Building a smokehouse and processing cabin

hello everyone i thought i would uh make a video um of my smokehouse and my little processing shed um that we built probably about a month ago a good friend brooke fuller did all of the work inside of it so i have to uh thank him as well as his wife for allowing him to spend many hours up here helping me out with that and i have to thank a couple people for my smokehouse willie finch who's my neighbor he is the one that built it and joe welton from welton construction he's the one that the only one that i could find that could put a cedar uh roof on top that was hand cut i don't know if it's a super complicated process but he was the only one i was able to find and a lot of the metal work that you'll see inside this smokehouse was um made by larry clare out in southwest kansas and garden city he owns uh industrial manufacturing and repair he's a good friend so with all that being said oh and i have to add alex and his brother for doing all the brick work all the bricks that you'll see were reclaimed from a local college here these were pavers from the roads that were on the on the campus and since then they've replaced it with uh asphalt so i'll try to get as descriptive as i can because i'm sure there might be some people that ask questions and if i just knock it out now then that would take care of that my original thought was was to build something that was kind of antique had the antique look i did a lot of research on the internet and there was a lot of guys that had pretty cool ideas i wouldn't say that this build is perfect but it suits my needs and i'm sure i mean you can't please everybody out there but uh i'm not too worried about that so with that being said we'll get to it the door on this building is an old 1890 chicago fire door my uncle had a building down by the campus that they tore down and he was able to get three of the doors i took all three of these doors to a place to have them blasted and powder coated again and then there's a threshold plate that is from an old foundry that was in our community in 1865 it's no longer here but i figured it would look kind of neat placing it at the top right below the ventilation for the uh the roof and then i've placed as you see and i film i've got thermostats around the building to somewhat monitor the temperature so i can balance out the burners inside if i'm actually cooking inside of it but here we go i've got some salt cured hams in here from november that uh here before too long we're gonna take one out and slice it up and see how everything turned out with it but willie and i we uh decided to go ahead and use stainless steel sheeting and then put the rockwool insulation behind everything inside and out so the door has been insulated with rock wool to retain a lot of the heat i'm able to get the temperatures up in this building to about 400 degrees with not any issues and then i've got two 162 000 btu burners um they do a pretty good job i monitor uh the heat with the thermometers outside and then i'll adjust the flame to maintain certain temperatures and then i have a hole that's in the center and i've got a ductwork cap over it that that's where the smoke comes from on the outside of my uh well the firebox is outside so i can do cold smoking as well as smoking while cooking but here's the stainless walls and ceiling it's all entirely lined with stainless steel compliments of larry i got a stainless from larry once again in garden city and then he built a flu for me this is the uh part of the flu this is where it comes into the building all stainless i turned a fan on in here for circulation for the hams through my throughout my research they've always stated that you should circulate the air um larry is also he and his guys also built the the shelving in here everything has been seasoned with the oil and pretty much baked in pretty good to stop the rusting process i would have liked to have gone with stainless shelves but the the amount of money that was involved in that was it was pretty high so we went with the steel and just seasoned them so far i've done some hams which you can obviously see i did several sides of bacon and they turned out really good and it went pretty quick i had several friends that wanted to try it and they snatched it up and i've already got several people wanting me to make more hams and more bacon so i'm gonna go ahead and shut the door i don't want any unwanted pests in there munching on the hams okay and we'll walk around it the building here's my flu it's got an adjustable dampener in it it works fairly well the cap everything is stainless and i kind of well i didn't kind i did decorate the building with some signage and some antiques just to give it a kind of an antique look the whole building itself is made out of cypress um i wanted to mitigate any kind of rot or any kind of pest issues i know uh the decorations don't make the meat taste any better or anything of that nature it's just kind of a look that i was going for here is my firebox i have a pipe that's encased in concrete that leads underneath and into the building and that's what we were looking at inside but it's all made out of stainless as well quite heavy and here's an airflow door that i had put on it kind of adjust how much smoke goes in i've got a tray that's stainless down there um that i can either use wood to burn or i had a large wood pellet maze made that way i can have the options of using different types of pellets for different flavors it's kind of hard to get wood around here that's not infested with termites and stuff like that so i don't really want to have it laying around next to my building but it gives you an idea of where all the smoke and everything's coming from i'll go ahead and put this back down if you was wondering how i was able to get those out of that hole i have two handles with the little pieces of angle on the end that reaches down and lifts those up out of there alex also i had him break in the uh all the lines and stuff for the burners the victories are down there i'm going to have some cypress doors made for it to keep you know little like bees and pests out of there from making making a homes out of it and on this side there's my propane tank it's covered up and then i have an arch made to kind of house the wood and give it that kind of cool guy look so and then the shingle roof again can't say enough about alex's work he did a really good job on the the brick work so we'll go over to the processing building as i stated for brooke fuller um a neighbor and a good friend of mine he's the one that did all of the work inside uh he's a pretty good guy he couldn't have done it without him so coming inside i'm gonna turn on the light it's kind of dark outside here's my food trays um well my meat trays my grinder and i got a foot control and then the table i put a 300 pound scale in here so that way if i'm making jerky and if i've been ground i'll know the mixed ratios with the seasonings got my little flag up there a buddy of mine made it for me out in kansas then there's the uh the mixing pot for um jerky and other things sausage that hooks to my grinder we put a little air conditioner because sometimes in the summer it can get pretty hot in here and then i got my two dehydrators and a grease gun with food grade grease to lube my wizard knives as we walk into here this is a cooler that we built using a 10 000 btu air conditioner and a cool bot and i'll turn the light on and i ran a 60 amp service in here i thought it'd be adequate enough to run everything a lot of the plugs are on their own individual circuit and i put some railing at the top to hang sausage bacon i can hang in deer for several days if i want i can get the temperatures down to about 34 degrees in here with no problem and then some more racks over there i painted the inside of this with about six almost six gallons of oh it's that it's like that rubberized stuff that you can put on tools or fix um leaks and things of that nature i forgot the name of it but anyhow flex seal that's what it is sorry about that um when i painted it it was like painting bubble gum on the walls but the good thing about it is it seals up everything nicely nothing will adhere to it and um it pretty much keeps the the inside sealed up to where you know no air gets in or anything we got an insulated door the door keeps it uh nice and tight as well so out here i have a lot of my bet your wizard knives for different things boning and coring and getting into tedious areas and i've got my vacuum sealers and a jerky plaster um here's my knife sharpener and that's an ultrasonic cleaner i use that to clean my wizard knives they're somewhat of a pain to uh to keep clean and then my knife magnet with my knives and my steels and there's my power head for the wizard knife and there's the larger wizard knife that i use most of them have depth gauges so i can do thin slicing or you know trimming out fat things of that nature it makes processing animals a lot easier and faster so kind of an expensive setup i went ahead and i put a two inch i-beam in so the power head and the knife can traverse the full length of the table if there's a carcass on it or if i've got one hanging up here in the center there's a hook above the light on the other side and here we put some racks up for seasonings some cleaning supplies then i got a stainless steel sink that come from a burger king that had closed down so it was a good score for us didn't have to pay anything and it looks just fine and works just fine for our purposes and then i've got my indiana gecko setting up there my wife didn't like it really in the house so i found a place to put it out here we'll walk outside and take a look i'll show you it i didn't plumb the building in or hard line it in i just set it up to where we could run a garden hose to the building and there's the drain so inside both valves on the sink are hooked into a y um down to the line so each knob you turn will have water coming out i'm thinking about putting a tankless water heater in because in the wintertime cold water is naturally much colder on your hands and stuff so this is basically just a basic 12 by 24 building and then there's the air conditioner unit on the back side for the walk-in cooler so it's all pretty simple i had alex brick in the foundation um just to give it a more aesthetic aesthetic uh pleasing look and i didn't put a little stoop out in the front with some design to kind of match the uh smokehouse well that's about it hope you'll like it

Channel: Doug Auberry

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Id: 8La3V3bVbPs

Length: 14min 34sec (874 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 12 2020