Improvised cold smoking
 

So I'm visiting in-laws in North Carolina and they wanted me to cure and smoke them some bacon. I cured the bacon for a week while I was at home and today I'm gonna cold smoke the bacon with Apple pellets. The in-laws don't have any kind of smoker or BBQ so I'm using a cardboard box.

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I took 2 left over pieces of quarter-round and ran them through the box to rest 2 cooling trays on them. I used my homebrew cold smoker and set it on another cooling tray and put foil under it so I wouldn't burn the deck up.

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I'll be letting the bacon smoke for 8-10 hours. It's gonna be delicious! Thanks for looking!

Chris



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Very cool. Love the ingenuity.

Alton Brown style box smoker!

Cool! Awesome looking yard too!


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Thanks. And the yard is awesome, I only wish it was mine. These pictures don't really do it justice.

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Great way to improvise! :thumb: :grin:

that is pretty cool. how did you make the smoker part at the bottom?

Great cold smoker! I love it!

I used some bent expanded metal that's wrapped in foil that has lots of little holes in it. I'm burning apple pellets in it. Here is a post of the first time I used it where you can see it better:

http://www.bbq-brethren.com/forum/sh...d.php?t=146356



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Nice!!!

You beat me to it.:razz:

Ez,pee zee. Lookin good.

Nice, Something I can rarely do In our winters, The lowest it goes in my area is 45f nights and 65f days all in 24 hours.
But when I do, I use a Pro Q cold smoke generator and sit it on the bottom of a WSM.
My fave is cold smoked salmon