Smoking food: Difference between revisions

[[Image:Smoker5.jpg|250px|thumb|left|Bacon after smoking]][[Image:Bisquettes.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Bisquettes available in many `flavours']]

[[Image:Smoker1.jpg|250px|thumb|right|`Hidden' smoker]]

==The equipment==

I felt I could not justify the high cost of a [http://www.bradleysmoker.co.uk/products/smoker/index.htm ready-built] smoker; however, the [http://www.bradleysmoker.co.uk/products/smoker/smoke_generator.htm do-it-yourself] option appealed  to the cheapskate in me. It's really simple - you make a hole in the side of a large box (for that, read old [[fridge]]), then from the outside of the fridge, poke the smoker unit into the hole and from the inside of the fridge fix the flange, cut a hole for a chimney, plug in the smoker (not the fridge!!) and off you go.  Bradley provide a [http://www.bradleysmoker.co.uk/download/ blueprint in a pdf document], though making a smoker from an old fridge is not in fact as complex as it first appears from this information sheet.

[[Image:Smoker3.jpg|250px|thumb|right|You can almost smell the smoke]] If I were to do it again from scratch, I would make the hole for the chimney at the very ''top of one of the sides'', rather than in the top (roof) of the fridge, because with the latter option, moisture can condense (or even the rain can get in) and drip down onto the food being smoked - definitely not desirable in terms of quality, flavour, look and microbial safety of the final product.

==See also==

* [[Home cured bacon]]

* [[Home-smoked bacon, step-by-step - 2009]]