My new Electric Smoker: The Whisper

[Faster]

Hi everyone, I have been very busy with building a new smoker, wood structure, PID controlled, electric assisted, because the old Bullet bit the dust and I returned it to its Maker.

Size is 50x50x120cm, opening roof, on hinges, on the bottom is a fan assisted round resistance 2000w that blows heat around and is vertically mounted.

It works beautifully with the PID, so far I only did setup test runs to tweak the PID.
Still one thing I didn't solve yet is the place for the temp probe. On the bottom, it was showing 20⁰C less than on the top. So I think the best place is near the top, (3/4) just based on the tests I did.
The electronics box is open because I didn't mount the probe yet in its permanent p.ace
The PID is XMT-7100 and only shows inside temperatures, I would have preferred Rex c100 but that's what I had since long.
Thanks for looking and any advice is appreciated.
Have nice evening
Few photos

 

[Faster]

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[processhead]

It looks great, and nice workmanship.
Since you are using an electric heat source, be sure to protect it from any dripping fat from meat/sausages.
With it being constructed from wood, any grease fire inside the smoker would be potentially catastrophic.

 

[Faster]

Thanks processhead , appreciate your comment, I must confess that you were a decisive influence with your thread on pork belly (I looked up your gear), with precise timing and results I couldn't manage, because the bullet was not very controllable and paint (on the inside) was peeling off like crazy. Poisonous...
I'll definitely watch the fire hazard thing...
However I have to smoke a belly soon, to see how it really works.
Have great day

 

[processhead]

What are you using to generate smoke?

 

[hoity toit]

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You have a winner !! I like it my fellow SMF buddy.; I have one very similar,, you enjoy thatbc it will serve you well for a long time.

HT

 

[Faster]

What are you using to generate smoke?

You will laugh , it's a colander stainless steel from a 1 dollar shop, that is pushed down so it makes a donut 10" across and burns about 6 hours. And a maze, that goes for 12 hours, light on smoke.
Only draw back is it uses fine sawdust.
I like an air pump assisted SS tube generator...Christmas coming you never know, I might give a hint to my kids...

 

[Faster]

You have a winner !! I like it my fellow SMF buddy.; I have one very similar,, you enjoy thatbc it will serve you well for a long time.

HT

Thank you my friend, glad to hear that.
It has 2 steel bars on top when I will make kabanosy, or smoked polish garlic sausage

You got some impressive arsenal of smoking-grinding-stuffing equipment.

I've been thinking about lining the side walls with polished sheet aluminum 1mm thick for easier cleaning And metal L brackets instead of wood

 

[Up_In_Smoke]

That really looks good!

Lining the walls with aluminum (and maybe the ceiling too??) would be a great idea.

 

[ifitsdeadsmokeit]

Very nice. Where did you get those vents?

 

[Faster]

Very nice. Where did you get those vents?

Thanks
The 2 small ones on Temu, the 100mm on Amazon. All are really good quality. Temu is dirt cheap like $2 per vent.

 

[Faster]

Very nice. Where did you get those vents?

Temu for smaller ones and Amazon for the top one. All are very good quality stainless steel

 

[Faster]

That really looks good!

Lining the walls with aluminum (and maybe the ceiling too??) would be a great idea.

Thank you, I'm definitely doing that, just got some sheet metal

 

[SMOKEOCD]

Since you’re building stuff, why not build your smoke generator as well? Aquarium pump and a tube ( stainless optional) is almost all there is to it. There’s at least a couple diy projects I’ve seen online. Your build looks good, that’s why I thought you could probably do the smoke generator yourself as well.

 

[Faster]

Since you’re building stuff, why not build your smoke generator as well? Aquarium pump and a tube ( stainless optional) is almost all there is to it. There’s at least a couple diy projects I’ve seen online. Your build looks good, that’s why I thought you could probably do the smoke generator yourself as well.

Thank you, I tried, but I was not happy with resuls, the inside of the smoke generator was getting really badly stained with tar and oils and gunk so I decided to use an "offset cold smokegen" which consist of a small trash can with lid and an aluminum flexible hose (100mm diameter x 1m long) attached to it, that goes into the smoker.
Inside of the trash can is a coil smoke generator and smoke travels through the aluminum pipe into the smoker.
All the impurities get trapped in the pipe and cold smoke goes in the smoker.
It works really well.
Kind of wanted this one, but they are hard to contact...

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4362992825/tiskre-do-sg2-cold-smoke-generator

 

[old sarge]

Sweet!