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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    Thanks for comment, I was smoking continuously for about two months there and have slowed down now, but smoker still looks great inside, racks have preformed excellent, have had no damage to any of them, clean up is super easy. I have done numerous runs of hot and cold smoke salmon and yellowfin...
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    Filtering smoke - bubbling smoke through water?

    I just came across this discussion topic and although it's older I may have an idea for you . In my line of work as a mechanical contractor which we do , plumbing, fire protection, HVAC, gas etc... in a few specialized jobs if done, we have installed what they call air scrubbers/ filters for...
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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    I have to start by apologizing for not seeing your comments, I thought I would log in as I have not do so in some time. Im actually checking smoker as I'm doing a hot smoke with a fresh not previously frozen fish I caught the other day. It was a 16 lb spring, great size and super fight...
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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    It's a fold out tray so to speak, I can place a rack on it if I'm rotating the racks in the smoker , to place glaze and utensils, just a place to set things down when playing inside smoker . I thought the live edge would look cool. I have access to a lot of different wood as my friend that lives...
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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    Thanks, you might be stretching it with the wife comment , lol but thanks!
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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    Not that it matters to me, but i find it funny what most people are drawn to , maybe it's more relevant to what there doing? Thanks for your comments, appreciate them!
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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    I thank you for your kind words but was not my intention to belittle the hard work you have done on your smoker as it looks great. I spent way to many hours on it , but now that's it's complete and working great, I'm glad I spent the time. Thanks for your reply and smoke on!!
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    Cedar smoke house complete and working.

    Thought I would post a few pics in this forum section as I did sometime ago when building my smoke. All is working well and doing batches of hot and cold smoke salmon .
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    Help with new smoke house

    Nice build, I will attach a couple pictures of my cedar built smoker. I have only done fish in it so far, but both a hot and a cold smoke. The inside of the smoker after sanding down to a 220 grit , I oiled it with mineral oil , which is a food save product used on cutting and chopping boards ...
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    My cedar cold smoke build

    I just thought I would drop you a note about the cedar racks. I have now done three runs of cold smoke salmon and one large run of hot smoke salmon. I was quite surprised that the racks clean up super easy. The cold run barley requires any cleaning other than a quick wipe. The hot was a bit more...
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    Test run on my home built cold smoker

    Thank you for those nice words. There was some concern when building the racks on how they would perform , but I have to say they are great , have now done five runs through smoker, cold and hot , there is very little stickage , and what did stick came of with a quick brushing , there is way...
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    Test run on my home built cold smoker

    Ya it was about 2 inches from my radar dome , antenna was bent over but did not break, got extremely lucky. Back in 1996 we had a huge snow fall and had three feet in one night, which added to the foot that was already there. At the same marina that my boat is in and where that picture is ...
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    Test run on my home built cold smoker

    No it's a proline , 27 foot twin 200
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    Test run on my home built cold smoker

    I could see that , I had no time today to check as had a bit of trouble with my boat house and all the snow we got recently. I will attach a pic of it. I'm more interested in what the issue would be shipping across boarder , guess I will find out. I know people ship there catch when they come...
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