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Mine is powered by dryer elements. Has a fan blowing across the element the whole time it's powered on. My setup is the same thing sausagemaker uses on their cookers. I don't have a ton of hours on it yet but the last 5 weekends I've done over 100lbs of hams and bacons per run. The way I'm...
10 gauge wire. I run mine into a knife switch panel box with 30am fuses then to the element box and controller box. The way mine is setup it takes about 25ft if wire pet side. You will also need smaller gauge wire to power the PID and SSR. If you want I could get you some pics of how I set...
So far it works great. With the fan running the whole time it makes for good circulation. Only thing I don't like is it takes a long time to get it up to temp for hot cooks. Make sure you get good high temp wire. I used high temp appliance wire at first and the coating melted off, ground...
Yeah that's 3/4x1 1/4 silicone gasket. Got that from greggindustries. Great guys to deal. Expensive but worth it. Don't use furnace rope to seal your doors. Possible to contaminate food.
My setup has a fan that blows the whole time the cooker is going. It blows across the heating element...
This is the double door unit I built. It's split in the middle. 3in of rock wool insulation, 6in in the dividing wall, 5000 watt on each side, pid ssr and heat sink for each element. So far it has worked good.
Has 4 racks. They are all within 5degrees of the set temp. The drip pan doubles...
There's some guys on here that have way more knowledge than I do on building a cooker. I'm in the process of building one myself.
You will definitely want to insulate it. It will be a lot more efficient. Once it gets up to temp it will stay there longer. You don't want to use ridged...
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