Spied on how a neighbor has a smokehouse for cold smoking

I have noticed more than once that my neighbor smokes meat or fish on the plot, because the smell from this smoking reaches through the fence to the very house. I have a small welded hot smoker in the form of a box with a lid. But it is impossible to cook cold smoked products in it, which gives the best aroma and such products can be stored for a long time.

Therefore, one spring day, when almost all the snow had melted, I went up to a neighbor to get to know him better and asked him to see the smokehouse. He turned out to be the kindest man who did not speak much, but without further ado led me to the far end of his garden. There I was surprised to see a rather awkward structure. This was his smokehouse.

It consisted of an iron stove with a door welded from a thick sheet. Firewood is put into the stove, as the neighbor said - only hardwood. Apple, mountain ash, currant and other fruit trees are especially suitable. In the absence of such, aspen is also suitable. But the neighbor has a good supply in the yard - for several years!

The stove stood all winter, of course, in the garden, under the open sky, so it is completely rusty and looks very ugly.

From the stove, starting at a right angle, there is a long pipe made of sheet iron. Diameter 35-40 centimeters, length about 4 meters. The pipe is installed on brick supports. The far end of the pipe ends at the bottom of the body of the old refrigerator. The pipe is also rusty.

In the refrigerator itself, all the insides have been removed and transverse bars are installed instead of shelves. Some kind of product is suspended on these rungs with the help of wire hooks. It can be fish, bacon, chicken. Something that needs to be smoked for at least 1-2 days until fully cooked.

A neighbor said that he marinates chicken and bacon, and then boils until half cooked. And only after that begins to smoke. Thus, the product is obtained with 100% certainty completely ready-to-eat, not half-baked.

In order not to be unfounded, the neighbor said that he would now give smoked bacon for a sample. And when we tried it at home, we decided that we would definitely order the master of another such delicacy.

A neighbor said that he has a source of lard and meat - a relative who raises pigs and broilers. This business is quite profitable if there is a sale. Therefore, the neighbor gave a piece for a sample, so that we would then order him for money. Honestly, 450 rubles per kilogram for such delicious, refined, simple, lard is not at all expensive.

So, although his smokehouse looks very ugly, all technologies are followed in it, the process is going as it should and the products are very tasty. It happens the other way around - everything glitters and sparkles, but it is impossible to eat.