I was watching a barbecue video awhile ago and saw an old smoker. Someone made it with bricks and they had a long pipe between the firebox and the main chamber. It gave me an idea to add a firebox to the Joe with a long pipe between to regulate temperature from the fire. This would essentially make the Joe an offset smoker. I don’t even think it would be very hard to do. Build a fire box with bricks and run a steel pipe about 2 meters to the intake. I’m not sure if I would need to make a chimney to help draw the air through or not. Could be a great project.
by nicko3088
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This kind of setup looks like a cold smoker to me though. The black box has an actual fire with wood (or charcoal with chunks), as opposed to a cold smoke generator with dust in the cabin, but the long pipe allows the smoke/air to cool down before it reaches the cabin.
For an actual (hot) offset smoker, that pipe looks way too long to me and you’ll lose a ton of heat.
I have a Joe jr sitting next to a big Joe. Ive thought about this many times (using the jr as the fire box for the big Joe). Have drawn up many plans on my iPad while sitting on the patio drinking a beer during a long smoke. Someday I’ll get around to trying it out.
I guess I could understand if it was cold smoking and you just didn’t want to use the tube method but I’m kinda lost on what exactly your trying to achieve here that you can’t already do with the joe? Is it just the size of the Firebox so you can use log splits? Not trying to be rude just trying to wrap my head around this lol