Smoking in Winter

[mballi3011]

Lat me start this with saying that I love Florida. Ok now you can use a welding blanket or get some insulation blankets. They will help keep the heat in during your cold weather smoking.

 

[smokegoddess]

Winnipeg, MB, Canada - we are cold and I still smoke. No winter blankets and no special boxes, I pull the smoker in the garage and make sure the doors are open, just to get it out of the wind. FYI - I'm talking -30 with the windchill.

 

[freedem]

Is it possible to smoke cold during winter by minus outside?

I know about the wind etc. but what about the sweat inside the smoker because it is outside wormer then the inside even cold smoking isn't much warm at all yet still warmer and the oven sweat a lot the meet gets wet and the smoke don't go in the meet this way.

So what should I do to keep the inside dry the meet dry and not getting frozen during outside smoking.

There has to be some ways to be able to smoke cold during winter time, isn't there any? and how?

Thanks for any great advice. I don't live in Florida but in cold communist Germany where prices constantly going up as Merkel steel all our money without ever asking us. Now times getting so bad it is better to support our self by try to as much as possible on our own to save as much money as possible, besides it is fun and taste better.

Thanks Frau Merkel and real thanks to anybody who real have a great idea to help me succeed.  

 

[801driver]

I use a Smoke-it 2 Electric year round in NE Oklahoma on my deck that is a little protected from the Noth wind but still has swirls.  Put a PB on when it got down to about 10 one night and it worked well. 

Great insulation suggestions here.  Also how about a sheet of plywood for wind brake or moving it to the down wind side of the house to keep as much as the raw wind off of it?

Good luck to you.

 

[gearjammer]

Sometimes I have to pick my days,

but I smoke all winter long.

It can get to -25 or -30 F here without any windchill figured in.

I use a wireless thermometer so I don't have to stand out there very long.

Dang it's going to be 55 here all week, pretty crazy, but very nice.

  Ed

 

[wade]

It is all a balance between the heat produced and the heat lost. You just need to try to minimise the heat loss as much as you can. Sheltering from the wind is the most important hut if you have somewhere more sheltered - like a well ventilated outhouse/shed - then that is even better.

 

[GaryHibbert]

Our prevailing wind is from the NW, so I keep my MES on the deck on the sheltered side.  This winter, I'll be investing in a welding blanket and modifying it to fit.

Gary

 

[remsr]

I live in Minnesota where the weather is constantly crapy, it blows and pours rain in the summer and is often hot and muggy.
In the winter it blows and snows with temps often below 0 and in the -30's and colder.
I love smoking, but I'm not going out in minus weather for any reason if I can help it. Unfortunately I have to remove snow from the drive way but then I'm done with it. My truck sets outside the garage year round but it has auto start and even turns the heated seats and steering wheel on when I start it remotely that's how I deal with the cold. That being said. I smoke lots in the summer and vacuum pack for winter when the weather is good and have just gotten into cold smoking in the winter when the weather is good. Here again I can monitor my smoke on my phone in a warm house so I spend as little time in the cold as possible and won't even attempt smoking if it's windy or below 0. I can't drag my smokes into the garage because they are in the back yard which is a 10 foot slope from the front with a walk out basement to the patio. it would be hard to move either of my smokers from back to front in the summer without 2 or 3 feet of snow to deal with.
Sorry about that I think I just needed to wine about the pending cold that I greatly dislike here in Minnesota.
Randy,