I-am-Chorizo
Smoke Blower
It's been a while since my last thread
As things were getting serious with smoking, a year and a half ago I finally changed my "DIY" cardboard smoker to a "DIY" wooden smoker without much "Design thoughts".
It worked pretty well. Some design flaws started appearing over time but it kept getting the job done until tragedy hit 3 days ago in the middle of production (about 50 pounds of already cured sausages/bacon). The Smoker set aflame and burned down to crisp. All hard work lost in a few minutes.
Saddly, it turned into charcoal...I had to react quickly and solve the problem due to the amount of sausages and bacon waiting for smoking. So I rushed to a metal workshop, handed the guy rather sketchy plans of the smoker I had just lost and added a few comments (vertical smokers are practically unknown in my city, most people use small drums) and told him it was a death/life struggle. After two days, this is what I got:
What are your opinions, suggestions? Do you guys see potential or manifest mistakes? it was about $573 (using the exchange rate from Colombian pesos to USD) The material the used was Stainless Steel (Cold rolled sheet cal.20) and it has no iron frame.
I cleaned it throughly and started smoking right away...from the Parade to the front...It seems to work well, Just gets very hot in the outside. So this is my sad story...what do you guys think?
Greetings
Albert
As things were getting serious with smoking, a year and a half ago I finally changed my "DIY" cardboard smoker to a "DIY" wooden smoker without much "Design thoughts".
It worked pretty well. Some design flaws started appearing over time but it kept getting the job done until tragedy hit 3 days ago in the middle of production (about 50 pounds of already cured sausages/bacon). The Smoker set aflame and burned down to crisp. All hard work lost in a few minutes.
Saddly, it turned into charcoal...I had to react quickly and solve the problem due to the amount of sausages and bacon waiting for smoking. So I rushed to a metal workshop, handed the guy rather sketchy plans of the smoker I had just lost and added a few comments (vertical smokers are practically unknown in my city, most people use small drums) and told him it was a death/life struggle. After two days, this is what I got:
What are your opinions, suggestions? Do you guys see potential or manifest mistakes? it was about $573 (using the exchange rate from Colombian pesos to USD) The material the used was Stainless Steel (Cold rolled sheet cal.20) and it has no iron frame.
I cleaned it throughly and started smoking right away...from the Parade to the front...It seems to work well, Just gets very hot in the outside. So this is my sad story...what do you guys think?
Greetings
Albert
