Smoker Firebox Door Design
The door doors design is a personal choice.
Smoker firebox door design. Your fire box sounds like it would be big enough for the size cooking chamber that you will have. Unlike the ugly drum smoker or the flower pot smoker this is a complicated build that requires specialist tools skills and a fair bit of time. This trailer mounted smoker was built using an old 250 gallon propane tank and is the perfect size large parties catering competitions or whole hog barbecue. That s a reverse flow smoker.
Build a professional barbecue smoker. The air intakes are critical factors to providing the fire with enough air. Dyna glo dgo1176bdc d charcoal offset smoker this isn t your typical wood burning offset smoker as it has a cabinet configuration with a firebox that s more designed for charcoal. But a rule of thumb that goes for a lot of things is bigger is.
These are just guidelines based on years building smokers but your mileage may vary. 4 75 hinge pin non greasable smoker hinge 8 79. See more ideas about bbq smokers bbq smoker. The old gas tank in question forms the cooking chamber of offset smoker and the diy part is adding the frame and the firebox.
4 75 inch bullet weld on hinge w zerk. Weld on butt hinge 6 in x 3 in smoker pit door parts. The traditional design of a firebox is a tube or a box made of one thickness of metal. There are any number of ways to design and build a bbq smoker.
A word of warning. Typically the more expensive the thicker the metal and the thicker the metal the better the heat retention and therefore efficiency. Jul 11 2012 ideas for the bbq smoker i am thinking about building. I elected to make two larger doors with the little door in the middle shown cut out in this pic so that my cook racks could be one piece slide out and i would have room to place a whole hog in it without fighting to wiggle it in and around a.
It s a fantastic design for making great bbq. The chimney is the work horse of the smoker drawing smoke and hot air from the firebox into the cook chamber. Mark and cut whatever you feel will work best for you. Hopefully this calculator will help you with the calculations.
The industry standard for premium offset smokers is now 6mm 1 4. This instructable will show you how to build the ultimate backyard barbecue pit. The general rule of thumb for a horizontal smoker is that the firebox should be 1 3 the size volume of the cooking chamber. Weld on butt hinge 3 x 3 for bbq smoker door firebox.