Custom build/DIY BBQ Offset Smoker

[normalbloke]

Great work OP. Here is my poor effort. I was teaching myself to TIG weld, and I’m better with an objective than just practice,practice,practice. It has some of my worst and best welding on it. It’s almost 100% stainless steel, can be used as a slow smoker or a fast regular BBQ. I was fed up of bbqs going brown hence the stainless.

[Ranger 6]

theHotHead said:

Decided I needed a big grill too, so built a Santa Maria grill too

When you said you'd built a grill too I did wonder if it would have the scale of the smoker!!

I suppose you need something big to take your mind off the day job!!

[theHotHead]

normalbloke said:

Great work OP. Here is my poor effort. I was teaching myself to TIG weld, and I’m better with an objective than just practice,practice,practice. It has some of my worst and best welding on it. It’s almost 100% stainless steel, can be used as a slow smoker or a fast regular BBQ. I was fed up of bbqs going brown hence the stainless.

I think that looks brilliant, unique. Is that a replaceable gas cannister or is it empty and you use charcoal/wood in it ?

[normalbloke]

theHotHead said:

normalbloke said:

Great work OP. Here is my poor effort. I was teaching myself to TIG weld, and I’m better with an objective than just practice,practice,practice. It has some of my worst and best welding on it. It’s almost 100% stainless steel, can be used as a slow smoker or a fast regular BBQ. I was fed up of bbqs going brown hence the stainless.

I think that looks brilliant, unique. Is that a replaceable gas cannister or is it empty and you use charcoal/wood in it ?

It’s designed to be filled with wood/flavoured chippings etc. It can be either used as a normal fast cook bbq, or closed up, and used as a slow smoker by burning the wood in the gas cylinder. There is a 3” manual exhaust cutoff valve under it which allows me to really slow the airflow down and keep the temps under control in the main body.

Edited by normalbloke on Wednesday 3rd November 14:31

[theHotHead]

From my perspective it was worth it to build it. It still worked out cheaper for me because I ended up getting what I wanted, I was looking north of £5500 for a custom build.

I could've compromised but I didn't want to in the end. Had my garden been more accessible I definitely would've bought a ready made smoker. But it turns out I learned how to do metalwork and weld and bonded with my brother, so for me it was a fantastic project with great learning.

Dining chair just broke, the missus asked me to fix it, will take it to my local workshop and weld it