My wife and her mother own a restaurant in Ajijic Mexico that specializes in Smoked food aimed at the retired Canadians and Americans that live here.
She sells Smoked Chicken, Bacon, Pastrami, Smoked Lox, Pulled Pork and Corned Beef sandwiches.
They have been in business for 1 ½ years now and do pretty well so far. In this time we’ve used two electric Masterbuilt smokers and a cold smoker that I’ve built. But the electricity bill has gone from $250 Pesos every two months ($12 dollars American) up to $5,800 Pesos now every two months ($281 dollars American).
So I thought it was time to have a brick smoker built.
I do a lot of cold smoking of Salmon for smoked Lox and also bacon for breakfast and sandwiches. I also need to smoke and cook chicken, pork and Pastrami in the same smoker. So my thought was/is to have the smoker built under a roof to keep it cool for cold smoking but when I need to hot smoke I can build a nice fire also.
I hired a local contractor and gave him an idea of what I needed to have built and this is what we have so far. The work has gone on for almost a month and we are about half way done now.
The size is 5 foot by 5 foot and when it's done it should be around 8 to 9 foot tall.
I'll post more photos as the work progresses.
She sells Smoked Chicken, Bacon, Pastrami, Smoked Lox, Pulled Pork and Corned Beef sandwiches.
They have been in business for 1 ½ years now and do pretty well so far. In this time we’ve used two electric Masterbuilt smokers and a cold smoker that I’ve built. But the electricity bill has gone from $250 Pesos every two months ($12 dollars American) up to $5,800 Pesos now every two months ($281 dollars American).
So I thought it was time to have a brick smoker built.
I do a lot of cold smoking of Salmon for smoked Lox and also bacon for breakfast and sandwiches. I also need to smoke and cook chicken, pork and Pastrami in the same smoker. So my thought was/is to have the smoker built under a roof to keep it cool for cold smoking but when I need to hot smoke I can build a nice fire also.
I hired a local contractor and gave him an idea of what I needed to have built and this is what we have so far. The work has gone on for almost a month and we are about half way done now.
The size is 5 foot by 5 foot and when it's done it should be around 8 to 9 foot tall.
I'll post more photos as the work progresses.