Smoked fish, just delicious! But not everyone buys it, someone prefers to smoke on their own. If you want it too, then it will be interesting for you to learn how to make a simple home smokehouse with your own hands.
How to make a smokehouse from the refrigerator with your own hands?
If you are thinking how to make a homemade smokehouse, try making it from an old refrigerator. There is not much work, but the result is good.
It will take an old small refrigerator (such as Saratov), from which insulating materials and a refrigeration unit are necessary. At the top of the refrigerator, make a hole for the exit of smoke. This can be done by the contour of the intended circle of holes, and then, bringing "up to mind" with a semicircular file. Inside, you need to attach three pairs of corners, which consistently install 2 nets for products and a pallet, which will drain the fat.
Also you will need an electric hotplate and a pallet with sawdust. Below we have an electric hot plate, and above it we place a pallet with wood sawdust. For a pallet, you can use a baking tray (if suitable for size), but in general it is recommended to make a piece of steel with a thickness of 0.5 mm. The pallet should be located on the tile, and you need to take care that the inflow of air to it is minimal. The smaller the air, the less likely that the sawdust will light up.
To close the door of the former refrigerator, you can attach a conventional hook to it. Before use, the smokehouse needs to be thoroughly heated to remove odors.
How to make a smokehouse with your own hands from a barrel?
It will take a metal barrel without a bottom. Inside it we have a tray for collecting fat. Cross the barrels we put metal rods, on which we will hang the fish. You can use a stove for a smoke, or you can build a fireplace with a brick. To do this, dig a hole under the hearth (about 40 cm), at the same depth, dig a trench under the chimney (length of 1.5-2 m) and a depression on which there will be a barrel. We put out the fireplace with a brick, we also put the barrel on the bricks. We tie the top of the barrel with burlap. Thus, it is possible to obtain products of cold smoking.
If you want to eat a hot smoked fish, then a trench and an additional pit for a barrel is not needed. The barrel is located directly above the hearth. And that the smoke was where to go, we close the barrel with a lid with holes.
How to make a smokehouse with your own hands at home?
Houses smokehouse can be made as thoroughly, from the brick, and mini smokehouse - lightweight construction. With brick, there is not enough time to tinker with, and not all have a place again. A simple version of the portable mini-smokehouse can be made from a bucket. Such a smokehouse and a hike can be captured.
Take a bucket with a lid, fill the bottom with sawdust, centimeters 10. We attach the meat or fish wrapped in gauze to the cover of the bucket. We put the lid on the bucket and put it on the fire.
If the camp version of the smokehouse is small and certainly wants to smoke fish at home, then you can use the following way of manufacturing this unit. We take a rectangular metal box. We pour on its bottom the sawdust with a thick layer. On the sawdust we put a tray on the legs, so that the fat was to drain off. Outside, around the box, we fix the trough from the tin, in which we will pour water before the start of the smoking. For the box you need a cover, which should cover not only the box, but also the chute. And in the middle of the lid we make a hole, on which we mount a hose for removing smoke into the window. Such a smokehouse should be kept at the lowest heat, which is possible.