I found this forum while looking for smokehouse plans and have learned tons of information by searching around. Thank you for all the information that I have already been able to get from this site.
I am planning on a smokehouse with offset firebox, CMU foundation and Cedar house. I have two questions.
I have plenty of Eastern Red Cedar that I have the opportunity to mill and can use as siding. I have seen that smoking with eastern red cedar is a bad idea, would building the house out of eastern red cedar be a bad idea or would seasoning with a few burns fix this? I am hoping to cold, warm and hot smoke with this smokehouse.
I have seen the heat bypass and airflow image. I have not seen where anyone has placed a heat bypass directly over the firebox. I plan on using clay chimney flues instead of metal pipe to avoid the eventual rust/rot/replacement so I am stuck on ideas of how to incorporate the bypass directly over the firebox or in the clay flue.
I am planning on a smokehouse with offset firebox, CMU foundation and Cedar house. I have two questions.
I have plenty of Eastern Red Cedar that I have the opportunity to mill and can use as siding. I have seen that smoking with eastern red cedar is a bad idea, would building the house out of eastern red cedar be a bad idea or would seasoning with a few burns fix this? I am hoping to cold, warm and hot smoke with this smokehouse.
I have seen the heat bypass and airflow image. I have not seen where anyone has placed a heat bypass directly over the firebox. I plan on using clay chimney flues instead of metal pipe to avoid the eventual rust/rot/replacement so I am stuck on ideas of how to incorporate the bypass directly over the firebox or in the clay flue.