"WiScottsin" > wrote in message
...
> I'm considering making some summer sausage out of a bunch of ground
venison
> that I have in the freezer, using my WSM. We used to make it on my great
> uncles farm in very large quantities, and smoke in a great old offset
smoker
> with a small barrel stove providing smoke for an old refirigerator that
was
> lined with steel. Unfortunatley, he and the farm are not with us anymore.
>
> I was reading on the webervirtualbullet.com site and saw the mod for
> constructing a separate cardboard box and tube devices, and I trust that
> works as I've gotten good advice from the other parts of the site.
>
> But I'm wondering if anyone has ever tried cold smoking in the WSM without
a
> separate "smokebox". Either using wood/charcoal for fuel or possibly
> slapping an electric hotplate on the charcoal grate with some
chunks/chips?
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Take a look at this: http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/coldsmoker.html