Brick Offset & Vertical Smoker with Outdoor Kitchen

[Dirtytires]

On your tank, use it till it’s empty. With that said, if your gauges are accurate, it won’t take more than a few minutes once the needle hits zero.

On the flip side, you definitely can get a replacement before it’s completely empty. I now keep a spare full bottle in the shop but would sometimes take mine in for an exchange on a Friday so as not to run out over the weekend when my supplier is closed. Nothing worse than running out of gas on a Saturday morning and wasting a good weekend of welding.

[Cole Leffert]

Looking really good! Can't wait to see the finished product!

[BigPete]

On your tank, use it till it’s empty. With that said, if your gauges are accurate, it won’t take more than a few minutes once the needle hits zero.

On the flip side, you definitely can get a replacement before it’s completely empty. I now keep a spare full bottle in the shop but would sometimes take mine in for an exchange on a Friday so as not to run out over the weekend when my supplier is closed. Nothing worse than running out of gas on a Saturday morning and wasting a good weekend of welding.

Yep, sorely tempted to do this now. I dont want to waste whats left in the tank but dont want to run out either. I guess I can always return the empty bottle to get my deposit back and drop down to 1 bottle once this project is finished.

Looking really good! Can't wait to see the finished product!

Thanks, that makes 2 of us!!! Whoever said I had a lot of work ahead of me was 100% right

[BigPete]

Some really good progress after a recent steel delivery. Took a few hours to knock this up and get or painted and fitted.

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[SheffSmoker]

Top work Pete, looks like you're getting to grips with the new welder now.

[BigPete]

Top work Pete, looks like you're getting to grips with the new welder now.

Aye getting there, still a lot to learn though, think I hit the duty cycle limit earlier today

Figured it'd be rude not to give it a proper test tonight.

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[dacolson]

[BigPete]

Guys, I had planned to make the offset smoker a reverse flow, but I suspect getting removable baffles even close to air tight will be impossible. So my questions are -

1) do the reverse flow baffles need to be air tight or is a little 'leakage' acceptable?
2) if the reverse flow idea is out the window and it becomes a normal offset, am I right in saying that ideally a collector box at the bottom of the chimney should be as close to the level of the grates as best possible?

[BigPete]

Heres a quick sketchup of how the stack could look with a larger collector - purple line is grate level. The circular is the opening radius of a horizontal hatch.

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[dacolson]

Ideally - in my opinion - yes. Most modern pit builders designing standard offsets - Moberg, Mill Scale, Fat Stacks, etc - all have the stack at grate level. There are thousands of others out there that smoke just fine with stacks at the top of the CC so if you’re not able to build it that way, I’m sure it will work out.

[Dirtytires]

Baffle plate needs to be welded in completely. Any leaks will allow heat to escape and possibly create hot spots in the cook chamber. More importantly tho is grease will leak down and is more susceptible to a grease fire.

[BigPete]

Excellent thanks gents, regular offset it is got a solid 7hours cutting and welding in today great progress but the neighbours must hate me!! Will post a few photos tomorrow.

Need to work out a design for cook chamber handle that can the heats of a BBQ not just smoking temps.

[dacolson]

Pay the neighbors off with smoked meat [emoji51]


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[BigPete]

Pay the neighbors off with smoked meat [emoji51]


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Yea I'm going to have to do them a rack of ribs or something.

The damper picture for the vertical smoker

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[SheffSmoker]

Excellent thanks gents, regular offset it is got a solid 7hours cutting and welding in today great progress but the neighbours must hate me!! Will post a few photos tomorrow.

Need to work out a design for cook chamber handle that can the heats of a BBQ not just smoking temps.

I'm using a wooden handle on my firebox door, Pete. Bolted on via a 2" bit of plate welded to the door, Wherever there's a join the heat doesn't seem to conduct as much, it's darkened a bit from first fitting but never any danger of it igniting. Similarly, our old gas BBQ has a plastic handle bolted to the lid!

[BigPete]

Some more progress over the last couple of weeks. Nice to get it in its final resting place too as the base alone without lid or doors is probably around 150-180lbs.

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[dacolson]

Really looking nice BigPete. Huge investment on your pat building a permanent pit like this. It looks super nice. Here’s to hoping it fires as designed. You deserve some killer que for the effort you’ve invested. .

[Big T]

definitely looks killer!

[Cole]

That thing is awesome, imagine a firepit on the ground, friends, all kinds of cold beverages and food!

[BigPete]

Thanks guys for all the help and suggestions to get this far! Just have to make the grills and then it'll be ready for a test.

The wooden handle came out really well, will gets few other photos up shortly including the inside.

[BigPete]

Got the grills, gasket and thermometers done. Obviously had to fire it up to season the grills and then though itd be a waste of charcoal not to at least try it at the same time

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The lid is heavy but don't know if I need a counter balance or not (yet) wife says she does which makes me wonder should I or not After the pork chops were ready I fired in my temp probes and (left and right) and over about 80mins there was only about a 5degC drop without touching anything. Will test the offset draw tomorrow all being well.

[dacolson]

Love the progress! That’s a sharp looking grill. I bet you find a reason to cook everything out there now.


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[BigPete]

Some good progress and a few set backs.

+ Path laid
+Worktop tiled
+Sink & taps fitted
- neighbours complaining about smoke (even after getting free BBQ)
-leak in my plumbing
-lit the BBQ and the gas/heat escaped and crack the tile.

For the last point I was thinking that if I grind back the grout to the BBQ frame and then seal with a high temperature silicon to give a flexible gasket this might work? Any other ideas from anyone?

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[SheffSmoker]

Looking great, Pete!

How much of a gap did you leave between the metal and the tile? It's more than likely thermal expansion of the pit that has cracked the tile by the looks of it. I'd leave an expansion gap and use high temp silicon as you suggested. Wouldn't look out of place in black.

[BigPete]

Looking great, Pete!

How much of a gap did you leave between the metal and the tile? It's more than likely thermal expansion of the pit that has cracked the tile by the looks of it. I'd leave an expansion gap and use high temp silicon as you suggested. Wouldn't look out of place in black.

Thanks it's coming along nicely, just disappointing that any time I use it the neighbour bitches, really puts a damper on it all, especially when all possible options have been done to minimise the impact to them. (Stack as high as could without planning permission etc)

Stupidly in hindsight I hadn't left a gap but did use a flexible high temp group but it certainly wouldn't have as much give as a bead of silicon.