Smoke generator with their own hands - step by step instructions for schematic drawings with photo examples
For many people, meat and fish are a traditional dish on their tables. Prepare it in a variety of ways, yet the most popular is a variant of heat treatment known as smoking, and the device for this case is called a smoke generator for smoking.
The process makes it possible to prepare a long-lasting dish from a product that has not been stored for a long time, thus obtaining a wonderful flavor and unique taste, which cannot be obtained by other methods of processing.
Although more and more different devices can be found in the sale of household appliances, smoking with your own hands remains a sought-after endeavor.
Designation and operation of the smoke generator
The procedure of cold smoking is carried out over several days. Processed with this method, products have the most excellent odor and taste.
During the cooking process, pathogenic bacteria are killed. The shelf life of food prepared in cold-smoking devices reaches up to one year, which gives a great advantage to the construction device.
Inherent peculiarity of this procedure requires the use of special units. The main place in this situation has a generator that produces smoke.
There are some requirements for the mentioned device. His device must contribute to the creation of a lot of smoke, and also to control its saturation.
Apparatus of autonomous type, in many ways makes the process of creating smoked meats easier. To make a working device, it is advised to master his structure and learn how it works.
Any smoke generator has a similar algorithm of operation. All of them are used to create smoke and help to transfer it in the right direction. The raw material used to produce smoke comes in the form of firewood or wood chips.
What principle of operation of the generator of smoke under the cold smoking, consider in detail:
- When the fuel burns, smoke comes out, it moves closer to the inlet of this unit. Then it goes to the second section of the unit under the action of the compressor, eventually it ends up in the smoking tank.
- Compressor performs the most important role, because it transmits air with high pressure to the chimney formation. Experts have noticed that such devices have a high efficiency.
- To assemble the chamber of the smoke generator, where the smoke will concentrate, it is possible to take any container suitable for such purposes. Often an aluminum milk can, fire extinguisher barrel or a thermos is used for this purpose. The best thing is to use a tube of metal. It will be able to make a smoke generator for smoking of cold and hot type.
- It is worth noting that the elongation of the container should be no more than 1 meter. In creating a device with a longer length - will reduce its productivity. Smoke conducted through a very long pipe will reduce its movement and temperature.
The principle of operation of the device is simple - it is based on pyrolysis decomposition of wood with a negligible supply of H2O.
In simple terms, in the smoke generator, the wood chips are heated and smolder slowly in the absence of air.
When the intensity of the smoke generator is selected incorrectly, the result will be unpalatable smoked meats.
Schematic drawings and working tools
The assembly procedure can be made easier if you consider in detail the drawings of the smoke generator. The schematic should show the body of the apparatus in the form of a circle or square.
The duration of use of the device is determined by the choice of raw materials for the body, for this you can take stainless or galvanized steel. For the walls of the device is arranged a good seal.
If you do the opposite, the smoke will escape into the ambient air. In the scheme is important to include an ejector with dimensions, to all need a compressor. To arrange their own unit for the production of smoke, you will need the following materials and tools:
- steel pipe, d - 10 cm;
- Plastic conduit - a length not exceeding 3 meters, or you can take the metal hose;
- compact compressor, suitable for the aquarium;
- a piece of metal pipe, 40 cm apart, d - 2,5-4 cm;
- joint for the fitting, having a diameter similar to that of the flue duct;
- starter and electric wires;
- thermometer.
Prepare tools for the work: a welding machine, a bolt cutter. It is good to have the skills to work with these tools so that during the procedures of assembling the smoke generator did not come out hurt and to do everything properly and carefully.
How to create a smoke generator with your own hands?
The main functional organ of the smoker is the smoke generator, it can be organized from whatever is at hand. Reservoir for provisions is possible to create, giving another life to a broken refrigerator, cylinders and barrels, stove for gas.
The design of a small smokehouse of the dismountable and mobile type is the most comfortable to use. It can be disassembled and stored and transported for fishing, hunting and feasting.
The prefabricated/disassembled construction gives the possibility to improve the unit, change parts and reservoirs. There are also oversized, stationary units. The design of the smoker includes a damper, which allows for increased air flow into the chamber with fuel.
From an old refrigerator
First you need to prepare the refrigerator. From the old apparatus removed all non-metallic elements, including insulation on the door. After all, when heated, these elements will release harmful substances that can make food unfit.
To ensure airtightness, you need to leave a rubber seal, which will perform its role. After removing unnecessary elements will be left holes, which should be taped with adhesive tape or scotch tape.
If possible, it is advisable to install a fan on top of the refrigerator to disperse the smoke, and on the sides it is necessary to make holes for the future location of the grates for products.
There are two types of refrigerator smokestacks: outdoor or portable, stationary types:
- The outdoor model will need not only a refrigerator, but also a smoke generator. For a smoke generator, you need a pan with a thick bottom and a lid. To build a smoke generator, holes are made in the bottom of the pan, and a 1-meter long hose is cut into the lid. Its second edge connects to the refrigerator chamber at the location of the compressor. On the bottom of the refrigerator electric 1200 watt heaters are installed, which will hold a temperature of 80 degrees, while the dish is cooked. Instead of the heat is suitable installation of an electric burner. In the home-made smoke generator you need to put the raw material for cooking: fruit sawdust. The meat is hung on hooks or placed on the shelves of the refrigerator. It will be possible to eat the delicacies after a few hours.
- For the home model of the smokehouse you will need a refrigerator, which is freed from all unnecessary things and installed on the balcony, loggia, kitchen room near the hood. In addition to the refrigerator, an electric stove is taken and installed on open burners - a pan, a metal sheet. Closed burner type will be even better. Before installation, make sure that the stove put in will not prevent the doors from closing. A frying pan or tray with spread fruit chips is placed on the stove. Flavorful fruit sawdust is placed on the heated pan or coals, the firebox is closed with a lid. Now the smoking takes place. The delicacies can be hung on hooks or can be placed on shelves.
From a metal barrel
Decomposable construction makes it possible to introduce improvements, change elements and containers:
- To form such an apparatus, you can use an outdated cylinder from under the gas, a pair of metal barrels, bars and plates of steel, five pieces of pipe on 50 cm, d - 10 cm drill with a drill, a grinder and a device for welding.
- The cylinder from under gas will serve as a furnace, from barrels are cut out and made containers for smoking, where grids from metal and bars for provisions are mounted.
- From the pipes is arranged chimney, in it sticks handmade smoke generator. In this case, the temperature of the smoke is set by the length of the removable fitting.
- The body of the device for creating smoke will serve as a tall pot or a can, in their lid must be made a hole for the socket that connects to the chimney.
- On the bottom of the smokestack reservoir are lowered wood chips.
- On the outside at a distance of 3 cm from the bottom you need to make a hole for ignition.
- Then in the body creates a connection for the compressor, taken from the aquarium, and opposite the furnace - a hole for the chimney, which connects to the chamber with the provision.
A variant from a pipe
- At first it is worthwhile to make a chamber. The average height of the generator is 70-80 cm.
- In the upper part should be a removable cover. This is required in order to easily pour into the middle of the device fuel raw materials.
- In the lower compartment is created a small device for the ash products to fall there.
- In unpretentious formers chips are poured on the bottom of the device, which is firmly welded to the end of the pipe. In this case - the unit for cleaning turn upside down. In such a simplified model, the ash drawer is not arranged.
- Another variety. Chips are poured on the grate fixed at a certain distance from the bottom of the device. After the fuel burns, the ash is poured through the grate. The bottom in these models is removable.
- Regardless of the selected type, in the bottom plot of the generating device is arranged hole d - 5, 6 mm. Through it a small amount of air will enter the device, necessary for smoldering sawdust.
- In the plot at the top, 7-9 cm below the top, another hole is made. From it to the smoke generator will be fixed and the output tube of the smoke.
- The creation of the ejector is carried out. Fixture needed to suck smoke from the generator and transfer it to the smoke outlet. It is a tube of small cross-section, it will enter the pressure from the compressor, comes in two centimeters in the pipe flue, which has a superior diameter. Due to the fact that the air mass will be little by little moving, there is a mini vacuum and the smoke from the chamber will begin to exit into the chimney.
At this stage the main components are combined and reinforced, it remains to unite the nodes of the smoke generator and determine the effectiveness of its functions.
Cold smoker smoke generator
Viewing the videos on the topic under discussion, will give any owner who has not acquired special knowledge, the basis to make this device. To assemble the fixture for cold smoking with your own hands, you will need:
- A piece of metal pipe. No matter what shape the tube - a circle or a square, its d - 10-14 cm. The tube will be the medium where the smoldering of wood chips and the creation of smoke;
- a tube with a smaller cross-section to form an ejector;
- a spring, located in the middle of the chamber. It serves to easily raise the smoke from the sawdust from the bottom to the top;
- a blower for getting air into the ejector
- A thermometer - it can be used to monitor the temperature in the middle of the generator to prevent the container where the smoke is generated from cooling or overheating.
Features
Cold smoking takes 2-3 days, which makes it difficult, because you need to periodically keep an eye on maintaining the right temperature, not allowing it to rise or fall too much.
Smoke generator for a cold form of smoking - generates the required smoke content required for the success of the procedure, and also feeds the smoke into the tank for smoking.
Its main advantage is the ability to operate in a machine mode and does not require round-the-clock supervision.
For proper smoking do not need wood chips from conifers, but are suitable from deciduous, fruit wood.
Assembly
The main components of the smoke generator are: a piece of pipe, which serves as a chamber; smoke pipe; dampers with a compressor. It is important to assemble in this sequence:
- the chamber is arranged. The height of the device is 70-80 cm. On top of his made removable cover to fill in the middle of the chips and for cleaning;
- at the bottom there is a device for the accumulation of ash. In simple models the ash drawer is not made, and the lid at the bottom is welded on tightly. For emptying the ash the appliance is tipped. In carefully made devices sawdust is poured on the grate, attached in the gap from the bottom. The bottom is created by taking out the type of a cup. It is provided that the cup is put on the bottom and fastened with bolts;
- a 5-6 mm hole is drilled in the bottom section of the smoke generator for the air to pass through;
- In the upper part of the chamber drilled a hole at a distance of 7-8 cm from the top. On it then get to slide a tube of plastic, bringing to the smoker;
- The ejector is assembled. This device, sucks the smoke from the smoke generator and passes it to the chimney.
Smoke generator gives an opportunity to influence the smoking procedure in a simple way. To create this device by your own will need to make a drawing, where you need to determine the dimensions of individual parts.
Video and instructions will help to create this product. As you can see, the device is quite possible to make your own hands, it takes patience, striving for the goal and taking some time. In this case, everything will come out perfectly!
Photos of homemade smoke generators