The smoke generator is a compact device designed for functioning in conditions of small rooms (for example, a typical kitchen in the panel house), the dimensions of which allow it to be stored both in the garage or in the country and in the apartment. It is compactness in combination with high efficiency and served as the causes of the high popularity of smoked smoked smoke agents.
Easy, the possibility of self-assembly, efficiency and reliability - the list of advantages of the smoke generator does not ends with this, but these qualities are enough to pay attention to it and consider carefully.
What are smoke generators and what are
When smoking, the traditional Dedovsky method requires a smokehouse, which occupies a lot of space. The source of smoke is a bonfire located in a small closed container with holes for imaging air and a channel for the removal of smoke, in which lamps are littering from solid rocks. For cold smoking, a smoke that will not bake products be cooled to an acceptable temperature. For the cooler of the smoke, the smoke cabinet was installed at a fire from a fire sufficient to cool the smoke during its passage through the connecting channel. In practice, the deepening in the earth for a fire, from which a small trench was most often turned out.
Primitive, but effective and no costs.
In the conditions of the country area or a modern apartment, this method is unreal. But lovers of smoked bass or fish did not stop. A smoke generator was designed, replacing a traditional source of smoke. Moreover, the replacement was much more convenient and more efficient than the prototype. Development was adopted as homemade craftsmen and producers of smoked products in large volumes. Today there are many types of smoke generators. The design of the resulting smoke generators:
- Dechenes. Sawders are placed on a heated surface, or exposed to burning gas.
- Friction, or frictional smoke generators. Smoke arises from friction of a rotating metal disk about a tree.
- Steam generators. Smoke arises from the contact of sawdust with overheated steam, drowned through their thickness.
It is also possible to divide the smoke generators according to the solution of sawdust - continuous or periodic, the same with removal of ash. All these designs refer to industrial, since for home use the most simple device with smoldering sawdust or chip is used. The submission of the material is carried out as it burns out, usually one download is enough for a long time, even very small smoke generators can act about 5-6 hours.
Dimogenerator operation scheme
The operation of the smoke generator is based on the principle of the withdrawal of smoke in the smoke cabinet with the help of an exciting air flow created by the compressor or fan. As a tank, a metal cylinder with a closed bottom is most often used, tightly covered on top of the lid. The loading of the chips is made from above, for accessing the air and to ignite the chips at the bottom of the case, make one or more holes. The withdrawal of smoke is carried out through the hole in the upper (sometimes - in the bottom, which is not quite correct) parts of the case. There are options for the withdrawal of smoke through the lid.
A pipe with a tee is screwed onto an opening hole, one end of which is connected to a smoke cabinet, and the second - with a compressor (fan), which provides a mesmer stream of air, breathtaking smoke and outputting it into the closet.
This design has advantages:
- Efficiency. Compared with traditional location, wood consumption decreases many times.
- Lack of smoke leaks. The device works in a closed volume, without smoking everything around.
- Ability to work in automatic mode. This refers to the absence of the need to constantly be near and look after nothing to extinct or, on the contrary, did not catch up. The traditional method required constant control over the state of the fire, as the lamps go beyond pretty quickly, why the smoking process stops.
- The ability to quickly adjust smoke temperature using the change in the air flow rate or change the length of the tube connecting the smoke generator with a smoke cabinet.
Easy device makes it available for self-making. At the same time, possible errors can be eliminated without any costs and in the shortest possible time.
Cold smoked smoking size for smoke generator
It is believed that the size of the smoke cabinet has no restrictions. However, if a small household smoke generator attach to a container by several tons of products, no effect will turn out. Therefore, it is necessary to relate the performance of the source of smoke with the volume of the cabinet so that it is sufficiently filled with smoke. Factory models of smoke generators have a passport, which indicates the optimal volume of the cabinet. The homemade generator is connected to the container, selected experimentally. The ratio of the generator volumes and the cabinet is precisely difficult to indicate, since in this case the productivity plays a role, and it has different devices. In practice, the cabinet is most often used by a capacity of about 0.3 cubic meters, although each harass create its own size, depending on the amount of products.
Drawings of smoke generators
There are many drawings on the network that can be used for independent manufacture of the smoke generator.
It should be borne in mind that the exact following is not critical of the specified size, since the device is very steadily in operation and allows some deviations from the drawing.
