Building a smokehouse

Royal Coachmen

I have no reason to build a smokehouse because I have two eggs...however...they look really cool. Has anyone built a small smokehouse? One that has adequate airflow and is the size of a large BGE or smaller? 

Focker

Have considered it, just for the cool factor..  There are some really nice smokehouses on smokingmeatforum.com

I now hang my stuff vertically in the Weber smoker with a Pro-Q, and a hot plate if necessary.  Which really hinders my desires to build.  You could cold smoke in a cardboard box if needed, with no difference in results.

Theophan

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Focker said:

... There are some really nice smokehouses on smokingmeatforum.com...

DO NOT GO TO THAT ADDRESS!!!

I did, and I got what I'm sure is a scam that would have installed malware on my computer!!!!!

The real address has an "s" at the end.  It's not "smokingmeatforum.com" singular, it's smokingmeatforums.com PLURAL.

When I went to the other one (without the "s"), up popped a thing that claimed I had an outdated Flash player, and it wanted me to click on it to update Flash.  I was suspicious and closed the page.  I then went to Adobe myself, directly, and downloaded and installed the current Flash player, and then, knowing I had the latest, REAL Adobe Flash player, I tried that link again, and again it claimed I had the wrong thing and wanted to install it.

So I did a search for smoking meat forum, and found the real address was one letter different.  I really think that other one is a scam, and is trying to infect computers with something by pretending it's a Flash installer.

Royal Coachmen

@Focker it really is more for the "cool" factor than anything else. I really just needed someone to tell me to be satisfied with my egg and talk me off the ledge of building one. 

Carolina Q

I've never built one and the only one I have ever seen was George Washington's. Yes, that GW. He grew up near where did (a few years earlier) and they had a smokehouse on the farm. This is the place where he supposedly cut down the cherry tree.

I assume what I saw was supposed to be a reconstruction of the original. It looked like this when I was a kid. It was a fairly deep hole in the ground as I recall. They built the fire down in it and hung the meat from the rafters. Or something like that. Last time I saw it, I was probably 12-15 years old. Could very well have the story mixed up a bit. 

The last time I was there was last summer. It had been filled in and the roof was gone. That leads me to believe that it wasn't historically accurate. Otherwise, I would have thought they would have preserved it.

Anyway, GW slept here.