Almost everyone loves smoked products, fish or home-smoked meat is especially tasty, when you know for sure that no preservatives were added during the cooking process, and especially smoking smoke (various meat processing plants are very fond of it to reduce the cost of production). The smoking process itself takes a long time, so the equipment should not fail. If you decide to make a smoke generator for cold smoking with your own hands, the drawings and some features of the assembly of the device, given below, will come in handy for you.
Homemade smoke generator option
One of the main elements for quality smoking is the source of the smoke. Usually shavings or sawdust are used, which are slowly burned inside the generator. At the same time, you can assemble your home smoke generator in such a way that one load of firewood will be enough to work offline for 24 hours. To do this, it is enough to reduce the air flow and increase the volume of chips in the loading chamber.
There are also a lot of assembly options, it all depends on the technical capabilities and goals of creation. There are three main elements, without which the operation of any device will not function correctly:
- Container (combustion chamber);
- Ejector;
- Air pump.
At the same time, in the process of smoking products, there are subtleties that must be observed:
- Minimum smoke intake temperature;
- Duration of the process;
- Do not use coniferous sawdust;
- All products are pre-cleaned before smoking.
To comply with all these features of the process, you need to collect the main elements correctly and carefully. And to make the products in your homemade smokehouse especially tasty, it is recommended to use chips of alder, cherry, apple, pear or willow.
Useful information! When your smoker is ready, try different wood chips to find the best one for you, each one giving a different flavor.
We turn to the features of the main elements of the smoke generator and their assembly.
We make a smoke generator for cold smoking with our own hands: drawings of the main elements and assembly procedure
First you need to prepare the elements that will be required to assemble the equipment. You can use the following drawing in your work:
So, to install a smoke generator for a cold-smoked smokehouse with your own hands, you will need:
- A pipe, usually stainless steel is used. Section - 100 x 100 mm (it is recommended to take a diameter of 10–12 cm for a round pipe).
- Parts of a metal pipe up to 400 mm, with a diameter of 2.5-4.0 cm (usually used for hot smoking).
- Plastic corrugated pipe 2-3 mm or a metal sleeve, the diameter of which will correspond to the chimney pipe.
- Compressor (you can take the aquarium version).
- T-piece with a section corresponding to the diameter of the flue duct.
- Wires for connecting elements and.
- Thermometer.
All components are on sale, and often even at your fingertips, so getting them is not difficult. There are also a lot of drawings, you can find it on the Internet and choose the one that suits your idea.
To connect the elements, also prepare a welding machine and a grinder. If you have never worked with them, then it is better to invite someone more experienced to help. The main difficulty lies in welding the union, making the door for the firebox and removable covers from below and from above.
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We assemble a smoke generator with our own hands for cold smoking: video of the process
When you have prepared the drawings of the smoke generator for cold smoking, we proceed to the assembly of the parts. Here are the main elements and the sequence for assembling the equipment:
- First, we cut off a piece of pipe for the body (0.5 - 0.8 m).
- We make the upper and lower covers for the outer diameter of this segment. In this case, the bottom should be with bumpers on the sides so that the ash does not fly out.
- From the sides of the base, slightly above the sides, drill several holes that will serve for ignition and oxygen supply (diameter 0.6 - 0.8 cm)
- To make it convenient to use the smoke generator, weld on the legs, which should be about 15 - 20 cm high.
Note! If you are using a removable bottom, then the side doors in the firebox are not required. For a deaf person - make a door and put it on several hinges, while it is necessary to make slots for air intake as in conventional ovens.
- The top cover must fit snugly onto the pipe, and it is also necessary to additionally make a piece to be able to open the unit.
- Now we weld the chimney on top of the base, retreating 50 - 80 mm from the cut.
- Weld the fitting perpendicular to the wall, you must keep the protrusion 60 - 80 mm long. Before welding, the ends of the workpiece should be threaded for a tee.
- After welding, attach a tee, and to it 2 pipes - one down, the second to the smokehouse. cold smoked smoke generator on popular online magazine HouseChief.ru .
- Place the generator on a base that must be made of non-combustible items such as a concrete slab.
- Put in about 0.5 - 1 liter of dry wood chips.
- Connect the pipe and chimney with the smoking chamber.
- Ignite the wood chips using the special drilled holes.
- Start the fan.
- If you do not want to assemble such a unit yourself, you can buy a smoke generator for cold smoking, the price of which will differ depending on the performance, chamber volume and firm.
- When assembling a smoke generator for cold or hot smoking, do not forget to use the drawings and prepare all the elements for assembly in advance.
- How well the unit will work depends on the correct assembly sequence and good welding. You can also try sawdust and chips of different types of trees to understand which shade of taste you like best.
Smoke generator for cold smoking (video)
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Features of the work of a homemade smoke generator for cold smoking
When you have already assembled a smoke generator for cold smoking with your own hands (drawings and other assembly tips are presented above), then it remains only to consider the process of smoking products itself.
For the correct process of preparing cold smoked products, we collect all the elements into one system:
The process has begun, a tee acts as an injector. If you have assembled everything correctly, then the combustion process will occur independently and you will not need additional participation in the operation of the device.
Note! You can change the temperature yourself by changing the length of the chimney.
When assembling a smoke generator for cold smoking with your own hands according to the drawings, it is quite possible to use a pan, a can, and other containers in the form of a cylinder as a body. You can assemble a model without a fan, but it will function worse, since most often the natural draft is not enough for an effective process of preparing delicacies.
