- Feb 1, 2017
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So, I like to do some woodworking in my spare time, and my husband loves grilling. He has been wanting a smoker, but has researched his brains out and can't decide what he wants. For Christmas, I bought him a Smokemiester, which is a little cylinder box that converts your kettle grill into a smoker. However, we have decided to not convert our grill, but to build our own wood smoker.
I have pretty much designed it:
sides: 48 inch tall x 18 inch depth.
back: 48 x 24
front: some mixture of 48x24 with a door built in.
I have ordered the appropriate size shelves which are about 21 inch wide. I am using tongue and groove pine boards for the exterior, mounting it to the frame and I am going to put 3 inch rolling/locking caster wheels on.
My questions:
1. Do I need to insulate at all? We live in NC- doesn't get too cold, but winters can be steady in 40s & 50s at night.
2. We were going to use the smokemiester for smoke only, and get a hot plate for the heat control. I seem to read a lot about hot plate issues, Can I get a safe, effective answer for this? Also, when we use the hot plate, since we don't need smoke, should I just put maybe a roasting pan with water on it?
3. Should the door be sealed some how?
4. Does this build seem okay otherwise?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated because I want this to be awesome for him, effective, without modifying my original plan extremely as I already have the materials. Thanks so much!!
Emily
I have pretty much designed it:
sides: 48 inch tall x 18 inch depth.
back: 48 x 24
front: some mixture of 48x24 with a door built in.
I have ordered the appropriate size shelves which are about 21 inch wide. I am using tongue and groove pine boards for the exterior, mounting it to the frame and I am going to put 3 inch rolling/locking caster wheels on.
My questions:
1. Do I need to insulate at all? We live in NC- doesn't get too cold, but winters can be steady in 40s & 50s at night.
2. We were going to use the smokemiester for smoke only, and get a hot plate for the heat control. I seem to read a lot about hot plate issues, Can I get a safe, effective answer for this? Also, when we use the hot plate, since we don't need smoke, should I just put maybe a roasting pan with water on it?
3. Should the door be sealed some how?
4. Does this build seem okay otherwise?
Any tips would be greatly appreciated because I want this to be awesome for him, effective, without modifying my original plan extremely as I already have the materials. Thanks so much!!
Emily
