OT Cold Smokehouse Build

lkapigian

I had some Very Old Redwood Fencing @ my shop that came from my parents house and the house I was raised in. Mentioned to one of our Project Crew that I was wanting to build a Cold Smoker--He surprised me this weekend when he sent me these pictures, had no idea he was building it...Can't wait to see it finished.....Lot of old memories in a fence

Woodchunk

I see bacon and fish

Photo Egg

I thought the only smoke legally producible in CA was from marijuana?
Can't wait to se your final setup!

lkapigian

Photo Egg said:

I thought the only smoke legally producible in CA was from marijuana?
Can't wait to se your final setup!

Yes, it will double as a grow house as well 

dmourati

https://www.amazon.com/Smoking-Smokehouse-Design-Stanley-Marianski/dp/0982426704/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&qid=1519069587&sr=8-13&keywords=smoking+meats

And we vape out here now.

lkapigian

Coming Along

Woodchunk

Nice, how will the firebox work?

thetrim

That looks great!   As long as no one (@dmw) mistakes it for another type of house outside.  

lkapigian

Woodchunk said:

Nice, how will the firebox work?

For the most part just A-MAZE-N Pellet Smoker as I am just cold smoking however I will have 2 Other options if I want to Hot Smoke 1) Weber JR just sitting inside or 2) I have an old wood stove on my Patio I will just run a duct in the back or use my Mini Egg and duct it in...

lkapigian

Fitting it with a Tel Tru , I know its a high range but I had a spare 

NPHuskerFL

We were rigging an old 1/2ass working single door reach-in blast freezer as a cold smoker. Ran outta spare time and it ended up in the scrap yard in the sky. May visit that again one day. It was appealing because we could have used it around here in Florida. Although it would not suffice as a blast freezer any longer it did hold easily as low as 15°

lkapigian

@NPHuskerFL that sounds awesome !... I'm seriously thinking about putting an outhouse style seat in there and let the smoke come through the seat 

20stone

A few thought on this:

• I am so, so jealous. With our various pork related ventures, I've thought about at least building a temporary smoke house for sausages. Even the dishwasher struggles under the mass of sausage we produce
• I love the repurposing of the old fence.   That is super cool
• With a setup like that, I would be tempted (very tempted) to roll with a live fire. Sticks in a stove through a duct would be my first attempt. Yes, I use an AMazN Smoker for cold smoking, but, to me, pellets leave something to be desired (philosophically, if not in the end product), and I would be loathe to sully a smokehouse so fine with some cheapa$$ industrial would pellet product. Burn a stick, man!

lkapigian

@20stone I have a couple old cast iron stoves in my patio I am probably going to duct 1 into it some day....on another note I have a fully functional SS commercial dishwasher ( the kind you slide food trays in ) sitting in my shop you can have I'd gladly ship it to you , ill send you pictures Monday if you'd like to see it ...Gratis mind you 

nolaegghead

Put a 5000 btu window unit in it so you can cold smoke

nolaegghead

Any external fire with a duct into the smokehouse will lower the temp and the ducting will clean up the smoke...I like the wood oven idea.

lkapigian

Thanks @nolaegghead

20stone

lkapigian said:

@20stone I have a couple old cast iron stoves in my patio I am probably going to duct 1 into it some day....on another note I have a fully functional SS commercial dishwasher ( the kind you slide food trays in ) sitting in my shop you can have I'd gladly ship it to you , ill send you pictures Monday if you'd like to see it ...Gratis mind you 

So, you've seen my garage. 

The dishwasher I was referencing before is actually a Karubeque stick burber smoker, which can also be rigged with an AMazN Smoker for cold smoking. 

As for your dishwasher, though it has been a while, I have used one of those in a professional capacity. Having one in the G'raj Mahal for a pig day would be absolutely devine. Alas, no more room. Thanks for the offer, though. That would kick a$$

lkapigian

Yes I've seen that but I think a commercial washer would look like in that Garage 

lkapigian

Almost 

lkapigian

Delivered to my shop today ,its impressive and solid as a rock...just going to mount wooden 1xs on each side for a simple rack system made of sodden dowels 

HendersonTRKing

That's the definition of awesome on wheels.

lkapigian

thanks @HendersonTRKing I think I am going to have to Crane it into my back yard

Austin Egghead

Very interesing and nice work.  #1 son wants to build a smoke house, I will be sending him the link.

alaskanassasin

 No concerns with formaldehyde in the mdf?

HeavyG

lkapigian said:

thanks @HendersonTRKing I think I am going to have to Crane it into my back yard

Is it an inch too wide to fit thru a fence gate? I did that once.

I didn't see a ridge cap in your photos - are you not putting one on?

lkapigian

HeavyG said:

lkapigian said:

thanks @HendersonTRKing I think I am going to have to Crane it into my back yard

Is it an inch too wide to fit thru a fence gate? I did that once.

I didn't see a ridge cap in your photos - are you not putting one on?

@HeavyG just put it on

lkapigian

alaskanassasin said:

 No concerns with formaldehyde in the mdf?

@alaskanassasin, not really I am going to put a Weber Jr in there and run the temp up and get it to speed up the Off Gassing, I don't think it will be an issue after that I will be keeping it under 100 and "hoping" that seasoning with cut down on the porosity of the material---I will be keeping the door Open for quite a while

But it is an excellent point

lkapigian

Austin Egghead said:

Very interesing and nice work.  #1 son wants to build a smoke house, I will be sending him the link.

thanks @Austin Egghead

alaskanassasin

lkapigian said:

alaskanassasin said:

 No concerns with formaldehyde in the mdf?

@alaskanassasin, not really I am going to put a Weber Jr in there and run the temp up and get it to speed up the Off Gassing, I don't think it will be an issue after that I will be keeping it under 100 and "hoping" that seasoning with cut down on the porosity of the material---I will be keeping the door Open for quite a while

But it is an excellent point

 Sounds good! Looks awesome!

LRW

Looks good. My only concern with this build is the use of OSB. It has a lot of glue in it and other chemicals.