- Sep 4, 2019
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Hey everyone. New to the forum, but this seems like the place to be! I am an adventurous cook and builder. I tend to get interested in various forms of cooking and go way too deep into them. Luckily I work for a place called FirstBuild (innovation space for GE Appliances) and get to play around with food and building appliances to make food better pretty much every day!
Kinda quick story about how I got into smoking.....
It started about two years ago when me and the guys at work built a fridge smoker out of a 1950's GE refrigerator from Craig's list. We gutted it, lined it with oven insulation, built a stainless steel liner for it, added oven racks, a Bradley smoke generator, an oven calrod with a PID controller that we designed, and made an app for it so that we could monitor and control it remotely.
Then we started having BBQ Wednesdays for everyone at the shop... Pretty fun. We keep refining the design of it to fix rookie mistakes, but overall it is pretty awesome. We are working on a V3 of it now.
We designed, build an sell an indoor pizza oven (very high end) that is ventless and uses a smoke elimination tech to achieve it. We took that same tech and applied it to out 50's fridge smoker and it worked! We were able to run the fridge smoker inside our facility with no visible smoke. It just smelled like you were making a roast in a crock pot. People would come through on tours and see it and were blown away and said they wanted it in their house, and since our job is basically building new home appliances, we decided to try to make something that could be used on a counter-top. We have prototypes that work (have used them in my home) and we are working towards making it into something that could be commercialized. Happy to share more details if people are interested.
I wanted to join the forum to share the fun stuff we are working on, help other people who are trying to build smokers, and learn more about what makes great smoked food. It has definitely been a learning experience and like everything else, the more I learn, the more I realized I don't know!
Looking forward to being part of this community.
On a side note, I am also rebuilding a '78 Land Cruiser FJ40.....
Kinda quick story about how I got into smoking.....
It started about two years ago when me and the guys at work built a fridge smoker out of a 1950's GE refrigerator from Craig's list. We gutted it, lined it with oven insulation, built a stainless steel liner for it, added oven racks, a Bradley smoke generator, an oven calrod with a PID controller that we designed, and made an app for it so that we could monitor and control it remotely.
Then we started having BBQ Wednesdays for everyone at the shop... Pretty fun. We keep refining the design of it to fix rookie mistakes, but overall it is pretty awesome. We are working on a V3 of it now.
We designed, build an sell an indoor pizza oven (very high end) that is ventless and uses a smoke elimination tech to achieve it. We took that same tech and applied it to out 50's fridge smoker and it worked! We were able to run the fridge smoker inside our facility with no visible smoke. It just smelled like you were making a roast in a crock pot. People would come through on tours and see it and were blown away and said they wanted it in their house, and since our job is basically building new home appliances, we decided to try to make something that could be used on a counter-top. We have prototypes that work (have used them in my home) and we are working towards making it into something that could be commercialized. Happy to share more details if people are interested.
I wanted to join the forum to share the fun stuff we are working on, help other people who are trying to build smokers, and learn more about what makes great smoked food. It has definitely been a learning experience and like everything else, the more I learn, the more I realized I don't know!
Looking forward to being part of this community.
On a side note, I am also rebuilding a '78 Land Cruiser FJ40.....
