The Smokestack is my cold smoking system that I have been working on for the past few years, well I only mess with it during the cold weather. I have tried putting a piece of coal in it, under it ice under the cheese and so on, but have found it's all unnecessary. Give this a try the next time you smoke cheese. Sorry I didn't take any pictures of it in use, but will on the next batch.
My Smokestack is made from an exhaust tip for a car, but I think just about any piece of pipe would work. I didn't drill any holes, but it wouldn't hurt to try putting one or two in it for lighting. What I did do is put a screen in it made from some doubled up expanded metal to hold the wood slivers.
The cheese, sharp cheddar and hickory.
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The Smokestack
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I light with a Bernzomatic, I torch the side of the metal until I see some smoke. The heat from the metal seems to keep it going for the first few moments and then it just keeps going.
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The Smokewood. This stuff works perfectly because it's all slivers, but I bet the pellets would also work. It comes in a few different flavors too.
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Give it a shot, maybe you can help get it dialed in even better.
This looks awesome Duke! Great work!
Thanks Chasing Smoke, the cheese actually took on some color, but I smoked it twice.
Nice work! I need to give this a try
duke, this looks really promising.
would you be willing to write up something more of a how-to on this?
get some good pics of building it and put it together for the blog?
Sure, I think I could do that. Just PM me and let me know where to begin.