"f/256" > wrote...
>
> "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
>
>

Thanks, but if you read my post a little more closely you'll see that I
already looked at the VWB link and was wondering if anyone had success cold
smoking without a separate fire/smoke-box.