will a mod 50 dehydrate?

I make jerky in my smokette alot. Do a forum search for jerky or go to www.himtnjerky.com

Smokin Tex has just come out with a product for this purpose and it would work with the cookshack.

it is a very, very powerful fan that you place on the chimney of the smokin tex or cookshack - you use it after you have smoked your jerky - how it works is that you make sure your smoke box is empty and set the temperature at about 130 or 140 and turn the fan on - it sucks the hot air up the drip hole and passes it over the jerky or sausage - and hence it dehydrates it.

I ordered one and it is due to arrive on Wednesday it was $82.00 and is a new design from one they had out a few years ago.

I will post how it works after i try it

you are a champion onesharp. i'll get onto smokintex and sort 'im out.

Wouldn't that temp be too much in the bad range. I don't think many people use a cure that would help stay off the bad guys.

I would think you could go to radioshack and build one.
1. Fan
2. Box to put it in
3. Clear rubber tube from home depot(goes from box to cookshack.
4. Extension cord cut at one end.
5. Clear calk to make waterproof.
6. Rubber feet to put on the side of the fan to raise the box off the counter.


Since the fan is on the bottom, you are good for the rain.


I bet you can make it for about $15 - $20

beeeeerrrruh!! we get the simpsons here too!!! (in oz)

Well I got the Jerky Dryer from UPS today - it seems like a pretty simple device. It is a tubular stainless steel casing with a foam type filter and a steel filter (kinda like the ones in oven hoods), and a fan. The fan was not as strong as i thought it would be - but it draws air through the smoker very well. I have some jerky marinating in the fridge as we speak - will be smokin' and dryn' it in the morning. Will post how it turns out.

onesharp.
chuck some halved tomatoes in too will ya. love to know 'ow they go.

onesharp - remember to take some photos if possible. Thanks!

Well the jerky dryer worked good. This is what i did - I marinated thinly sliced stips of venison in a soy sause type recipe. I put the slices the four top racks of the smoker and used some plastic jerky racks that i bought on line right over the racks that came with the smoker. I smoked the jerky with 3 oz of Hickory for about 6 hours @ 175. I then let the smoker cool down and emptied the wood box and placed the jerky dyer on top turned it on and set the temp at 130 - I figured it would take about 4 hours to dry out the meat - well - after 2 hours i checked it and it was dryer than i usually like it. So it does work well.

I do think that dmaclaren is probably right though - if someone was handy with electonics they could probably make something that would work too. Basically what this jerky dyer does is pull air through the drain hole at the bottom of the smoker through the chimney hole on top.

I won't post any pictures of it, since i probably should not be promoting a competitors product in this forum. The product, however is an accessory that is not available from cookshack - so i hope no harm was done to cookshack by this posting. I do appreciate cookshack allowing people to post in his forum who do not own a cookshack.

Nope, no harm as long as we're not trying to sell smokers for competitors or their parts. Open discussion about tools is fine, but we usually draw the line when we talk about mods to the CS that will violate warranties.

Open ideas are welcome, never know what might come of them.

Smokin'