Home smoker

[FerlasDave]

Ive been wanting to try a homemade smoking tin for a while now and today I finally got round to it. It worked really well and the fish tasted terrific, so without further adue heres how I did it.

Start off with a chocolate tin of some sort, I chose quality street

Then add some sawdust shavings or some flavoured shavings. I used some lime I had left over from whittling.

Next, get yourself a rack of some sort, I found some old BBQ grill in the garage and bent it into shape.

Put the rack in....

Now, you need something to put in it dont you? How about some nice fillets of rainbow trout?

Seasoned with plenty of salt and pepper, it goes ontop of your rack inside the tin.

Now stab some holes in the lid of the tin using your knife, 4 holes in the middle are enough.

Now put your smoker on the hob, on the fire, or even under your trangia burner.

30 mins later......

Looks good enough to eat!

P.S, sorry about the picture quality guys, my camera isnt the best.

 

[MartinK9]

How'd it taste Davey?

And did you smoke out your kitchen?

 

[gazmc2]

looks great, how high temp wise did you put the hob??

 

[hiho]

thats why theres no pic of it cooking

looks good. and nice and simple . theres no way swmbo would let me near the cooker with owt like that

 

[FerlasDave]

gazmc2, I set it on full to begin with then turned it down about halfway, sorry I dont know what the temperatures are.

hiho, Im sure she would when she smelled it cooking, especially if you use a fragranced wood, its much better than any air freshener. Or you could try it on a burner outside.

 

[stooboy]

good tutorial, ive tried this before based on the back of a fag packet diagram stjon gave me at an ayrshire meet, was outside but worked great on brown trout.

What over food have you tried to smoke or is fish the only thing worth doing?

 

[gsfgaz]

was ur kitchen covered in smoke mate...

 

[FerlasDave]

good tutorial, ive tried this before based on the back of a fag packet diagram stjon gave me at an ayrshire meet, was outside but worked great on brown trout.

What over food have you tried to smoke or is fish the only thing worth doing?

Fish, bacon, thinly sliced steak is all good.

 

[FerlasDave]

was ur kitchen covered in smoke mate...

No I left a window open. lol. Should have put that in.

 

[Pcwizme]

Ahh Hot Smoked trout one of my faves i personally really like it with apple wood (which is good seeing as we have 2.5 apple trees)

 

[tommy the cat]

Changing tack slightly has anyone had any success with smoking cheese?
Now I know it would have to be cold smoked just wondering how to keep the cheese from drying out?!?!
Dave

 

[johnnytheboy]

The old timers used to do this but they would put the big tin on a couple of bricks and a golden virgina tin under the big tin full of meths. When the meths had burnt out the fish was smoked. Never tried it myself but heard the old timers going on about this method a few times.

 

[Pcwizme]

Smoked cheese is best done in a cold smoker as far as i know, otherwise you get a gooey mess! As for it drying out i havent had that issue but i have only smoked chedder and very nice on crackers it was too!