Anyone tried refridgerating their smoker?

[tomolu5]

Just curious if anyone has ever pulled this off? I have a "beer fridge" that I could bastardize for the cause. my general idea would be to pipe cold air from my freezer into my MES30 to make cold smoking possible in the summer. I would pipe it in the same way you would a mailbox mod, and run a computer fan on a stat to keep it in the thirties. all the while using an amnps for smoke. Im not sure if this is worth the effort(not that much work), or if there is a better way.

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• tomolu5
• Feb 13, 2013

 

[harvest122]

Now that outta get some looks from the neighbors.  Nothing like a beer fridge and a smoker that work together for the cause... I love it

 

[fuzzyfishin]

 Just use the mailbox and amnps. Run a pipe from the box through the freezer then to the smoker. No fan required!!!

 

[JckDanls 07]

I'm thinking once you deplete the cold air from the freezer that it would have hard time keeping up after that.... we'll see what others think ...

 

[linguica]

For proper air flow the fridge would have to have an air intake. That would make the fridge inefficient at cooling the beer. It be like leaving thre door open. IMO

 

[tomolu5]

I agree that it would not be a great long term solution, but rather a quick hook up with flexible duct to cool off the smoker. Maybe for doing like a two hour cheese smoke or something. I would guess that it should keep up. May be more difficult to get the smoker below 40 for doing cold smokes on uncured sausage, but that can wait for winter.