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Who downvotes a post like this?

Bravo gumbo2176! Can you share more about your cold smoke rig?

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Bravo gumbo2176! Can you share more about your cold smoke rig?

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A few years ago I built my own smoke box that stands 6 ft tall, approx. 2 ft. wide and 20 inches deep. It has 3 heavy wire metal shelves in it and the area where the pan with the coals and wood used for smoking/cooking go on the bottom.

The actual smoking chamber is about 4 ft tall by the other dimensions with an area under it to store wood, coals, axe and other equipment used.

I also built a much smaller box to use when cold smoking. It is big enough to place a single element electric heat plate with a stainless bowl on top of it. It has one door for easy access to add wood chips and adjust the heat plate setting.

I cut a 3 x 4 hole in the top of the box and attached a gutter downspout starter facing up. To that, I attach a 5 ft. long piece of downspout and run it to a hole in the side of my homemade smoker. This allows me to get smoke to the smoke box without any heat and that is how I cold smoke things like fish, oysters, cheeses, etc.


I can also use the big box of the smoker to cook things like ribs, chickens, briskets, dry my homemade jerky, etc. by filling a stainless tray with charcoals and topping that off with wood chunks for the smoke. I can hold 250 pretty easily to cook or down to 160 if making jerky or smoking pork bellies for bacon.


Oh, and as for the downvoter, I think I have a serial downvoter who will automatically lay one on me no matter what I post. I swear, I could post that today's weather is great, clear skies, cool temperatures, hope everyone has a nice day and some malcontent will drop a downvote on it. People like that are too stupid to know they're stupid.