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    My Cold Smokers

    For years and years I fumbled and tinkered with trying to get a reliable cold smoker that wouldn't "snuff out", but also wouldn't catch fire and give off huge plumes of thick smoke.  Well, finally I nailed down a perfect ever-reliable design.  I get an empty soup/baked beans/food can.  This size...
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    My Cold Smokers

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    Filtering smoke - bubbling smoke through water?

    Thanks for your reply Phil - much appreciated. Hot fire = no creosote.  Well understood, but a strong bed of coals is not an option for me - I'm mainly querying into cold smoking, where a two chamber rig isn't an option at the moment.  Down the track I may very well look into a two chamber rig...
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    Filtering smoke - bubbling smoke through water?

    I have a DIY query regarding the bubbling/filtering of smoke though water. Take a look at the following image, just as a start guide: http://www.artisan-distiller.net/phpBB3/download/file.php?id=1676 If a set-up was made using steel (iron) pipes similar to what's shown, where the left-hand...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    Bear, Got your reply -thanks. What you mentioned...spot on. But what I've been trying to figure out is specifically HOW to achieve the type of smoke u mentioned. What I'm thinking is wrapping the chips in a few good layers of alfoil...sealing them up real tight...then pricking 1 or 2 toothpick...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    Thanks bigtime for the replies - much appreciated. If I was to use a "smaller" pile of wood chips -vs- a "bigger" pile of wood chips...but in either case, the pile was THOROUGHLY wrapped in alfoil with a tiny hole punched in the top of the alfoil...would both bundles of chips produce more or...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    Appreciate all the comments.  I think I have a fair idea of what to do from here.  No guarantees how it will work, but fair idea. 1.  Starve the chips of air - really make it hard for them to burn.  Alfoil pouch seems the go.  Only a couple tiny holes. 2.  Let the chips get past an "initial...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    I've used both commercial BBQ wood chips, as well as untreated, chemical-free, Redgum wood chips from a landscaping/timber/gravel yard.  100% natural and safe, guaranteed. I've used wood chips bone dry. Used chips soaked in water. Used chips soaked in a bowl of boiling water overnight, then...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    ohiojason, Thanks for your reply. This is the way I look at it - pellets are basically compressed sawdust, where as wood chips are basically small chunks of wood.  So I think a pile of wood chips has much more air (oxygen) in that pile, compared to a pile of pellets.  Sorta like comparing a...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    Mike, Thanks heaps for your reply - much appreciated. Should've mentioned this to begin with - I have an AMNPS - one for sawdust, one for pellets.  But neither suited to wood chips....which is what I am using, and will continue to use.  (Got access to plenty). What I need advice with is how to...
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    Wood Chips - Initial Ignition Phase & Bitterness?

    For some time I've been smoking meat at home, where I'm currently using a Hark electric smoker.  But I've also used a number of "homemade rigs" that have worked quite well.  I have read extensively into the preparation and curing of meats, so this is not at all a problem.  Unfortunately, almost...
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    Cold smoker - ducting issues?

    I've been doing some very basic cold smoking for a while now, and I've seen quite a few homemade cold smokers where users connect aluminim ducting to the vent on Weber BBQ kettles.  E.g.: http://www.mamaliga.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/dsc_10651-1024x680.jpg I'm trying to work out how this...
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    Adding newspaper pellets to sawdust to assist burning/smouldering?

    Couple of things - Using cooking oil doesn't seem to help the issue...at least when the sawdust is "wet" with oil.  Will try it again though. Buying sawdust from overseas?  WAY too cost prohibitive.  I'm definitely prepared to spend some money, but not to the point of buying sawdust from...
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