If you like smoking, and there is no extra money for a good professional smokehouse, but there is an old washing machine, you can combine business with pleasure.
The washing machine will make an excellent smokehouse. And you can do it yourself.
Do-it-yourself smokehouse
If you decide that your smokehouse will be made from an old washing machine, you need to prepare the tool, read the instructions and proceed.
Want to do it yourself? Go for it!
Tool
Which tools will be included in the kit depends on the design of the future smokehouse and on which washing machine you take as a basis. In general, you will need:
- electric welding machine;
- a hammer;
- plus and minus screwdrivers;
- angle grinder (grinder);
- drill or electric drill;
- roulette.
The first thing you need from consumables is an old washing machine: Soviet or modern, but vertical. Old horizontal type SMAs are also suitable.
What can be made a smokehouse
- If your choice fell on the Soviet machine “Oka”, then you can make a smokehouse from two elements: from the tank and the lid.
- If the usual horizontal SMA is taken as the basis, then only the drum is used.
- If you are going to make an electric smokehouse, then you need to buy a heater with a capacity of 1000 watts.
And another important point is the grill, on which you will smoke products.
Important! For the electric version, the power of the heater is important. If it is below 1 kW, then the sawdust will simply smolder, which means that fish or meat will not be smoked.
Alteration of the vertical washing machine
If you want to save on electricity and not be fooled by the purchase of a heating element, make a choice in favor of the wood option. It is made from the tank of a vertical loading machine “Oka”. The tank is ideally suited for these purposes, as it is made of high-quality stainless steel. She will not burn for a couple of months, and will last a long time.
Proceed as follows:
- Turn the machine upside down.
- Remove the engine and other parts that interfere with operation.
- Remove from the pallet all parts made of rubber and plastic that may become hot and smoke from fire. This will prevent food spoilage.
- Arm yourself with an electric welding machine and brew all the holes that you find at the bottom.
Important! To close the hole from the activator, make a patch, having previously cut it from a sheet of stainless steel. Weld.
- Cut a hole in the wall of the cabinet — it can be square, rectangular, or semicircular — as desired. Thus you will make a firebox in which you will lay firewood.
- Then look into the tank: there, at a distance of about half a meter from the bottom, fastenings should be provided on which the grill will be held. Make your future smokehouse functional and with the help of welding add fasteners 15-20 centimeters above the first level - so you can adjust the degree of smoking or load twice as many products.
How does smoking happen:
- Make a fire on the ground, pour dry sawdust on the bottom of the former car.
Important! Avoid tarry tree species - prefer fruit varieties.
- Lay the grill.
- Put food on wire racks.
- Cover the tank with a clean cotton cloth.
- Put the factory cover on top.
- As a final chord, you will need to put a finished smokehouse on a burning fire.
This design has a couple of minuses:
- Fire should be maintained - it can go out quickly.
- It is necessary to ensure that the campfire does not flare up too much; the heat should be in moderation - neither less nor more.
Important! Using a smokehouse and working with open fire, observe safety precautions.
Not everyone will be comfortable with the device, from which you can not move a couple of steps. Therefore, it is possible to improve the design. For this:
- Take a large heater - a round spiral with a power of 1000 watts.
- It should be attached at the bottom of the tank.
Important! In the case of the electric version, the furnace is not needed - do not cut the hole.
- Connect the power cord and unplug it.
For such a smokehouse to work, you need to fill up the bottom with sawdust, install a wire rack and lay out the products for smoking. Cover the machine with a cloth and a cover, turn it on.
When the spiral is heated to the maximum, the process of smoldering sawdust will begin - and the products will begin to smoke. Home craftsmen also advise wrapping the machine in a non-combustible piece of thermal insulation to minimize heat loss, and the heater will be heated faster.
Remodeling a horizontal washing machine
When thinking about what a smokehouse can be made of, pay attention to machines with horizontal loading. True, the smokehouse is mounted not from the housing, but from the drum.
To make a smokehouse compact, but at the same time fully fulfilling its functions, proceed as follows:
- Remove excess parts from the drum.
- Look for a pan that would not be a pity, the diameter of which coincides with the diameter of the drum.
- Grinder cut the bottom of the pan, set it aside.
Attention! You can trim the drum in front to expand it.
- Place the drum so that the hatch is on top. You need to brew its bottom and seal the holes.
Important! To close the openings on the sides, wrap the smokehouse in a non-combustible thermal insulation.
- Put the drum upside down on the pan and cook them together.
- Inside the bottom, install the heater.
- Now it remains only to provide fastenings on which the grilles will be.
- Do not forget to provide a cover for a mini-smoker.
The unit works the same as the previous one:
- Pour fruit tree sawdust onto the bottom of the drum.
- Install the grilles (round).
- Stack foods.
- Cover the drum with a cloth and a lid.
- Connect to the network.
- Wait until the sawdust smokes - from this moment the smoking process can be considered started.
Attention! If you need a large smoking machine, you can make it out of two tanks, having previously welded them together.
Now you know how to make a smokehouse not only from the Soviet round washing machine, but also from a modern one. And the video will help you not to make a mistake when constructing:
Successful homemade!