by aris » Mon Feb 14, 2005 1:01 pm
I don't think the biltongbox would be good for smoke. For one, the biltongbox has lots of holes in it to add in the dehydration process - so i'd think you would have to cover these up somehow. Also, biltong is not traditionally smoked at all - so yet another reason not to use the box for smoking.
I quite like the idea of using an old wine barrel as a smoking chamber as was done on the River Cottage tv show in the UK recently. You just need some sort of external box to burn the wood, and then some sort of pipe from the 'hot box' to the cold smoking box. On the show they used chimney flue, which sounds ideal as it is designed to handle high heats, and is probably pretty cheap from a builders merchant.