Waming oven smoker build

[Bruce C]

Picked up a Cres Cor warming oven at a garage sale back in the summer for the whole summer of $1 dollar thinking it might make a good smoker. Had intension of using a different heating element and a PDI controller. Started working on it the other day and thought I would see if worked. Plug it in and the first setting heated to 130° it has 10 setting total and on 8 it is about 210° so I thought I would try using the factory control and built in heating elements which it has 3 of. If it won't work the way I want I will add the PDI and heating element later. Here are some pictures of what I started with and what I have done so far. I also added a Smoke Daddy cold smoke generator for the smoke. Any different ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. I will need to add a drip pan before I use it but it will be close to spring before I have a chance to try it out.

 

[jimmyh]

I haven’t been on this forum in years but came to check it out again as I’m looking at building another smoke house.

Your build should work very well. I’d like to find something similar for similar money!