

It's a web-ring, and there's lots of cool BBQ stuff on it.

I have seen smokers made out of filing cabinets, house propane tanks, even an old van body with a woodstove piped into it. Use you imagaination. I wanted something big enough to smoke a lot of meat, but not so big as to be wasteful for smaller batches. (And it had to be hideable! LOL.)

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Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

The ashes were kept to a minimum in smokehouses with internal fires by keeping a low charcoal fire, where the heated smoke did not raise the ash off the wood into the air so much. If it did get ash on the meat, you simply washed or cut that off the outside.

Some smokehouses had external fireboxes, which help a lot in controlling ash.

The one thing about BBQ competitions around here is, they dock you points for having black in your meat. There is to be no black from the outside. Shhot, to me that's the best part! So I don't compete...I just eat!

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Jim Steele
Sweetpea Farms
"To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing." -- Robert Gates

Jim, I love that video. Thanks for posting the link!! I hadn't thought about looking for videos about smoking, looks like there's lots to check out, Thanks!





Here is anothe simple little box smoker......http://img435.imageshack.us/my.php?i...resized9fa.jpg

cowgirlone i guess you threw every one off by posting a picture of your smoke house setting over your pig cooker. it looked as you was gonna use it that way with the fire box sitting under your lil smoke house. so if you plan on running pipe from the pit to the house it might be ok that way, but you should have said that to start with.

I agree js, I should have been more clear on how cold smoking works...
Sorry about that!!

I'm still waiting on the firebox, I guess I have plenty of time before I'm going to need it.