How to Build Electric Smokers

An electric smoker can give you an easy way to smoke meats in the comfort of your own home. This is a popular option during the summer months. Purchasing an electric smoker can be expensive, but with a few simple materials you can make your own for a fraction of the cost.

Knowing how to properly build an electric smoker is a great way for you to save money and make delicious meals.

What You’ll Need:

• Thermometer


• Small Grill Grate


• Two Large Ceramic Flower Pots


• Three Large Grill Grates


• Two Cinder Blocks


• Galvanized Steel Trash Can


• Electric Burner


• Two Pie Tins


• Wood Pellets

1. Put your electric burner onto the bottom of one of your ceramic pots. Put your electrical plug through the hole in the pot. Put the pot up on the cinder blocks and be sure that it is properly centered.


2. Put a pie tin on the burner and put half a cup of pellets in it for smaller meals and a full cup for large meals. Put the grill grate into your pot directly over the burner. Place the other pie tin onto the smaller grate and use it for water.


3. Put the big grill grate over your small grill grate. Put one flower pot over the other and put the thermometer into the vent hole of the one on the bottom.


4. Fill up your water pie tin with the necessary amount of water and bigger grill grate for your meats.


5. Should you decide to go with a metal electric smoker, then get a trash can and drill a hole in the bottom of it. A burner should be put inside of the can with the cord going out of the drilled hole.


6. Put the trash can on cinder blocks and drill 4 different holes into the lid. Make three of the holes an inch and the other one half an inch. Drill additional holes along the bottom, a total of 6 one inch holes should be there for oxygen.