Enjoy smoked dishes without leaving your apartment: a home smokehouse made from household items

Homemade smoked meats are much tastier and healthier than store-bought ones. With the help of a home smokehouse, you can prepare a huge variety of dishes, smoke fish, vegetables, meat and lard.

But it is not always possible to do this at the dacha or simply in nature. Many do not have a garden plot, and in winter, a smokehouse at the dacha is uselessBut at home is where she belongs.

Which hot and cold smoking smokehouse with a water seal to choose for home use

Small smokehouses are suitable for home use. The retail chain offers a variety models of these devicesThey are made of stainless steel and equipped with everything necessary for preparing various dishes.

With your own hands, you can make a smokehouse that may be less beautiful, but no less functional and productive.

For smoking at home it is extremely important, to prevent smoke and soot from spoiling the exterior finish of the kitchen and did not disturb the neighbors.

The absence of smoke and odors will be ensured by a device with a water seal. This is a smokehouse, along the perimeter of which (or on three sides) at the level of the lid is laid metal gutter.

Before cooking, water is poured into it. It acts as a kind of lock, preventing smells and smoke from penetrating from under the lid.

The smokehouse can be made not only from stainless steel. Any capacious metal container will do: saucepan, bucket, tankAt home, you can do both hot and cold smoking. Hot smoking is faster, while cold smoking lasts for several days and is a bit more troublesome.

The thing is that the supply of cold smoke for smoking should be carried out continuously for several days. This means that you will have to monitor the process of smoldering and burning at night. If possible, you need to think about choosing a smoke generator. Without it, you will not be able to carry out cold smoking at home.

How to make a household smokehouse from an iron for a city apartment

Simple, but quite conscientious in fulfilling its task a smokehouse can be made from several items, which almost everyone has in their city apartments. In any case, the missing element of the design can always be borrowed from relatives, friends and neighbors.

Photo 1. A frying pan and an iron soleplate as a heating element – ​​elements for a home smokehouse.

What you will need to make a smokehouse:

1. A roasting pan or frying pan with or without a handle.
2. A large saucepan of this diameterso that it can be placed in the frying pan.
3. The heating element (sole) of any iron with wires and a cord with a plug connected to it. The depth of the frying pan should be such that the iron fits freely in it, and its relief does not rise above the level of the sides of the container.
4. To regulate the heating power of the iron, you can connect it through a special device - thermostat.

The process of making a small kitchen appliance

1. A “tooth” is cut out anywhere in the edge of the frying pan or roasting pan: a triangular shaped piece of metal. This recess is needed to pass an electrical cord through it.
2. Prepare a saucepan: drill many holes with a diameter of 4–5 mm in its bottom. To make your work more convenient, you can use some simple drawing or symbol as a basis: the sun, a snowflake, a star.
3. Notches are cut out in the upper part of the pan (in its walls at the top), on which the rods with the products for smoking suspended from them will be placed. The recesses are needed so that the rods do not interfere with the tight closing of the lid.
4. Prepare the heating element of the iron: disconnect the wires from it, put heat shrink tubes and ceramic bushings on them, and reconnect. This way the wires are protected from overheating.
5. If the frying pan is slightly wider or narrower than the saucepan, this The difference in diameters can be corrected. To perform this task, you will only need pliers. With their help, bend or bend the sides of the frying pan.
6. The pan should stand so that its bottom was in close proximity to, but did not touch, the heating element of the iron. To do this, to the bottom of the pan in 3-4 places attach the legs to the desired height. The easiest way is to screw bolts of the required length into the bottom and secure them with nuts. The heads of the bolts should rest against the surface of the frying pan.

Assembling the smokehouse is extremely simple: Place the sole of the iron in the middle of the frying pan and pull the cord out through the notch in the side. Place a saucepan in the frying pan. Lower the fat tray into it (you can use foil baking pans). Place metal rods in the upper slots. Hang up the products. Close the lid.

What's so good about this smokehouse? Because it has there are no problems with the shavings smoldering. The sole of the iron heats up quickly and strongly, and the wood on it begins to smolder almost instantly.

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Cold smoking of meat, fish, lard with smoke at home

To prepare cold smoked products in a city apartment, you will need a smoke generator. It is recommended to use a factory-made device, not a homemade one. There are no difficulties in purchasing it, as it is offered everywhere in specialized stores for fishermen and hunters, in the departments of goods for tourism.

After purchasing the smoke generator, the only difficulty will be connecting it to the container selected as the smoking chamber. The place where the device is connected to the pan or tank should be hermetically sealed.

The smokehouse container should be closed with a lid into which a short tube is soldered. To remove smoke, use any suitable hose (from a rubber heating pad, any equipment) or a tube made of non-flammable material.

If you don't have a metal container, a large cardboard box will do. It's much easier to equip, and the quality of smoking won't suffer. It's a good idea to look for a box the size of 40x60x40 cm. Most standard-sized oven trays fit into it. The tray is placed on the bottom of the box and is designed to collect drips of fat during smoking.

Assembling a structure from a box for a house

1. 

   We need to take care of it about the stability of this flimsy smoke chamber, since during the smoking session the cardboard will absorb moisture and may become deformed.

Therefore, the box is supported on both sides with whatever is convenient: blocks, stacks of books, other boxes.

2. A hole is cut in the top wall of the smoke chamber, into which a plastic pipe with a diameter of 50 mm or a tube rolled from cardboard. This way you get a fully functional smoke exhaust.
3. They take metal rods and pierce the box through and through. Products are hung from these rods.
4. A smoke generator is placed next to the box., find a place where it is most convenient to connect it to the smoking chamber. Cut a circle in the wall of the box, the cross-section of which should correspond to the cross-section of the smoke generator tube.
5. Seal the box with tape.
6. They pour in the wood chips and turn on the device.

Round, cylindrical barbecue for the kitchen

You can convert a mantovarka or a pressure cooker into a smokehouse. It will be easier with a mantovarka, since it already has removable disks (3-4 pcs.) with holes. At the bottom of such a pan you need to put a round metal grate, which is sold for kitchen microwaves or used as a stand for hot things. On this grate you put a plate of suitable size to collect the fat.

Photo 2. A pressure cooker with a rack and plate installed is a great round smoking device for the kitchen.

Next, install disks with holes, on each of which pieces of products prepared for smoking are placed. Shavings are poured onto the bottom of the smokehouse.

In a steamer there are always gaps between the lid, base and bottom, as it is a fully assembled structure. Smoke will escape through these gaps. To prevent this from happening, do the following: After loading the products for smoking, the lower gaps are coated with unleavened dough.

Place the mantovarka on the fire and wait for the shavings to start smoldering. As soon as the smoke starts, close the pan with a lid and coat the upper crack with dough. All that remains is to wait for the smoking to finish.

Useful video

From the video you can learn how to make your own homemade smokehouse using an ordinary old saucepan.