Bacon King
MemberGot rid of the matchlight.
- Joined
- Oct 12, 2017
- Location
- Haymarket, VA
Hello my fellow BBQ Bretheren. First let me start off by saying that I am excited to apart of this awesome group of BBQ enthusiests.
I am starting this thread because I would like some advice / feedback on a new vertical smoker that I am in the design phase on. I have built several UDS's in the past with great success and although simple to use definitely lacking on the cooking area. A few moths ago I purchased a Long Horn Reverse flow stick burner and that gave me a lot more space but with a bigger smoker comes more demand and now I am looking to make something that I would not have to expand for a while.
Due to the work I do for my full time job I come across alot of cool free stuff. If you look at the photo I have attached I plan to make this into a large vertical smoker. It is a large AV Rack which I will refer to it as Rack from now on.
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What I plan to do here is to build some sort of fire box in the lower 1/4 of this cabinet with firebrick and some sort of door (Chimney cleanout door?) big enough that I can throw sticks in once my fire has started. I also want to make this firebox in a way that I can have it raised up a little bit so that I can have Expanded metal as the base so that as the wood burns the coals will fall through to a catch pan. What I would also like to incorporate into my fire box is a Hole drilled through the side of it and the Rack in which i will insert a gas pipe so that My CyberQ can be incorporated.
As far as insulation for the cooking chamber this is where I may need some feedback / advice. I was origonally thinking of lining the whole thing in firebrick but thought about the logistics of transport / cost. I have been researching Ceramic Fiber blankets, RoXul, Firewool to line the inside walls with and cover with sheet aluminum / aluminum foil.
I have the cooking racks figured out I have ventilated shelves that are designed for these Racks that I will mount on the front rails / back rails (photos to come) and what this will allow me to do is slide full sized sheet cooling racks onto the shelves for my cooking surface. i should be able to easily fit 8-10 sheets in this thing.
I plan on also mounting 3 digital temp gauges onto the top face of the Rack for a constant digital readout of the top, middle, bottom of the smoker at all times.
Let me know what yall think all feed back is appreciated.
I am starting this thread because I would like some advice / feedback on a new vertical smoker that I am in the design phase on. I have built several UDS's in the past with great success and although simple to use definitely lacking on the cooking area. A few moths ago I purchased a Long Horn Reverse flow stick burner and that gave me a lot more space but with a bigger smoker comes more demand and now I am looking to make something that I would not have to expand for a while.
Due to the work I do for my full time job I come across alot of cool free stuff. If you look at the photo I have attached I plan to make this into a large vertical smoker. It is a large AV Rack which I will refer to it as Rack from now on.
What I plan to do here is to build some sort of fire box in the lower 1/4 of this cabinet with firebrick and some sort of door (Chimney cleanout door?) big enough that I can throw sticks in once my fire has started. I also want to make this firebox in a way that I can have it raised up a little bit so that I can have Expanded metal as the base so that as the wood burns the coals will fall through to a catch pan. What I would also like to incorporate into my fire box is a Hole drilled through the side of it and the Rack in which i will insert a gas pipe so that My CyberQ can be incorporated.
As far as insulation for the cooking chamber this is where I may need some feedback / advice. I was origonally thinking of lining the whole thing in firebrick but thought about the logistics of transport / cost. I have been researching Ceramic Fiber blankets, RoXul, Firewool to line the inside walls with and cover with sheet aluminum / aluminum foil.
I have the cooking racks figured out I have ventilated shelves that are designed for these Racks that I will mount on the front rails / back rails (photos to come) and what this will allow me to do is slide full sized sheet cooling racks onto the shelves for my cooking surface. i should be able to easily fit 8-10 sheets in this thing.
I plan on also mounting 3 digital temp gauges onto the top face of the Rack for a constant digital readout of the top, middle, bottom of the smoker at all times.
Let me know what yall think all feed back is appreciated.