A steel drum and a few plumbing parts make up this no-weld smoker you can build with just a few hours of work. Add meat and smoldering wood—and get ready to feast. By Joe Kohl-Riggs Updated: Jul ...

I constructed my smoker out of 10-ga. sheet steel on a frame of 1-in. thinwall square tubing. One caution about barrels--unless you can acquire a genuine food-grade barrel, make your own.

Want some deep smokey BBQ flavor without shelling out hundreds for a ceramic smoker? For $50 worth of parts and a trip to the hardware store, you can build your own.

How to Build a Clay Pot Smoker. Because you’ll acquire parts to build this homemade smoker from a variety of sources, measure as you go and purchase the parts in the following order: ...

This no-weld plan shows you how to build a smoker out of a 55-gallon drum. Ugly Drum Smokers (or UDS for short) are just what they sound like: ugly. And made out of a 55-gallon drum.

The cost of the build will vary depending on your resourcefulness and handyman skills. By the time you're done, you can easily spend $200 in parts for this DIY project. Has a high capacity for its ...

Aaron Palmer | Low n Slow Basics. How to Build the Oklahoma Joe's Reverse Flow Longhorn Offset Smoker. Posted: May 16, 2025 | Last updated: May 16, 2025 ...

The Weber Smoque Pellet Smoker, Reviewed It hits the sweet spot in size. The Weber Smoque measures just over 3 feet wide, which didn’t hog a significant amount of real estate on my patio.

Hudson used a set of plans while Jacob and his crew made the smoker trailer from suggestions from the sponsor. The trailer build cost: “$3,300,” Long said. Some projects, like Hudson’s coop, go to ...

This build follows the very successful smoker [Brett] built last year. This year, he’s using the same toaster oven heating elements, only cut down to make the heater smaller and more efficient.

Andrew Brown: How did you get into building smokers? ... As you can imagine, the refinery contains a lot of the parts one would need to build a smoker. So we decided to do that.