Hi guys, new to the community and joined because I building a cabinet smoker for hot smoking salmon and as I'm pretty new to smoking want to ask for your advice, opinions and suggestions.
I got 3 stainless steel thermal panels for free and made a design to make the most of them without wasting much.
So the cabinet is something like this:
The inside design at the moment is something like this:
I'll do everything modular so I can take everything apart to deep clean.
The heating elements are two 2,5kw home oven replacement parts, which will be controlled by a PID and a contactor.
As in my country it is not easy to find good chips, or pellets, I need to use chunks, so the idea is to put them directly over the heating elements, over a perforated tray or rack.
Problem here is that i'm not sure if the "ON" time of the elements (once it is in temperature) will be enough to keep a good amount of smoke.. ??
I'm not very sure about air intake/ chimney /air flow. By logic I shouldn't have much air flow because the O2 would light the wood on fire, right? But I guess some air flow must exist to "renew" the smoke...
As for the chimneys I was planning to do two 5cm (2 inch) chimneys with air flow control, is that ok?
This is a work in progress, so I'll keep updating and all your comments are much appreciated.
I got 3 stainless steel thermal panels for free and made a design to make the most of them without wasting much.
So the cabinet is something like this:
The inside design at the moment is something like this:
I'll do everything modular so I can take everything apart to deep clean.
The heating elements are two 2,5kw home oven replacement parts, which will be controlled by a PID and a contactor.
As in my country it is not easy to find good chips, or pellets, I need to use chunks, so the idea is to put them directly over the heating elements, over a perforated tray or rack.
Problem here is that i'm not sure if the "ON" time of the elements (once it is in temperature) will be enough to keep a good amount of smoke.. ??
I'm not very sure about air intake/ chimney /air flow. By logic I shouldn't have much air flow because the O2 would light the wood on fire, right? But I guess some air flow must exist to "renew" the smoke...
As for the chimneys I was planning to do two 5cm (2 inch) chimneys with air flow control, is that ok?
This is a work in progress, so I'll keep updating and all your comments are much appreciated.