Another Reason to Own a Mak 2

[RickB]

At work today I was day dreaming about smoking some cheese this fall. But I was trying to come up with a way to drop the temps. Got home today and after a couple of toddies came up with this. Quite proud of it I must say! Here we go.

Line all four sides of the warmer drawer with heavy foil. Cut a square out for the vents near the main cooking area

Double the foil around the top of the warming area for a good seal.

With a sharp knife cut through the vents on the right hand side of the warming area in the middle two vents.

Fire up your tube smoker and put in the warming area.

Since the vent area in the main cooking chamber is so much larger than the two small slits on the right air flow is reversed. Check out the smoke coming from the main cooking area

I'm thinking most of the heat will be disapated by the the top of the warming drawer.
Think of all the cheese you can smoke now!

Try it you are gonna be amazed. Donations are appreciated!

Rick


Update

After a hour of smoking the main cooking area was 17 degrees higher than ambient. I am sure with cooler temps that will be lower.

Another Update

Found the smoke was dissapating..cut slits in all the foil on right hand side. Thats the ticket!

I'll get this perfected soon!

Well ya know I would not waste all that smoke so I made a little snack

Smoked Popcorn

Whoduh Thunk!

 

[sparky]

Toodies and what else? Just kidding good idea you had.

 

[squirtthecat]

Brilliant!

 

[muebe]

Good thinking Rick!

I have a Bradley smoker that I use for cold smoking but you found a simple solution

 

[roburado]

That's great! I like it!

 

[chaz345]

Anyone who wants to cold smoke should look into doing something like this:

You can probably even do it in a small fridge since the smoke is so cold it's won't melt the plastic.

 

[Chili Head]

That sucker put out a lot of smoke!
OOhh smoke ring! I think I'll make another! LOL

 

[chaz345]

That sucker put out a lot of smoke!
OOhh smoke ring! I think I'll make another! LOL

Lots of smoke and zero heat. There's a couple of sparks in the sawdust, but with all that cool air moving over them, the output isn't at all above ambient. I'm going to build one for cheese smoking this winter and maybe even cold smoking my own bacon.