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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    And I would like to thank everyone for all the feedback! I've been trying to solve this on my own for a long while now and it's very frustrating.
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    I have never had it run for more than a couple hours. once I had it run for 4 hours maybe but at that time I was not smoking anything, i was just trying it out and seeing if it would stay lit and that time I did re-fule it. as I mentioned to jck just before this I've tried everything from sliced...
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    I've tried everything from 20 minutes to an hour. I've also tried sliced pieces of charcutier and bologna just to try it out for like 10-15 minutes and they were basically inedible after. Yesterday i tried a whole sausage that made, I smoked it for around 1-2 hours and it kinda had that bitter...
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    I have it in the fridge now resting and ill try it in a couple weeks, thanks a lot!
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    Thanks a lot! I will look into that option then. It seems like most people are recommending this type of cold smoker over one with a fan or air pump. how come? is this a safer option because the wood is burning at a lower temp?
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    I did try that with a blower fan but i attached it to blow clean air inside of my curing chamber instead of pulling it out.
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    I've tried both oak and apple wood, oak chunks and apple pellets. I also tried putting them both in a small blender to make them finer.
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    I did find that mod. but the thing is that I live in Sweden and those types of mailboxes are not availed here. I will post a pic of basically the only type of mailbox we have here. And I'm trying to make this as cheap as possible because I'm a 20yo student with a part time job so im trying not...
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    and just to clarify thing for me. the only problem with my build is that i have stale smoke?
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    i would post a picture of the vessel im using to smoke but it's late here and i cant take a good picture of it
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    Thanks a lot! i never managed to find that when i was googling. all i found was youtube videos so i based it on that and on the commercial ones i found
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    the vessel is an old metal cabinet that is that is around 50cm/20 inches on all sides. i just drilled a hole on the bottom part of it for the smoke generator and a vent on top. the vent is 6cm/2.3 inches in diameter.
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    the pipe is 14 millimeter in diameter and it was moving the smoke pretty fast when i was using it but ill try it with a wider pipe
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    the picture i posted is what I'm using. i made it from a thermos i had, drilled a hole for the pipe that the air pump is connected to and another hole for the smoke to come out of. i also have a smaller hole at the bottom to ignite the wood.
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    i will try making a bigger one with a longer pipe but how does a shorter pipe hold stale smoke? I thought it would be better with a shorter pipe
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    Bitter taste when cold smoking with homemade smoke generator

    Hi! I'm new to smoking but I recently picked up the hobby of sausage making and charcutier and its been going pretty good. so I figured I would take the next step of cold smoking my meat product, i have watched a lot of YouTube videos on how they're made and I tried a few experiments on my own...
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