Homemade smoked dishes are dishes that can pleasantly surprise and delight the owners of the house and their guests. It’s easy to prepare a delicacy if the household has a smokehouse from an automatic washing machine, made with your own hands without unnecessary hassle and financial costs. This is a device that will help diversify your diet, use poultry or caught fish for cooking. Make a smokehouse like this or even a barbecue And juicer It’s not difficult, you need to take the advice of experienced handmakers and available tools.
Amazing design
A smokehouse made from an old washing machine is a unit that can be used not only in a country house. You can use it by installing it on the balcony of a city apartment. It will not take up much space, will be in demand, and will amaze with its functionality and performance.
Before you start creating an unusual design, you need to study the drawings and make the right choice regarding the washing machine that has become unusable. It's better if it is automatic washing machine with vertical loading. Its advantages:
- Ease of manufacture.
- Minimum cooking time.
- Compactness.
- Variety of products to be smoked.
This became an important condition for using a homemade unit on a suburban area. The solution to the problem is the construction of a cold smoking device. After such processing, products are stored for a long time, do not require refrigeration, and do not cause harm to health. It is also important that the absence of a fire is a guarantee of fire safety of the structure.
A hot smoked smokehouse is constructed from automatic washing machine, or rather from her drum. It is often used during outdoor recreation, in a place where it is not difficult to start and put out a fire. The advantage of processing food by heating and fumigation is that cooking time is significantly reduced and the volume of raw product is increased.
- in the backyard of a country house, an area is planned where it is necessary to dig a hole 0.5-1 m deep;
- lay an asbestos pipe (chimney) underground from it;
- arrange masonry from natural stone or rubble bricks;
- prepare a sheet of iron (used as a lid over the firebox);
- stock up on rags and firewood;
- prepare bars or reinforcing rods on which the semi-finished product will be fixed.
The Riga washing machine, or rather its body, is used as a chamber for processing semi-finished products.To set up a fireplace, the walls of the pit should be lined with bricks, a sheet of iron should be placed on the bottom, and a second one will be useful for regulating the heat (a lid over the fireplace).
The hot smoking chamber does not require much space, as it is placed directly above the fireplace. Suitable for creating a unit drum from an automatic washing machine or a solid body from a Soviet-era unit.
The difficulty when working on creating such a smokehouse is that before you start using it, you will have to close all the holes in the walls of the drum. Another important detail is the lid, which fits tightly and prevents air penetration.
Work order
To make a smokehouse from a washing machine, you need to decide on the method of preparing the products to be smoked. Processing without exposure to high temperatures requires more careful preparation and a variety of additional work. First of all, you should pay special attention to the choice of the site on which the smokehouse will be installed. It is better if this place is hidden from prying eyes. The cold smoking process is quite lengthy and therefore not very popular.
It is much easier to build a chamber for hot smoking with your own hands, using a tank from an activator-type washing machine:
- By turning the machine upside down, they get rid of all the parts that can be considered unnecessary, leaving only the stainless steel body.
- In order for the smoke to remain inside the chamber until the smoking process is completed, all holes at the bottom of the tank must be welded using electrodes and a welding machine.
- Having retreated a few centimeters from the bottom plane (5-6 cm along the side surface), cut out a small window intended for throwing wood chips during cooking.
- They build a support on which the tank (body) of the machine will be installed.
- Return the housing to the correct position (bottom down) and begin to arrange a support for the grate inside the drum.
- The performance of the smokehouse will depend on the number of grates installed inside the tank.
The support for the first grid is made at a height of at least 40 cm from the bottom, the next one will be located at a distance of 25-30 cm from the first.
The prepared structure is installed above a hole previously made in the ground. Its depth should not be less than 50 cm. This will allow you to build a fire and achieve sufficient heat so that the bottom of the tank becomes hot, and the wood chips placed inside begin to smolder, releasing aromatic thick smoke.
As needed, firewood is added to the fire, and wood chips are added to the tank. After 1-1.5 hours you can take a sample.
Modern version
An improved smokehouse from a washing machine drum is a unit equipped with a spiral that heats up under the influence of electric current. This is exactly the device that is installed on the balconies of city apartments when it is not possible to use a smokehouse outside the city on a personal plot.
The creation of this design requires great care and experience in working with electrical devices. The master needs:
- adjust voltage;
- calculate the optimal distance from smoldering chips to the semi-finished product;
- Take into account the energy consumption during cooking.
The spiral is attached to the outer surface of the bottom of the tank to provide access to the heating element. A tray is installed above the wood chips to collect draining fat, and rods are welded in the upper part of the body. Semi-finished products to be smoked are hung on them using hooks.
The efficiency of the process is not reduced if all actions are performed strictly in the established order. First of all, sawdust is poured onto the bottom of the tank, then the semi-finished product is suspended and only after that the heating element is turned on. Cooking begins from the moment the sawdust begins to smolder, emitting thick smoke.
In addition, from a used washing machine you can also construct:
- lawnmower,
- grass cutter,
- electric bike,
- honey extractor,
- Potter's wheel,
- wood splitter,
- concrete mixer,
- lathe,
- juicer,
- circular
- and much more.
