Love not only to work in the country, but also to relax? Are you hospitable and won't refuse to spend time in good company with a glass of cold, fresh, foaming beer? Now add to this a smoked fish that you make yourself ...
And for this, you guessed it, you need a smokehouse. Options for creating this useful and necessary device (especially if summer resident still not averse to fishing, and with a good catch, even making money) quite a lot, but they all require significant material costs. That option of creating a smokehouse do it yourself, which will be proposed in this article, will not take much time from the summer resident, and will also be affordable for a family with almost any material income. The main thing is desire and patience.
The first thing you need to do to a summer resident is to choose a place for a smokehouse. Place it as far away as possible from residential buildings and utility rooms, as well as from trees and any flammable materials, as improper use of the smokehouse often leads to fires.
Next, mark the place intended for the underground chimney. The width of the canal will be 35 cm, together with the brick - 53 cm, the length - 300 cm, and the height - 26-27 cm. For the construction of the canal, use only clay bricks, because synthetic materials can poison your entire family.
Now you need to measure the smoke chamber. Well, if its height does not exceed 1.5 m, and the area - 1 square. m
The smoking chamber can be made both of brick, and can be the most ordinary metal barrel.
Take measurements very accurately, as errors in the work will then affect the result. Have you done? Now you can begin to solve the main problem.
The first thing to do is dig a place you designated in advance for the smoke channel. Pay attention to whether your smokehouse is on a hill. If so, then the channel must be located only above the future smoke chamber.
Then the walls of the channel are erected. To do this, the brick is laid on the edge.
If you want the channel to be very durable, use a clay solution.As soon as you masonry along the two walls of the channel, cover the latter with a brick or metal sheet, the thickness of which does not exceed 4-5 mm.
When the construction of the canal is completed, you can go directly to building our smoking chamber. Remember that the channel must certainly enter the chamber itself exactly 20 cm. This is necessary so that the smoke has time to exit in a timely manner.
Depending on which base of the chamber you have chosen (brick or metal barrel), a smokehouse is being built. If it is a barrel, then the bottom must be removed.
The top of your cell will serve as a place for smoking fish or meat. In order for the products to hold well, conventional rods (30 mm) are used.
Another important part of the smokehouse is the damper. It should ideally fit to the upper part of the smokehouse (brick walls or to the barrel) to prevent the release of heat and smoke. The best option is a sheet of metal with a thickness of 4 mm. If it happens that the damper is not very tight against the smokehouse, then it should be made heavier by placing several bricks on top of it.
You can smoke fish and feel free to call friends!