- May 7, 2017
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Hey all, I've been scrubbing the interwebs looking for large smokehouse builds and coming up pretty blank. I plan to build a super insulated smokehouse and I'd like to pellet power it if possible. I've seen some Treager conversions, and found a company selling just the hopper/burner assembly, but I don't think they're powerful enough to heat an 8x8 or 10x10 cinder block smokehouse.
Smoking hard wood (other than apple) is hard to come by up here at the 49th parallel, and I need it to be pretty much babysitter friendly (turn it on, walk away).
My plans are to make a cinder block smokehouse insulated with perlite and then another shed built around the smokehouse with more insulation for winter smoking, and a decent foyer to house the pellet stove and pellets. I think all the insulation will pay for itself in less wood use, I need it to be efficient, unfortunately with a small pellet stove setup the heat up times might be lengthy, and recovery rate slow if I open the door, but once running it should be very stable temp.
In the gallery of: http://smokedaddyinc.com/shop.html#!/The-Pellet-Pro[emoji]174[/emoji]-18-Hopper-Assembly-Stainless-Steel-Upgrade/p/77617207/category=16172299
I see multiple units being used on smokers with far less cubic feet than the monstrosity I plan to build. I wonder how many of these units I would need to stack up?
Smoking hard wood (other than apple) is hard to come by up here at the 49th parallel, and I need it to be pretty much babysitter friendly (turn it on, walk away).
My plans are to make a cinder block smokehouse insulated with perlite and then another shed built around the smokehouse with more insulation for winter smoking, and a decent foyer to house the pellet stove and pellets. I think all the insulation will pay for itself in less wood use, I need it to be efficient, unfortunately with a small pellet stove setup the heat up times might be lengthy, and recovery rate slow if I open the door, but once running it should be very stable temp.
In the gallery of: http://smokedaddyinc.com/shop.html#!/The-Pellet-Pro[emoji]174[/emoji]-18-Hopper-Assembly-Stainless-Steel-Upgrade/p/77617207/category=16172299
I see multiple units being used on smokers with far less cubic feet than the monstrosity I plan to build. I wonder how many of these units I would need to stack up?