Building an On-Farm Smokehouse UNCUT
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
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Learn the basic principles of smoking and how smokehouse design works for producing the desired effects when preparing meats, vegetables, cheeses, etc. Then we visit the smokehouse we just built at the North Mills River Living Web Farm utilizing a simple design you can implement and/or adapt to your own farm or homestead.
This might work on Florida but out here in Montana you have to build a smokehouse like a log home to keep the bears out. Also you want the draft to come out low in the smokehouse not up high like you have it. Smoke falls as it cools that way you can hang more meat lower and still get a good smoke. You want the low vent hole to be at the opposite end where smoke comes in and yet much lower than the firebox because the low vent hole acts as your draft. Seal everything and only allow smoke to exit the low draft hole. I'm more in making jerky smoked because it stores way longer being void of moisture. The smoke cures it along with being treated with salt.
Thanks for the advice
My grandfather’s smokehouse was a tarpaper shack - literally. The fire was on the ground and the meat was hanging in the other end... maybe 12’ away. I was pretty young so recollections are maybe 60 years old. I can still remember the beautiful aromas!!! And cleaning Sturgeon in preparation to smoke.
Back in the day-w/o refrigerator, they butchered late fall, smoked after that.
What's the purpose of putting the fire pit under ground? Is that to control heat better? That box is 50 feet away and what kind of heat will that box get. Or is it for cold smoke only, if you don't burry it under ground. What fire box do you recommend and stove to attach on outside maybe 10 feet away 25 gallon drum? If you used and electric hot plate instead of that fire box, what would you recommend.
Happen to notice near the end that you made comments about your door.... wanted to mention that since you used raw sawmill lumber please keep in mind that if you don't take into account that the wood will swell and shrink with the weather that your door may get stuck and hard to open. Some wood expands and contracts more than other types. Most of the time it changes more across the plank than in its length. Same with the lock you are using, as the wood moves around the lock may not fit the same. I found using old style wooden lock mechanisms work rather well. I know you've seen many styles of these latches in the old farms. Keep up the good work, I truly enjoy watching your pod cast and listening to you speak. You all come across as fine, decent folk. The sort of people that truly made this country great. ( Not like today people).
Hate to be picky but a railroad tie is the sleeper the tracks rest upon to transfer the weight from the rail to the ballast (rock) and on into the ground. I've heard them called cross ties and or sleepies. The item you keep calling a tie is a railroad spike. In your Firefox I personally wouldn't use the 2 threaded rod or bolts to hold the vent cover in place. You will be using 1 or 2 hands to adjust it and if rusted they become a pain in the butt. A simple sliding plate is easier to operate and maintain. Look at some foundation vents on your house and you may see a good example. Sliding sideways eliminates the extra hardware and the time to adjust it. As you move it left or right the opening will aline with the holes behind it to allow good control for draft. It's like the draft controll on some grills. I made my hillside cutout for the firefox bigger so that I don't have to bend over to see in at the fuel or to operate the controls. It makes for a bigger cut out in the hill side. The area I stand is a simple slab (could have been stones). I erected a small but sturdy roof over it all and it keeps the dirt from caving in on the slab area with a stone wall with gravel behind it to direct any water away from the cutout. Now I can safely store some wood out of the weather, (Keeps it all at the same moisture and I only have to carry wood once till I use up all I stacked the 1st time! Oh the other side I have a shelf to set things on I will be using (temp probes etc, gloves, lighter, some firestarter all in a box to keep it dry and the occasional possum or raccoon out of it). Just some ideas I used, they work nicely for me but to each their own. Love your videos, thanks. Von
For those of you worried about the barrel rusting out let me assure you that it WILL rust out or rot out from the fire inside. When I 1st started making "bio char" the barrels only lasted a few weeks and needed to be replaced. I no longer use the barrels for either projects. As far as painting the barrel inside I'd be worried about the fumes from gassing of contaminating my food.
I have seen at one friend the smoke input. He had filter on it. Metal screen basket filled with stones, biggest was in size of egg, 10 centimeters of stones minimum. He change stones when they are overfill with carbon.
Using a rain gutter will cut down on splashing mud against the building. Was wondering how you attached the building to the slab?
Great video. Thank you guys
Stick with any fruit or nut trees for your wood source.
I will be building my own smoke house this summer. Thanks for the tips. Great video.
Shou sugi ban the smokehouse... what a fitting way to seal the wood of a smokehouse
Very interesting, easily understood. Built like most people can manage it.
i watched the video on beekeeping and this one also. i am a beekeeper and i would like to know where this living web farms is located? i am in NC, Cleveland County. Thanks for your videos. Really enjoy them.
They are over in the Asheville area.
Great information, I will be building a smoke house very similar as yours. Thank you for sharing your design and information.
Hi, can i ask what’s the ideal fire for cold smoke?
Wow, very good discussion.
Where and when did you have this.
I'm in the north east US.
and have some family out in Vancouver, and on the cult bc.
That ar native.
and seems like every on has some form of smoke house and know they smoke alot of salmon.
Lots of life time knowledge.
Good video. I would not have placed that metal drum and covered it with soil. I mean, that would probably last one year at most? I live in Florida and the ground is moist all the time, and then having to replace the drum again. That smoke coming out of the opening of the barrel, seems like a draft problem, think about it. Why would smoke be coming out if there's good draft? Hummmmm? A lot of good info on this video regardless of the details. Thank you.
one thing you left out what is cold smoke?
Could you use the fruit of the tree to smoke with, like the apple, pine cone, pineapple, pear ???
Stick with any fruit or nut trees for your wood source.
Thanks Dear!
Great work!
was he hanging wet bacon in smoker ?
love them pancakes
Also have members in tofino bc.
more Meredith videos please! especially charcuterie!
awesome job!