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

[[Image:Bradley Countertop Smoker.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Bradley Countertop Smoker in action]]

[[Image:Polyscience Smoking Gun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Polyscience Smoking Gun]]

Most of the hard work covering this subject has already been done by '''[[Bradley Smokers]].  They have lots of information on smoking food (and also about [[Home cured bacon|curing]] it) - there's even a forum too.

==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.