Hiya! New member from Bath

[SebHoward]

Hi all,

Came across this forum whilst researching smoking. My dad and I have been dabbling in cold smoking and a bit of hot smoking over the last few years.

I'm currently in my final year at Loughborough University studying Product Design, and have decided to focus my major project this year on the hot and cold smoking of foods. The aim of which is to design and develop a new smoking system that mitigates problems and issues that people currently have with smoking foods. Although I have some degree of experience with smoking, I am just embarking on this project so am in a very much research phase currently and would welcome any thoughts and comments that people could offer on the subject!

I am conscious that I don't want to appear to be 'spamming' any channels with links to a survey or asking questions, so if someone could offer some guidance on which channel would be appropriate for this type of thing I'd greatly appreciate it.

But other than that, its nice to meet you all!

 

[bhambrewer]

greetings from a Scotsman in Alabama. Still a relative newbie at hot and cold smoking, but feel free to ping me with questions if you need a hand translating from EN_US to EN_GB.

 

[JC in GB]

Welcome from Wisconsin.

The biggest challenge I get from cold smoking is humidity and airflow through the smoker cabinet.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

JC

 

[chef jimmyj]

Interesting project and Welcome to SMF. One thing you will have No Problem getting around here is Opinions on how it should be done. I don't think you will be Breaking any rules since what you are doing is Educational Research and not Selling anything. However, best to check with the Admin types, pc farmer bmudd14474 . Good luck...JJ

 

[Southern_Saint]

Greetings from Kentucky!

 

[JLeonard]

Greetings from Mississippi, USA. Lots of info to be gleaned from the folks here.
Jim

 

[kruizer]

Welcome to SMF from Minnesota. You have definitely come to the right place for smoking info.

 

[SebHoward]

Welcome from Wisconsin.

The biggest challenge I get from cold smoking is humidity and airflow through the smoker cabinet.

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

JC

Thanks for commenting! Yes, both things that I am considering currently - is the humidity control something that is affected by the ambient conditions where you live or the moisture in the wood chips themselves?

 

[SebHoward]

Interesting project and Welcome to SMF. One thing you will have No Problem getting around here is Opinions on how it should be done. I don't think you will be Breaking any rules since what you are doing is Educational Research and not Selling anything. However, best to check with the Admin types, pc farmer bmudd14474 . Good luck...JJ

Thanks, thats good to know! I'll drop them a message, cheers