I've ordered a Smokai

[Pferdestarke]

A Smokai is a smoke generator suitable for hot or cold smoking. It's manufactured in New Zealand and is a very cool piece of kit.

Whilst I've had some success with my Pro q smoker, I find maintaining temperature a bind and the effort needed to get charcoal lit and burn evenly an issue.

So, here's my logic:

Source a second hand good quality electric oven (done on Pre-Loved for £30, a 3 year old Bosch)

Attach Smokai through side of oven, add an exhaust vent to the top to allow smoke to escape and guard against smoke flavour becoming too heavy.

Utilise oven chamber for cold smoking cured fish and bacon etc.

Utilise oven thermostat to maintain very even temperature for hot smoking, taking heat from oven elements and smoke from Smokai to produce smoked fish, brisket, pork butt and chicken etc.

All this will be done in a vented garage with exhaust piped to outside.

Here's a link to the product and also the oven conversion.

Any tips? Any takers?

http://youtu.be/AzP76bNxt4o

http://youtu.be/aMjFfVZbrTw

[scottri]

Sounds like a good idea. Essentially the same as the electric pellet smokers but cheaper i guess....

Or you could have bought a https://www.bbqguru.com/ and taken all the stress out of using the ProQ.