Indoor smoker mod?

[midnight]

With the cold windy weather we have up here during winter I got tired of standing outside and freezing my ass off when cooking, so I came up with a way to leave my cooker in the garage and vent it outside.

I opened a small window and put a piece of plywood with a 7inch hole in it over the opening. Then took a piece of 6" (I think) aluminum double walled gas vent pipe 36" long and cut it down to 24". I bought a 6" gas vent adjustable elbow and bent one end with a rubber mallet to fit over my vent pipe (with the vent cover removed). I put the pipe into the elbow and through the hole in the plywood making sure that the air flow still flowed up.

On the out side I put on a vent cap to keep out the wind. I can still take the cap off and pull in the pipe so I can shut the window if I want. Only bad thing is that I didn't extend the pipe far enough out the window and now my white garage has a brown smoke stain down its side.

This is the second year that I am using it this way and I havn't had any problems yet; sometimes I do need to open the garage door part way to clear out some smoke when I first start it up. I plan on adding a sheet of cement board to the wall behind the smoker so I don't start my garage on fire, but so far the wall hasn't gotten very hot even after 12 hours.

[in2que]

Great mod, and I'll bet it smells heavenly in there!

[Oldtimer]

That is farking slick. But the temp gauge seems off, or is it the smoker ?

[egkor]

I like the idea.

Do you crack open a door or window somewhere to let some air/oxygen into the space?

Regards,
-egkor (Gary K)

[BBQchef33]

Always wondered if doing that effects draft. I know length of chimney effects it.. Do you notice a difference in the way the beast works when you hook it up to that??


Niced mod... Do you mind if I include that mod in the Bandera 101 Document?

[willkat98]

Excuse me, but isn't there carbon monoxide issues or something on the firebox?

[Mark]

As I dimly recall, a tall stack will increase draft. That could be desirable. Any thoughts?
regarding CO, I don't think that will normally be an issue, unless you're keeping the firebox open to grill or something. One thing to be sure of though is to keep any gasoline cans shut. The fumes can travel and ignite.

[tommykendall]

That's a great mod. My buddy and I frequently talk about doing something like that

[willkat98]

That's a great mod. My buddy and I frequently talk about doing something like that

You mean to the outhouse?

You'd have to change that "don't **** where you eat" saying :)

[parrothead]

tommykendall wrote:
That's a great mod. My buddy and I frequently talk about doing something like that


You mean to the outhouse?

You'd have to change that "don't **** where you eat" saying

Gives a whole new meaning to "whipping up a batch of turds".

[willkat98]

Not to mention, when you **** yourself and it sizzles cuz you **** the firebox.

[parrothead]

Damn, we're just wrong mother farkers.

[tommykendall]

Yeah I know - looked like it was my turn to get bashed this morning. Don't know why - guess it was just my turn.

[midnight]

I don't know about the CO build up but I AlWAYS leave the small door open when I have it going. If it starts to get smokey I will open my big garage door about 2-3 feet. I tried it with all the doors shut and it seemed to me that the wood didn't have enough air and smoked/ smoldered more than usual, but that was before I did the fire grate mod. I think you would have little trouble if you use charcoal, but I use only wood.

The temp gauge in the pic is right....I wasn't cooking anything when I took the pic. I tried to get one of the outside vent but it was too dark.

The smell in my garage is fantastic (the dog goes nuts looking for food when she is in there.) however I found out that the smell gets into my tents that I store in the loft.

With my smoker burning the temp in my garage raises about 10 deg. and closer to the smoker it is a little warmer.