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Article: Make a smoker from a cardboard box. (Homestead crafts).
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- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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I remember as a child growing up on a Michigan dirt farm how my grandfather used to make the most mouth watering, just plain incredible-tasting smoked delicacies. Hams, farm-reared chickens and turkeys, and whatever else happened to be handy. Even eggs were smoked! (As was homemade cheddar cheese and nuts.) We even pickled our own hogs' feet and bologna.
The nice thing about the hobby of smoking meat and snack sticks is that it can be as simple or as elaborate as you want to make it. For a simple smoke house you will need a cardboard box, a stove pipe, some rocks, charcoal, hardwood for smoking (we will discuss this in a minute), 8-20 feet of dowel rod, and some ...