Contents
- Design options
- Selection and preparation of cylinders
- DIY manufacturing rules
- What and how can be smoked in the barbecue from a gas cylinder
- Conclusion
Do-it-yourself smokehouse-brazier from a gas cylinder can be made by any person involved in welding. The design is often made multifunctional, on which it is possible to cook dishes according to different recipes. There are several options for such smokehouses. To make one of them, you need a scheme, 2-3 cylinders and a desire to work.
Design options
The smokehouse is a closed chamber with suspended products. Smoke from the smoke generator is fed through the channel inside. This scheme is acceptable for a cold smoked smokehouse. The second design option similarly has a closed chamber. There is no need for a smoke generator to produce smoke. The camera is installed above the furnace. The fire warms up its bottom, due to which the smoldering of wood chips begins. This scheme is used for hot smoked smokehouse.
Multifunctional smokehouse consists of 3 cylinders
Smokehouses are not limited to the difference in the type of smoking. Often they are made multifunctional, allowing you to cook other dishes:
- Brazier. The device is a trough where you can cook barbecue on skewers. It is made from a horizontally laid cylinder with a cut-out window on the side. Stops can be welded onto the brazier from the inside and a grate can be laid on them. Now it is available to use as a barbecue. However, that’s not all. The segment cut from the side shelf of the cylinder is not thrown away, but is fixed in the same place with loops. It turns out a cover. If you equip the brazier with a grate and cover it from above, then it turns into a grill.
- Place under the cauldron. The firebox does not have to be used only to produce smoke in the smokehouse. It is also made multifunctional. On a vertically located cylinder, the top plug is cut off. A cauldron is dipped into the hole, in which pilaf, fish soup, kulesh are cooked.
Usually a multifunctional smokehouse consists of three cylinders: 2 large pieces and one small one. A large balloon is installed vertically. He plays the role of a smokehouse, where cold smoking takes place. Behind him, a second large balloon is laid horizontally. It plays the role of a smokehouse where hot smoking takes place, and is also used for barbecue, barbecue and grill. The next in turn is the third small balloon, which is also placed vertically. He plays the role of a furnace and a place under the cauldron. All containers are interconnected by a smoke channel made of a metal pipe.
Pros and cons of designs
If there is a desire to construct a brazier smokehouse from a gas cylinder with your own hands, you need to think through all the pros and cons of such a design. If there are more positive moments, you can safely turn your idea into reality.
Of the positive points, there are:
- Simplicity of design. It is easier to weld a multifunctional smokehouse from ready-made metal containers than to build it from bricks.
- Mobility. Despite the impressive weight, the smokehouse is mobile. If you put it on wheels, then in the yard you can roll from place to place to one person.
- Long service life. Cylinders are made of thick metal. The smokehouse will last at least 10 years, and with good care it will last a lifetime.
- Aesthetics. The smokehouse can not only be welded, but the seams can be carefully cleaned, painted with fire-resistant paint, and decorated with forged elements. The design will decorate the site, places of rest near the gazebo.
Near the smokehouse, you can adapt the countertop for cutting products
Among the shortcomings, one can single out the impossibility of performing work in the absence of a welding machine and welding experience. The downside is the need for complex measures to clean the tanks from gas and condensate.
Selection and preparation of cylinders
The ideal use of a gas cylinder is explained by its characteristics. It has a convenient diameter – 300 mm, thick metal walls. In fact, this is a ready-made camera. Large containers are used to assemble a smokehouse, barbecue. A firebox is created from a small cylinder, and a place for installing a cauldron.
Condensate is drained from the cylinders, washed thoroughly with water
In addition to gas, there is liquid condensate inside the tank with a very pungent odor. All this must be removed through an open valve. Disposal is carried out away from residential areas and green spaces.
The next step is to unscrew the valve itself. It sits firmly on the thread. You’ll have to put in a lot of effort. After unscrewing the valve through the hole, the balloon is filled with water, left for a day. Liquid with condensate impurities is drained. Now it can be cut with a grinder.
DIY manufacturing rules
When the containers are prepared, you can begin to assemble the smokehouse. First, a scheme is prepared, appropriate materials and tools are selected. You need to remember about safety, because assembling a smokehouse-grill from a gas cylinder with your own hands is associated with welding and a sharp grinder.
accident prevention
Cylinder cutting is performed after liberation from gas and combustible condensate. Otherwise, an explosion may occur. When working with a grinder, the tool is positioned so that the cutting disc is to the left of the body. Sparks should fly under your feet, and not in the opposite direction.
In the course of rotation of the disk, the cut is always made from oneself
The grinder is used not only for cutting, but also welding seams are rubbed with a grinding wheel. The tool is positioned so that the disk is at an angle of 15 о to the treated area.
Model and drawing selection
The assembly of the smokehouse begins with the design. The choice of schemes here is small. The model of cold and hot smoking is assembled from three cylinders. For a smokehouse using hot smoking technology, you need two containers.
Depending on the chosen scheme, two or three cylinders will be needed to assemble the smokehouse
Preparation of tools and materials
In addition to the cylinders themselves, a pipe and elbows with a diameter of 80-100 mm are prepared for the smokehouse. You need a corner, sheet steel 4-5 mm thick, a tube with a cross section of 15 mm for the legs. If the smokehouse is supposed to be mobile, prepare the wheels. You will also need door handles, a stainless steel rod for gratings.
The welding machine is the main tool in the assembly of the smokehouse
From the tools you need a welding machine, a grinder with a set of cutting and grinding wheels. You will also need an electric drill, a hammer, a chisel, a tape measure.
Procedure
Do-it-yourself assembly of a barbecue smokehouse from a cylinder is performed in a certain sequence. First mark and saw blanks. Then everything is welded. The final is the arrangement and decoration.
Marking and sawing cylinders
The layout of the containers will depend on which type of smokehouse is selected. First, it is worth considering the simplest version of the design, which operates according to hot smoking technology, consisting of two cylinders.
Under such a smokehouse, the cylinder is placed horizontally. He will additionally play the role of a barbecue, barbecue and grill. A large rectangular window is cut out on the entire side shelf. Round holes are cut along the ends for the chimney and the smoke channel from the furnace.
At a large cylinder, a window is cut out for the entire length of the side shelf to the beginning of the joints, where the rounding of the ends is formed
The small firebox can be positioned horizontally or vertically. In the first case, a rectangular window is similarly cut out in the side shelf. However, it is impossible to install a cauldron on such a firebox. If there is such a need, the balloon is placed vertically. Cut off only the top cap, freeing up space under the cauldron. On the side shelf, two small windows are cut under the blower and the furnace door. Additionally, one round hole is cut for the smoke channel.
The next option is more difficult. Smokehouse, working on the technology of cold and hot smoking, consists of three cylinders. The firebox and brazier are made exactly the same as in the previous version. In the scheme, only the third cylinder is added under the cold smoking chamber. It is located vertically in front of the barbecue. A window is cut in the cylinder for loading products. It is located on the side at the top of the container. In length, it is about half the balloon or a little more.
A round window is cut through the top plug for the chimney. The smoke supply channel will be located on the side shelf of the cylinder in its lower part – below the loading window. Here, a similarly round window is cut under the pipe.
In addition, grates must be cut into the furnace. They can be made from a thick metal plate by drilling many holes. Smoke channels are made small. A pipe with a diameter of 80-100 mm is cut from 20 to 50 cm long. The length of the chimney is at least 1 m.
Stand
To make it convenient to smoke in a barbecue from gas cylinders, the structure is piled on a stand. Its height is adjusted according to its own growth. A stationary version of the stand is considered a design with legs. Weld it from tubes. Be sure to put jumpers so that the legs do not move apart.
For mobility of the smokehouse, the stand can be put on wheels. They are taken from an old stroller, wheelbarrow or other device.
Two wheels can be installed in the stand in front, and a leg can be welded from the pipe at the back
As a finished stand, a frame from a stroller, wheelbarrow, mechanical milking machine and other device is suitable. An important condition is the strength and stability of the structure.
Assembly and welding of the structure
The assembly of the smokehouse begins with the installation of the first cylinder on the stand. For stability, welding makes control tacks to the frame of the stand. A smoke channel pipe is inserted into a round hole, scalded. At its second end, a second balloon is inserted with a hole. The joint is welded.
If there are three chambers in the smokehouse, do the same. A piece of pipe is inserted into the hole of the second cylinder. Scald the pipe. A third cylinder is placed on the second end of the pipe with a hole, and it is processed by welding.
When the whole structure is welded, the multifunctional smokehouse is securely welded to the stand
Lids, handles, grids
The next element is welded grates of the smokehouse smoke generator. They are placed inside a small cylinder between the doors of the furnaces and the blower. The grates can be made removable by laying them on welded stands from the corners.
Grid stands are welded inside the smoking chamber, on which products will be laid. They are made in three levels. On the lower supports at the bottom of the cylinder put a drip pan for draining fat. Grids are laid on the second and third tiers. They are welded from stainless steel.
If necessary, in the smokehouse, you can make three tiers of grates for products
The cut segments from the side shelves of the cylinders are used under the doors of the smokehouse, fireboxes and the lid for the barbecue. On the one hand, they are fixed with ordinary door hinges. On the other side of the window, a limiter is welded so that the sash does not fall into the cylinder. A handle made of a non-heating material is installed on each door.
Preparation for barbecue, grill, grill
Holders are welded inside the brazier. They are similarly laid with a grid for barbecue and grill. In order to be able to fry the barbecue on the grill, along the end of the front side under the skewers, a grinder cuts cuts in 10 cm increments. On the opposite side, where the lid hinges are fixed, holes are drilled under the skewers, stepping back from the end of the side 1-2 cm.
Chimney installation
The chimney is welded to the end of the first cylinder, which plays the role of a smokehouse. If this is a hot smoked structure with a horizontal arrangement of the chamber, then first a knee is taken out of the hole, and a pipe is welded on top of it.
From a horizontally located cylinder, the chimney pipe is removed with a knee
In a cold smoked smokehouse, the cylinder is located vertically. Here, without a knee, the pipe is simply welded by inserting it into the hole at the end.
Production of shelves, fixtures
The convenience of working with the smokehouse is provided by shelves. They can be made in the form of a tabletop, placed under the barbecue on the lintels of the stand. On the shelves it is convenient to put food, wood chips for smoking, firewood.
Under firewood and wood chips, a shelf is placed at the bottom of the smokehouse stand
When cooking meat on a barbecue or grill, it has to be turned over. Accessories should always be on hand for this business. You can hang them on hooks welded to the body of the smokehouse.
Finish
So that the smokehouse does not look like a pile of metal, it is given an aesthetic appearance by finishing. Forged jewelry looks best. Handles and shelves can also be carved from wood, giving them a beautiful shape.
Forged elements make out the stand of the smokehouse itself, and if desired, they are welded onto the body of the cylinders
Sanding and painting the structure
Grinding the welds themselves is not enough. The cylinders are covered with the usual red paint. When the smokehouse starts working, the paintwork will begin to blacken, burn, emit an unpleasant smell of burning from heating. All old paint needs to be scraped off. The best way is to install a brush attachment with metal bristles on a grinder or drill. She will clean the body of the smokehouse to a shine.
If the smokehouse is not painted, over time the metal will begin to rust. For these purposes, a special thermal paint is used that does not fade.
What and how can be smoked in the barbecue from a gas cylinder
The design is considered multifunctional, suitable for different dishes. Pilaf, fish soup and other first courses are prepared in a cauldron. The brazier is in demand for frying barbecue. Steaks, sausages, vegetables are cooked on the grill and barbecue.
In the smokehouse, the fish is hung by the tail
All types of meat, fish, semi-finished products, lard are smoked in the smokehouse. The product is loaded raw salted or pre-slightly boiled. In the smokehouse, cheese, vegetables, fruits, mushrooms are smoked using cold-smoked technology.
To get different tastes of the product, wood chips from certain types of wood are chosen for smoking.
Conclusion
Do-it-yourself smokehouse-brazier from a gas cylinder can be made and installed under a canopy. This is the best place, as it is protected from rain by a roof. The product is available to cook even in bad weather.