venting an SM900 in the basement

You'll never get it all vented. The house will smell like your cookshack.

The home CS's are not intended for indoor use. Just use it outside, it's well insulated enough, put in on the patio and use it. Many people use them outside all year.

I can testify about cold weather smoking. Short and sweet the cookshack smoker works great in cold weather. I really don't notice any change in cook times either. When the temps are subzero you have to watch that the grease in the pan doesn't pile up to seal up the drain hole. Moving the drip pan around will eliminate this problem. Roger

We've got smokers using the 09 from Maine to WI to Alaska and everywhere in between. Never heard one of them complain about extended smoke times, wind, etc due to cold temps or anything else (besides hurricanes and tornados). My coldest smoke has been in 14 degree weather with 20 MPH wind. Never had a problem. That's a warm spell for MainelyDave. I forget what his cold temp was. Anyway, you don't need to go to the basement. I agree with others, your whole house will smell like smoke.

And........since the CookShack eliminates going outside and adjusting dampers every hour or so, you dont have to worry about being out in the elements so much either. Until, I got my 008 I would never have dreamed I'd be smoking and BBQing year round!

Real men smoke/BBQ year round in all kinds of weather....as long as we cook meat, that's all that matters......Uruff Uruff (Tim the Tool Man)

dan

When I first found this forum I spent many hours looking at all the posts past and present. And I remember one post where the person smoked in the garage had made a hood and pipe vented outside. Even had pictures.

Another post the person stated he took his little smoker to hotels and opened the hotel/motel window and smoked in his room how he got away with it I dunno know.

I am trying to find the post where another guy traded BBQ to a carpenter who built him a cold smoker attachment for the top of his smokette that had pictures too. I wnated to see igf that has held up

Mango,

Do a search on "carpenter" in "all open forums" and you'll find the post about the cold smoker.

Smokin'

I just added 12 x 24 foot onto my detached garage to make my "smok-a-torium". It is 12 x 14 inside with fridg, freezer, 3 hole stainless sink, plenty of cabinet and top space, stuffer, grinder, slicer, and smoker with range hood mounted 4 inches above smoker with visqueen draped down around smoker and I still get the "good" smokin' odor in the room. Not bad out there, but wouldnt want to live with it.

Here are some pics of my home away from home...

Last pic shows the smoker and range hood for venting. Still have the smell of smokin'....

DOH! Grouch Marks just said I missed the secret word for today. I tried cold smoke never thought of carpenter the internal search engine is pretty darn good here.

Thanks SmokinOkie

Here's my Smokette in the garage, which I think Mango remembers... a flexible dryer vent sits an inch above the vent and goes out the window... smells for a day, then goes away.

I too live in New England....and hell...that's the MAIN reason I bought a Cookshack smoker! So I could BBQ all year round.

I've never had a problem with cooking times in the winter...always consistant.

My only regret is that I didn't have the money to buy the 5 shelf unit...but hey...the Smokette is still a big step up from a water smoker.

I used mine in the garage. The entire back wall of my garage is double pane sliding glass doors. All I did was open the garage door about 3 inches, turn on the ceiling fan and crack both sliders in the rear...went to bed. The garage smelled great for the next couple of days but all was fine.