DIY Smoker

[Devonian]

Great little instructional and article on building your own Cold Smoker, plus tips on how to smoke food etc:

http://www.jamieoliver.com/jimmysmoker/sg.pdf

Also you do not have to use Oak Barrels I seen example online using everything from old kitchen cupboards/wardrobes to metal bins to old fridges, so use your imagine or what you already have....

Also you don't have to have an upper and lower smoking chamber.

[Mortblanc]

Works fine for small batches.

Hopefully you would have more than a barrel would hold.

We had a free standing shed with a woodstove outside pumping smoke in for cold smoking, or we could build a fire directly on the stone floor to smoke and raise the temp at the same time.

[Devonian]

Yes I was recently watching an episode of Wild Alaska and some guy there was using a huge great 30 foot tall shed in which he was smoking thousands of salmon fillets at a time, just for his own winter stores!

A "well sealed" timber shed would indeed be ideal and give more room for moving around whilst hanging the meet/fish etc.