Homemade Cold smoking fridge

[rubberduck]

I like smoking cheese, butter, cream cheese, hardboiled eggs an tons more that I can only do in colder months with my a maz n tube smoker.

two summers ago I was in a redneck building mood and wanted to try something so I buit this.
The fridge still works so thats what keeps the cold temps for summer time cold smoking

Today I am doing
eggs
cream cheese that I preseason
butter
pepper jack cheese
swiss cheese
cheese sticks
and a bowl of sweet baby rays.

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[hawgrider]

I have used RubberDucks summer cheese rig ! It makes smoking cheese in the dead of summer possible. Yes the refrigeration is running while the a-maze-n smoke tube provides smoke.

notice the temp on the inside  61 degrees  what was the out side temp that day Duck ? pushing 85 90 degrees?

Redneck ingenuity at its best. Another alcohol inspired vision like the tree stump smoker we built for deer camp. 

 

[uzikaduzi]

Curious on how well the draft works with it running? Do you get a lot of condensation and/or creosote precipitation? I'm tripple digits at the moment and while most of what I could smoke is fine at the 70-80 I can keep the smoker at night, I'd like a better option and this looks promising

 

[rubberduck]

Curious on how well the draft works with it running? Do you get a lot of condensation and/or creosote precipitation? I'm tripple digits at the moment and while most of what I could smoke is fine at the 70-80 I can keep the smoker at night, I'd like a better option and this looks promising

When I stay out of the sun with 90 degree weather I can keep temps down to 50.
The flow is slow due to the cold air but I have recently come up with a way to resolve this.
I am wrapping the stack with electric heat tape with a warm stack it more then doubled my flow.
There is no creosote build up past the burn chamber as for condensation There is very little that I dab off when I flip at the half way and again when I remove.
But some of that may go away with the new flow.
Any further questions or suggestions welcome. I have played with this for awhile and worked most of the bugs out.

 

[uzikaduzi]

Nice thinking on the heat tape... it sounds like you really thought this through

 

[hawgrider]

Nice thinking on the heat tape... it sounds like you really thought this through

The best things in life that have been thought of were most likely alcohol inspired. LMAO!