Attempted to cold smoke in the Akorn

[yo_quiero_fumar]

I managed to cold smoke some cheese in my Akorn. I started a very, very small fire in the grill, threw some mesquite wood chips in there, a pizza pan diffuser, a dutch oven bottom suspending a cheap block of cheddar cheese. When the temp hit about 150 I shut it down and it crept to 175 before dropping and after about 30 minutes I took the cheese out. A little more info and pics at http://smokinbbqdude.blogspot.com



Tried to today... heck yeah it was good!

[IrvinF]

I once made a smoke generator with some copper tubing, an can, an aluminum fence cap, and a fish aquarium pump. Worked pretty good on red oak wood chips out of my chipper. Seems like your could run the tubing in the bottom of the Akorn and do some lower temp cold smoking for a longer period if you wanted. I may still have it laying around and could get some pictures if you would like.

[yo_quiero_fumar]

I once made a smoke generator with some copper tubing, an can, an aluminum fence cap, and a fish aquarium pump. Worked pretty good on red oak wood chips out of my chipper. Seems like your could run the tubing in the bottom of the Akorn and do some lower temp cold smoking for a longer period if you wanted. I may still have it laying around and could get some pictures if you would like.

Hey that sounds cool! Yeah if you have pics upload em, I'd love to see your setup.

I have to admit this is a fairly boring blogpost, but I just finished a video for how to make kalua pork on a charcoal grill and it's pretty entertaining.

[raybonz]

I once made a smoke generator with some copper tubing, an can, an aluminum fence cap, and a fish aquarium pump. Worked pretty good on red oak wood chips out of my chipper. Seems like your could run the tubing in the bottom of the Akorn and do some lower temp cold smoking for a longer period if you wanted. I may still have it laying around and could get some pictures if you would like.

Just curious are you sure you used red oak? I tried it and found the food was horrible with way too much smoke taste! Red oak is very common here and I heard white oak was OK but that's not as common here.. I ended up tossing the red oak chunks into my kindling bucket for my woodstove..

Ray

[IrvinF]

I am positive. According to Wikipedia there are 600 species of oak. Which specific variety of red oak it was I have no idea.

[IrvinF]

Here is one method for making that works on the same venturi effect as the one I made but is quite different.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nDcfAWf_6rM

I will add a picture and explanation of mine shortly.

[IrvinF]

Here is the cold smoker I made:
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp30 ... IM3291.jpg
I used a can with a pull top so the aluminum fence cap would fit in without falling in. I drill four 1/4" holes just above the bottom and punched 7 smaller holes in the bottom of the can.

Drilled a hole in the fence cap to insert a section of 1/2" copper pipe, added a copper T and a two more sections of 1/2" copper to the T. I got some 3/16" copper tubing and inserted a section through a 1/2" plug and put in on the end of the shorter 1/2" tube and soldered every thing together except for the longer 1/2" pipe so I would clean it out.

At the bottom I have some of the red oak wood chips. I took a log and split it up into small sticks and droped in in the chipper. One 6" log makes over 5 gallons of wood chips by the way.

I connected a small aquarium pump to the small tube, filled up the can with chips and lit the chips though the bottom larger holes with a butane torch. Smokes for about an hour. You can keep filling up the can with chips if you want longer burns. If you don't want to make your own you can also buy them ready made from Smoke Daddy just do a google search.

[ero4444]

Excellent - been thinking about turning a $4 block of cheese into a $10 gormay cheese. I bet the high walls and sealing help a lot. Thanks.

[philpom]

Here is a link to a thread that shows the smoker I made that attaches to the AKORN. You can make more or less smoke and cooler or hotter by changing the amount of wood, burning charcoal and unlit charcoal. I've had it run for over 10 hours without adding fuel or wood.

http://kamadoguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1493

[Ross]

Here is the cold smoker I made:
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp30 ... IM3291.jpg

Back in the Sixties I made a contraption kinda like this... For burning Norwegian Wood!


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[yo_quiero_fumar]

Here is the cold smoker I made:
http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp30 ... IM3291.jpg
I used a can with a pull top so the aluminum fence cap would fit in without falling in. I drill four 1/4" holes just above the bottom and punched 7 smaller holes in the bottom of the can.

Drilled a hole in the fence cap to insert a section of 1/2" copper pipe, added a copper T and a two more sections of 1/2" copper to the T. I got some 3/16" copper tubing and inserted a section through a 1/2" plug and put in on the end of the shorter 1/2" tube and soldered every thing together except for the longer 1/2" pipe so I would clean it out.

At the bottom I have some of the red oak wood chips. I took a log and split it up into small sticks and droped in in the chipper. One 6" log makes over 5 gallons of wood chips by the way.

I connected a small aquarium pump to the small tube, filled up the can with chips and lit the chips though the bottom larger holes with a butane torch. Smokes for about an hour. You can keep filling up the can with chips if you want longer burns. If you don't want to make your own you can also buy them ready made from Smoke Daddy just do a google search.

Thanks for all the info and pics! I cant wait to try my own. The smoke daddy ones are nice but a little pricey, for now since I've only wanted to cold smoke one thing. Maybe if I can make my own like yours and try it out. One question is how did you keep the lid and body together and was it suspended?

[yo_quiero_fumar]

Here is a link to a thread that shows the smoker I made that attaches to the AKORN. You can make more or less smoke and cooler or hotter by changing the amount of wood, burning charcoal and unlit charcoal. I've had it run for over 10 hours without adding fuel or wood.

http://kamadoguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=1493

Yea that thing looks cool but I havent found any bowls like thosex was thinking of modifying my smokey Joe using flexible metal duct from the top vent on the smoley joe into the intake vent on my GCK?

[philpom]

Tractor supply carries them on the dog food/care isle and Lowes also carries them on the dog care isle.

They are dog food bowls, If you don't have those places you might try other stores that sell dog food and supplies.

I don't have a WSM so I can't be certain but it makes sense that you could use something else in the same way as long as you can darn near choke the fire in it.

[IrvinF]

A stock pot may come in handy for making a smoker in stead of two stacked dog food bowls. You may want to stop by a thrift store to see if you can pick up a used one.

EDIT: Or an empty 1 gallon can. There should be a lot of restaurants that just throw them away.

[philpom]

A stock pot may come in handy for making a smoker in stead of two stacked dog food bowls. You may want to stop by a thrift store to see if you can pick up a used one.

EDIT: Or an empty 1 gallon can. There should be a lot of restaurants that just throw them away.

I think you are right, a stock pot might be a good choice. I wouldn't use a steel #10 can because it will rust out pretty fast. That's one main reason I picked the stainless steel bowls. Rust proof and won't create any bad vapors when it is heated!