Smokin'

[FungiJus]

Me and Jim down the road are getting a few things together to have a go at cold smoking.

I picked up an old metal bread bin at the tip last weekend for a quid, and Jim has a fairly large cylindrical barbeque, with a hole in the side to attach an inlet tube. Plan is to adapt the bread bin, attach some ally chimney liner pipe to the top, and set fire to a bunch of oak chippings in the bread bin (this has a rather handy roll around lid for easy access to maintain the smoke during use).

I picked up some dry, dead branches / twigs which were still attached to the oak trees and plan to run these through my Dad's shredder to make the chips.

Question is whether to use the dry wood I have collected, or to go for green wood, chip this and dry it (or not?) before use.

Any experiences with this type of thing would be appreciated. I can post some photos of the set-up if there is any interest?

Hopefully it will be more successful than my attemp at Jim Ford's 'smokeless' dog food can woodburning stove. But that's another story.....

Cheers,
J.