smoker oven - the grand plan

Hi and welcome to this blog, I will detail through this blog how to build a tandoor oven as cheaply as possible.

The blog will contain step by step images and descriptions of what I do and what pitfalls I end up with plus how I solve them.

I'll also be including links to youtube videos that are relevent as well as links to others websites that I have found that you may be interested in.

If you don't belive me then just have a look at my recent wood fired pizza blog: http://free-pizza-oven.blogspot.com/ , as i am writing this I have done 98 posts and countless images.

NOW for the plan, well the pizza oven was a sunday project just like this one will be so that pizza oven took me close to 9 months to complete ! well, i'd never in my life laid a brick before so it was simply no time schedule.

NOW with my new skills this one should happen ALOT quicker.

GRAND PLAN: After much research I have worked out how to combine a Tandoor oven and a Smoker oven !!! YEP, thats what I'm going to attempt. I have limited room and I am a FAN of Indian cooking, far more so then smoking food as I actually dislike it but the oven is at the "inlaws" and they love smoked food.

My design is based on a few webs i have seen, heres the links with my description of them:

http://www.killdawabbit.com/ebay/tandoorOven.htm , this is pretty much what the bottom section will be like for my tandoor and then I'll build a smoker on top. Theres a few different aspects to this design that I will change but more on that as i go.

http://piers.thompson.users.btopenworld.com/insulating.html and this
http://www.villagok.dk/tandoor/ are very similar and all good info

http://oildrumtandoor.blogspot.com/ : VERY informative website on building a oil drum tandoor, but i think the use of clay "sheets" and the problems with joining them so it doesn't crack is a bit risky. It would be interesting to see if its still functioning after a few years?

http://www.thefarm.org/charities/i4at/surv/tandoor.htm , a small website but really making a tandoor basically and quickly.

http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/refractories.html , if you are interested in creating your own castable concrete.

NOW for some smoker oven links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z59jLWJkD28 , this is a great vid on setting your wood/heat up for smoking, forget about the cooking..pay attention to what he's saying about the burning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwZ5TmKU5FM&feature=channel , same guy, its a long vid but worth it in the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4hrcRNx_i4&feature=channel , same guy , how to build his smoker oven.

SO anyway the end result will be what it will be so stay tuned. Its going to be ALOT of brick laying, some welding, terracotta clay pot, backyard clay, vermiculite, cement and some sort of chimney...sounds like fun.