Old oven conversion

[bigzee44]

Hey All,

I have always wanted to get into smoking and i recently came in to an old comercial double door portable oven (its on wheels) from a school district kitchen. Dimentions are 4ft x 3ft x 2ft. Heating element is broke.

I think it would be a great to convert into a smoker but i am not sure how to go about it.

I dont know what the best conversion could be gas, electric or wood fire. I dont want to spend a bunch of money and butcher the oven too bad only to realize later that it was a mistake.

Any help would be great.

Zack

 

[fireguy]

Hey welcome, stop by roll call , it a tradition...As for your oven is there a broiler element in it you could use or swithc with the other??

 

[travcoman45]

Zack, post some pictures of the thing so we see what we have to work with. Been's it's electric already I'd probably stick with that. Next gotta find a way of gettin some smoke in that box. Here again, pictures will help a bunch.

Good luck.

 

[teeotee]

Hi ya Zack

Not sure if this thread will help ya, if nothing else may give you some ideas.

http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/for...ight=the+beast

 

[bigzee44]

Thanks for the info. Ill try to get some pictures up some time soon but i have the thing in storage right now since winter never ends here. 6+ inches of snow this morning! Hopefully we will get some good weather and i can get it outside to work on it.
thanks again,
Zack