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I built this smoker from plans in my head! I bought the racks from Job Lot and kind of built it around them! The first year or so I used A-Maze-N dust generator for smoke; worked great... wanted to step it up a notch so I bought there newest and greatest generator the pellet burner! This thing puts out copious amounts of smoke for my cabinet! It is around 20" wide X 40" tall X 14" deep. I built a separate smoke box to house the new pellet burner so I can keep my inside temp low! It worked very well. Inside temps are under 85 degrees.
There is a store called Ocean State Job Lot here in CT. They had them in there BBQ section. I think Walmart has them as well! I am building another one that has Stainless Steel grates, so they are easier to clean between smokes! Good luck! Morgan
Here is the secret to great smoked cheese... http://www.amazenproducts.com/?Click=276 check this guy out. He has this dust smoker that I have used for over a year and it works great! Very simple to do; just fill the tray with the dust, light it and set it in the bottom of your smoke cabinet. It lasts overnight for me( 6 hours or so) It does not generate too much heat in the cabinet either. I just bought one of his pellet smoke generators also... this thing puts out A LOT of smoke! and lasts for 10 - 11 hours depending how much draft I give it. Check them out and you can smoke cheese in a cardboard box if needed. You do not need a fancy smokehouse or anything special like that, if you have a gas grill you can smoke cheese with this; just don't light the gas burner - use it as a a 'smoking cabinet' Have fun and happy smoking! Morgan
Todd is well known to one and all on this site. I like your homebuilt smoker. I can just hear my wife now: What???? Another smoker??????? I think I'll buy stainless shelves first, then build the cabinet, as you did in the build. On another note: I've found those particular trays at Bed, Bath and Beyond too. They're fairly common, but after some use, they do tend to rust near the joins of the metal.
Hi, Thanks. I have not used tis cabinet for hot smoking yet... I just tried the new pellet burner from AmazeN and it gets HOT if I don't throttle it back with the damper! I forgot and left the pipe wide open and did not put a damper before it enters the smoke chamber, therefore it melted 5 lbs of cheddar last night - when I woke up there was cheese blobs inside! They still taste good but are nothing to look at!!! I am going to run a test tonight and set a thermometer inside to see what I can get it up to. When I hot smoke I use my Weber Q-220 grill and place a pan of dust under the grate, that seems to work good. Good Luck, Morgan