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Topic: Garbage can smoker  (Read 13114 times)

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INSAYN

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The only issue with Zinc fumes is breathing them in.  You can get flu like symptoms and feel like crap in the short term, but you have to be doing something like welding, or something similar to get it hot enough to vaporize in quantity in a given area. 

Zinc's melting point is of the lower end of the metal spectrum it is however quite hot.  In fact it's close to 800ºF, and the boiling point is over 1600ºF. 

At this point you get Zinc Oxide (the white stuff you put on your nose if you're a life gaurd).  Zinc oxide isn't toxic externally, but inhaled in quantity over an extended period of time can be hard on your lungs and nervous system in the long term. 

If you are getting the bulk of the garbage can up to those temperatures, you aren't smoking anything, your torching it.  Briquettes can get up to over 800ºF near their core, and will eventually work off the zinc layer of the garbage can where they sit in direct contact.  You can eliminate this by just putting a layer of rocks, sand or bare steel pan down first.  Again, to have issues you would need to be right over the coals sucking in as much fumes as you could.  Craiggamesh makes a great point that your body needs Zinc naturally, and what little Zinc Oxide you'd ever be able to get from your smoker would be less then what you would take as a supplement to your diet. 

Smoke away!   :violent5:
 

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craig

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Thanks Insayn.

With all the available information, I see nothing but benefits to eating a fish that comes from a garbage can, provided its smoked.


YakontheFly

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I know it is high dollar, but it is a multi-tasker like Alton Brown always recommends...

I have one, and let me tell you.....MMMMMMMM

http://www.biggreenegg.com/

You can smoke with it...   (I can generally keep it around 150-160' F) Though not cold smoke, though I have thought of putting some duct out the top into a smoke box to reduce the heat.   I have the Medium and smoke a Turkey every year for Thanksgiving/Christmas.

You can grill with it, I can sear a steak at over 700' F, or slow cook some ribs at 170-200' F for 6-8 hours.

You can even bake a cake or make pizza in the thing...

Temperature control is awesome, and you can shut it down to save unused charcoal.

The only downside besides cost...  It weighs a friggen ton...

But, MMMMMMM...   Does it cook some food!

YotF


 

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