The difficulty is that smoking is a long-term process and requires not only proper equipment, but also a solid stock of firewood, if you use the smokehouse of the traditional design, in which firewood is burned. Such smoking lasts up to several days when constantly maintaining burning in the furnace.
But from this situation, the inventive thought also found an output - a smoke generator for smokehouse. The main and only appointment of the smoke generator is the production of a significant amount of smoke and its feed in the smoking cabinet, where the blanks are placed. As a result of interaction with the smoke, a number of chemical reactions occur in the products, a number of chemical reactions occur in products that turn them into well-digestible organism and delicious products.
The smoke generator for smokehouse is a fairly simple, but an extraordinarily effective device that can be made with his own hands from the girlfriend. The whole attractiveness of the smokegenerator is that it can work in automatic mode. In the smoke wardrobe, the temperature is achieved not too high, so fear that the products are burnt, should not.
Design of smoke generator
Conditional drawing of the smoke generator
Source of smoke serve sawdust, chips or chips, slowly smoldering inside the generator. The secret of the installation is how to ensure constant uniform burning and how to give smoke to the smoke cabinet. To collect a smoke generator for smokehouse in the conditions of a home workshop you will need:
Components are easily accessible and inexpensive
As can be seen - the list is not very long, while all components can be easily bought in the store or, good search, find in your own garage or a home workshop. Drawings and instructions for assembling the smoke generator for smokehouse - in abundance on the Internet.
To build a smoke generator with your own hands, you will need another welding machine, Bulgarian and some skills to work with them. The main difficulty consists in welding the chimney fitting to the pipe, the manufacture of doors for the furnace and removable bottom and top covers. But first things first.
Stages of the assembly of the smoke generator
First of all, it is necessary to cut off from the pipe intended for the hull, a piece of 0.5 - 0.8 m long. Under its external dimensions of the sheet metal, the bottom and cover are manufactured. The bottom must have sidelights so that the body tightly went inside and the ashes of the burnt sawdust did not pumped out. In the lateral part of the case, slightly above the bottom of the bottom, several holes that serve to ignite fuel and access of oxygen for combustion are drilled. The diameter of them is 0.6 - 0.8 cm.
In the smoke generator housing, it is necessary to do a hole for ignition and access of oxygen.
For the convenience of the use and stability of the smoke generator, the legs are welded to the base with a height of 15-20 cm or a flat site.
In the case of a removable bottom, the door for the furnace in the side wall is not needed. If the bottom is provided deaf, then you need to make side doors on the loops, with slots for the inflow of air, like the furnace. It is somewhat more complicated, but it is possible to make it yourself. The top cover is deaf, without chimney and ventilation holes. It should also go tightly on the pipe and be equipped with a handle - a bracket for opening a smoke generator.
In the upper part of the case, the chimney is turned out, at a distance of 5 - 8 cm from the cutting of the pipe. The fitting is boiled perpendicular to the wall and must perform from the wall by 6 - 8 cm. Before welding works at its external end, it is necessary to cut the fitting thread (tee). After connecting the chimney, the tee and two tubes are connected to it - one goes down, the other to the smokehouse.
One of the options for performing a smoke generator for smoking with a tee
A tube from the compressor is connected to the junction that goes down, the connecting pipe leading to the smoke cabinet is connected. As a fan, you can use a compressor from aquarium, a cooler from a computer or something similar - it is important to create not too powerful, but a constant flow of air directed to the container in which smoking occurs.
Compressor can be made from the cooler and bottle
As an option, the tee can be connected to the lid of the smoke generator without affecting the integrity of the side wall. In this case, the lower nozzle is connected to the lid, the rear is to the air duct from the compressor, the front - to the smokehouse.
Smoke generator for smokehouse with the upper arrangement of tee
That's all - the smoke generator for smoking is ready.
How it works
Smokehouse with a smoke generator, built with your own hands is very mobile and compact. In idle condition, it can be stored in the garage, basement, even a closet. This is dependent on what is used as, actually, smoking. For the camera, you can use any metallic box of suitable size. If you are not ready, you can do it with your own hands without any problems. Dimensions of the box are different, depending on what volumes you will smoke.
For homemade smoked, the size is optimal - 1.0 / 0.6 / 0.6 m (V / sh / g). From above, the box is closed with a lid with a mounted thermometer and several small (0.3 -0.5 mm) holes for creating thrust. The upper part of the smokehouse in working condition should be above the smoke generator - it creates an additional natural craving, and even, when stopping the fan, smoke will flow into the chamber without delay.
Now you need to collect everything:
- We establish a generator on a non-heat base - a metal table, a concrete slab or floor, ceramic tiles. This needs to be done from fire safety reasons. In addition to the fact that the smoke generator is quite heated, pieces of burning chips can fall out of it.
- In the smoke generator, we load approximately 0.5 - 1 liters of dry chips, sawdust, chips of deciduous trees (the coniferous for smoking is not used) and tightly close it with a lid.
- Connect the compressor nozzle and connect the chimney with the smoking chamber.
- Gilt the fuel through the side opening.
- Turn on the fan.
The smoking process began. The tutor with the fan acts as an injector. The chimney pipe creates a vacuum that causes the smoke from the generator, and a rather tangible air-chimney is directed towards the smoke cabinet. At the same time, air flow is formed in the outside, through the side openings in the smoke generator. The combustion is supported by itself and human intervention is not required.
Through the inserted, the temperature inside the cabinet is controlled.
With the help of increasing or decreasing the length of the chimney, you can adjust the smoking temperature, therefore, to use hot or cold smoking. For hot smoking, the smoke generator fitting is directly connected to the smoking chamber.
The dimensions of the smoke generator are averaged. With its construction, you can proceed from the available materials and components. For example, beadones, saucepans, any cylindrical metal cylindrical tanks can be used as a housing. As a "smoking", any pipe is suitable, resistant to high temperatures (but metalworking is best). Without a fan, the smoke generator also works, but not so efficiently - the natural thrust is too weak and the smoking process is stretched over time.
