My custom vent system

Crazy Cajun

I rigged this up to keep smoke off my screened in porch! Works great and draw is just fine when smoking!

4Runner

How do you open the dome? Is it a pain to unhook?

anton

Ingenious sir! Flex duct lifts right off, and moves when you open lid, I like it.

SoCalTim

Confused. I get not wanting smoke in the screen porch area, but ... doesn't the smoke get in the screen porch area when you open the dome lid to say, take an internal temp or add sauce to ribs or any number of other things?

bcsnave

SoCalTim said:

Confused. I get not wanting smoke in the screen porch area, but ... doesn't the smoke get in the screen porch area when you open the dome lid to say, take an internal temp or add sauce to ribs or any number of other things?

Timmy..timmy..timmy....why you gotta be such a hater..

 

Let the dude enjoy his contraption..

SGH

Just curious. Does it affect your temp control? I ask because I rigged something similar on my large vertical and it either run 400+ or not at all. Just curious how it did on the egg. All that said I like it. Wish it would have worked on my vertical. But atlas, no avail.

SoCalTim

@bcsnave‌ ... lol, not hating ... just really curious.

Bustersdad

@Crazy Cajun, have similar situation...how's the ventilation system working?  I am in Michigan and Egg'n in the winter would be much nicer inside my screen porch...been thinking of something very much like your solution to keep the black smoke collecting on the ceiling and windows.

travisstrick

bcsnave said:

SoCalTim said:

Confused. I get not wanting smoke in the screen porch area, but ... doesn't the smoke get in the screen porch area when you open the dome lid to say, take an internal temp or add sauce to ribs or any number of other things?

Timmy..timmy..timmy....why you gotta be such a hater..

 

Let the dude enjoy his contraption..

Just the laugh I needed to start my day. That there is funny.

KiterTodd

4Runner said:

How do you open the dome? Is it a pain to unhook?

The moment right after he finished the chimney and was getting ready to light the egg...

Crazy Cajun

The hose is flex so it removes easily. The purpose is to relocate the heavy smoke when smoking, not to make it smoke free! I smoked wings yesterday at 300F and it held constant temp. When it was smoking heavy, I elevated the vent about 6" above the damper just to see how much smoke would draw up and almost all of it did. When done that way, it would not affect the temps at all.

Lit

I use almost the exact set up but smaller for cold smoking. I run that from the top of my mini to the bottom vent of my large and put whatever I want to smoke in the large. Works good. Cool setup.

fishlessman

i like the idea. not sure if it will collect grease, i would keep an eye out for that for a while

Gogogordy

Not glamorous, but ingenious. Needs a little polish before you take it mass-market )

TigerTony

Cajun ingenuity at it's finest!
I like it. I'd invest.
Lets geaux on Shark Tank. =D>

bbqlearner

Awesome set up! I've been thinking about doing similar set up and this just gives me a lot of insight into what I need to do. Bookmarked.

MeTed

I like it, great idea!

Terrebandit

You could get one of those temperature controllers with a hose and it would match this set up. Seriously, I think it's neat, especially if you can maintain dome temps less than 300.

Ladeback69

You could probably add a vent damper in the pipe to control temp like in a wood burning stove.

Crazy Cajun

Good idea. Send me Rock's Stoker and I'll let you know if it works.

jscarfo

I just did this in my garage for winter cooks

Tjcoley

I hope you all have a good CO detector.