Garden Grill and Smokehouse - for the Healthy Food and as Decoration
6 Materials
$220
4 Days
Medium
This time some heavier DIY project - Smokehouse . It allows to create healthy and delicious great meat, fishes and cheeses.
You could create smoked which are durable, without preservatives and with wonderful taste.
In my tutorial I've created smokehouse with two hearth: one for cold smoke (less than 24 celcius degrees) and the other one for hot smoke (up to 80 celcius degrees).
Presented smokehouse could be also used as a garden gril and as an additional feature I've added another hearth for bread/pizza oven.
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First You need to buy the needed elements. It's not an expensive project.
It is also not very hard to buiild the grill/smokehouse.
Look at the attached to this diy tutorial video (this is stop motion timelapse) and see how I've build the whole construction in 4 days.
The foundations
First You have to make reinforced foundations. The whole construction will be quite heavy, so the foundations should be at least 30-35 cm deep.
Reinforcement could be made from normal 10-12mm diameter steel.
It is important that foundations should be good leveled and covered with water resistant insulation. In my case I've used something which is transparent, but it could be standard, black liniment based on tar like bitex.
Walls & Additionall bread oven
Walls of the smokehouse should be made from materials which don't accumulate the heat. In other case, further smoked will become to dry and to burnt. It will be also impossible to achieve the low temperature of the smoke.
I've used the cheapest red bricks, but it could be any other materials which could stand the heat like brick from demolition or ceramic brick etc.
Pizza/bread oven's hearth have to be made from different material. This time, material have to accumulate the heat. It could be clay, clay brick or (as in my case) special fireclay brick. Keep in mind that such bricks requires also special mortar which is fire resistant.
Intels & the tops
The easiest way to make the lintels is to make them from concrete.
First You have to make the boarding, then reinforcement from steel and cover all of this with concrete.
Smokehouse chamber and the chimneys
I've created additional cornice between hearths and smoking chambers. As You can see cornice is made from bricks in smokehouse part, and from concrete in pizza oven''s part.
This is because in pizza oven's part cornice is also the last layer-the top. So I've made boarding which includes cornice, reinforcement and cover all of it with concrete.
Chimneys could be made from special metal tubes which is the best way to do. Those tubes are quite expensive, so I've created the chimneys from normal bricks. It is also good way, but such chimneys have to be plastered from the outside and from the inside as well to avoid 'leaking' of the smoke.
Meat hangers
Hangers for meat have to be removable. I've created them from wooden sticks. It's important to use leafy tree for such sticks.
On those sticks I hang some metal hangers which I've made from special caps for jars, but it is because I've had a lot of them to waste. In normal case it is better to use Stainless Steel wire.
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I hope You like it. It gives me a lot of fun to built and then it allows me to make delicious hams and cheeses :)
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