Sausages, bacon, ham, venison, turkey, ribs, cheeses, salmon… These are just some of the many amazing foods you can make with a smoker!
If you’re dreaming of delicious, freshly smoked food made in your backyard, then this is a great project for you – your smokehouse. Most commercially sold smokers are small and are only for hot-smoking – this limits the kind and amount of food you can make. So a great solution would be to make your own. You can make as much as you want or a family occasion requires.
Most books on smoking just give some elementary information and then are filled with recipes; this book is the reverse, scholarly information and theory as it applies to smoking meats and a few recipes that will get one started.
This cement block smokehouse is a great DIY project that will inspire you to experiment with making delicious food. It has a lot of room, so you can smoke huge amounts in a single batch. It also allows for cold smoking, which is entirely different from hot smoking.
Do you have several smoker recipes that you want to try? Make a cement block smokehouse and experiment with all your recipes for it! Here’s how…
Materials:
- Concrete Mix
- Cement Blocks
- Rafters
- Roof Shingles
- 32 7-1/2″ Glass Blocks (for windows)
- 100 sq ft Shingles
- 4 sheets of Plywood
- Firebox
Tools:
- Measuring Tape
- Chalk Line
- Spirit Level (2-foot or 4-foot)
- Square
- Trowel
- Shovel
- Corner Plastic Line Blocks
- Wheelbarrow/Mortar Board
- Hammer/Nail Gun
- Circular Saw
- Cordless Drill
- Speed Square
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Thanks to Just Two Farm Kids for this great project. You can get step-by-step instructions here…
