Poor Man's Smoker

[ADigitalArtist]

Continuing a holiday tradition of making friends and family smoked cheese as stocking stuffers. All hard and firm cheeses so they're shelf stable. Everything from Cheddar to Gouda to Provolone to Monterey Jack.

All smoked in a cardboard box!

It's a fun activity, and costs very little.

 

[JustGeorge]

My first dumpling steamer was the lid off an old hamster cage and a tea towel...

Gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

My first dumpling steamer was the lid off an old hamster cage and a tea towel...

Gotta do what you gotta do.

I learned how to do this fishing. We would catch, clean, fillet, season and throw on the resting rack in the cardboard box. So the prospect of spending hundreds or thousands on a smoke box and I'm like '...but I can do it in a cardboard box for a dollar.'

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Continuing a holiday tradition of making friends and family smoked cheese as stocking stuffers. All hard and firm cheeses so they're shelf stable. Everything from Cheddar to Gouda to Provolone to Monterey Jack.

All smoked in a cardboard box!

It's a fun activity, and costs very little.
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Have you tried different woods?

 

[Subduction Zone]

It will never work

Here is a serious question, I assume that you close the box while it is smoking?

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Have you tried different woods?

Yes although I have this massive box of hickory I got on sale so I'm going through it. Applewood is also great.

 

[ADigitalArtist]

It will never work

Here is a serious question, I assume that you close the box while it is smoking?

Yes. Although not too tightly. I want it to be able to vent a little like a proper smoker chimney.

 

[McBell]

Get a chance, check out a show called Good Eats with Alton Brown.
He presents numerous different ways to create a smoker.
From his seeming favourite, cardboard box to plant pots, and all kinds of other WTF materials.

How to Build Alton Brown’s Cardboard Box Smoker - Alton Brown

 

[SomeRandom]

Wow, I thought of a err “different kind” of smoker when I read the op
Bit disappointed if I’m honest

 

[ADigitalArtist]

Get a chance, check out a show called Good Eats with Alton Brown.
He presents numerous different ways to create a smoker.
From his seeming favourite, cardboard box to plant pots, and all kinds of other WTF materials.

How to Build Alton Brown’s Cardboard Box Smoker - Alton Brown

I love Good Eats. A couple dvd box sets were a wedding gift for my husband and I. I saw his plant pot smoker but not the box one. Awesome!

 

[McBell]

I love Good Eats. A couple dvd box sets were a wedding gift for my husband and I. I saw his plant pot smoker but not the box one. Awesome!

I like using the cardboard box with the sawdust....
Though you have to pay more attention when using sawdust, it runs out on you a lot quicker.

 

[Dan From Smithville]

Yes although I have this massive box of hickory I got on sale so I'm going through it. Applewood is also great.

That is the wood that I was thinking about. How fortuitous.