Many people want to have a miniature smokehouse at home, since smoked meat can be an excellent dish. Finished smoked products can, of course, be purchased in supermarkets, but why spend extra money if you can make a budget smokehouse do it yourself.
Let's start by listing the materials we need:
1. a small boiler, which is designed to heat half a liter of water;
2. food foil;
3. alder sawdust;
4. a three-liter jar;
5. a cover from a can;
6. culinary drumstick.
We recommend using alder sawdust, since their burning temperature is much lower compared to oak and juniper. Let's start making a miniature smokehouse. We take a jar and pour on the bottom of the sawdust so as to get a thickness of about 3 centimeters.
After that, we take food foil, from which we cut a blank of a square shape measuring 35 by 35 centimeters. We fold the square foil twice in half and put it on sawdust. Thus, a protective layer is formed, which will prevent the glass from overheating.
The next step is to take care of protecting the boiler body, which is made of plastic, because at high temperatures it will simply melt, as a result of which the contacts will close. To prevent this, we wrap plastic elements with food foil, taking care also of the insulation of the iron tubes.
After that, put the boiler in a jar so that the iron pipes do not come in contact with the walls and bottom.
Lightly soak the sawdust and place them on the soldering iron tubes to form an electric fire.
We proceed to the preparation of the remaining parts of the smokehouse. Let's start with the plastic cover. We make a hole about a centimeter thick on it. After that, we need a twine, about 25 cm long. We tie a knot on the twine and thread it through the hole made on the lid. In order to fix the twine, you can use a wooden toothpick.
In order to smoke meat, cook it to a ready state, then we attach it to the twine, adjusting the length of the twine so that the meat does not touch the sawdust.Finally, put the meat in a jar, close the lid and turn on the boiler for about 40 seconds.
40 seconds is enough for smoke to form in the jar. If you keep the boiler on for longer, then there is a chance of a sawdust explosion, which of course is not necessary. After this time, the temperature in the bank will reach 75 degrees, which is quite enough.
The meat in the miniature smokehouse will be ready when the smoke settles.
