/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>14817223
Get pic related. You can use a metal trash can lid filled with concrete, or you can find terra cotta bowls that match that diameter. Just drill some holes in the lid and in the bottom for ventilation. You might need to stuff some foil in the holes to control air flow. You can get replacement felt gaskets for the big green egg. A small weber kettle grate will fit down into it a few inches, enough that you can fit a couple of pork butts in there. Get a shitty hot plate and strip all the plastic parts off of it, and rewire it so the rheostat can be used from outside. Put a few inches of lava rock in the bottom. Throw that hot plat element on top of the rock. Get a cheap cast iron skillet and put it on top. Fill that shit with wood chips and turn that fucker on. Hard mode is to control it with an arduino. Congratulations, you just made a smoker for less than a hundred bucks, but with better thermal mass than units much more expensive.