How to build a smoker from a trash can and other things you can build

Michael Pusaterimichael@cruftbox.com

Built 2011 – SxSW Interactive

This has nothing to do with bikes(but I am a cyclist)

Alton Brown’s cardboard smoker

The hack is the hook

Smoking = slow cooking w/ smoke

Simple design = best start

Metal doesn’t burn

Testing is valuable

Into the fire

Iteration & Variation

Improvise around problems

Trashcan turkey for Thanksgiving

Cold Smoker to cure bacon

In a trash can,Of course

Homemade bacon=

Regular bacon

Gyro Meat Cooker (sans trash can)

Curing meat uses potassium nitrate

Kirk defeats the Gorn!

Carbon +Sulfur +KNO3 =

Gunpowder

Failure is an option

Go build things

Imitate, Innovate, Improvise

Michael Pusaterimichael@cruftbox.com