Since Tony and I last had a day of scrapheap challenge, the welder and grinder have been tucked away resting, just waiting for another opportunity to come out and play. Some of you may remember the amazing wine press that we built in a day out of an old washing machine drum and some bits of scrap metal. If you do remember the wine press, you may also recall that from 40 apples we managed to get an egg cup full of apple juice before destroying the press completely.
Anyhow, with our abbundance of pork at the present time, I felt it was time for a new scrapheap challenge. The home smoker.
Materials for this challenge include, the compulsory oil drum, a butane gas bottle that I can't be bothered to return, various bits of old metal and pipework.
The gas bottle will be the fire pit, with air inlet control, an ash box, a fire box and a shelf for the wet sawdust. The oil drum, soon to be mounted above will have a diffuser plate, shelves for meat or fish, hooks for doing larger lumps of meat and a flow control on the air outlet.
So far so good. Watch here for updates.
2 comments:
I don't think you really need this piece of equipment. All you need is a big fireplace and lots of wood. Then you put your meat up the chimney and it will get beautifully smoked and your house will be warmed at the same time. This is the way they did it in the old days, so forget about the old oil drum which might contain carcenogenic substances and just get on with the fire in the kitchen.
Amazing.... I'm speechless!!!!
Laura
xxx
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